Here is one tail I was so lucky to experience the first week in April during my morning feeding.

This story begins with introductions:
Sabine is a beautiful horse whose stall is next to Magdie & Nunzi’s- a pair of rescued pink pot bellied pigs. Sabine has problems with her feet and has to be coaxed outside of her stall. The more she exercises her feet, the better they feel.

All winter Magdie and Nunzi come into Sabine’s stall to help her eat her hay. They are buddies, you see, and Sabine is so kind to share her hay with them.

Now that warmer weather is here, we take the hay outside and place it in several areas in the pasture in order to get Sabine to move around. Well, Sabine ate her ‘bucket food’ and then laid down in her stall instead of heading outside to eat her hay.

I started sweeping and happened to look into Sabine’s stall only to find Magdie dragging all of Sabine's hay, which I had set out in the pasture, into her stall and placing it right by Sabine's face as if to say “Please eat this, it will make you feel better.” Within a half hour, Sabine was surrounded by all of her hay.

Now, Magdie could have just devoured the hay outside or dragged the hay into her and Nunzi’s stall, but, no, she decided to take care of her friend. I feel so lucky to have experienced one animal clearly caring for another. Both animals rescued from neglect and abuse are now best friends living out their lives in peace, love and contentment at the sanctuary.

Volunteering at Indraloka Animal Sanctuary feeds your soul.

We are located in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania, a place called Mehoopany.

Carol Gerzarowski
Tunkhannock, PA