Ikkos Equine Sanctuary and Animal Haven Petting Farm
We are now offering you a unique in the world opportunity.
You could be involved with Ikkos Equine Sanctuary and Animal Haven Petting Farm AND The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project in a very special way to help us pioneer a new project - A project that will save many animals lives!!!
We can't do it without your support!
Please contact me for more information.
You could be involved with Ikkos Equine Sanctuary and Animal Haven Petting Farm AND The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project in a very special way to help us pioneer a new project - A project that will save many animals lives!!!
We can't do it without your support!
Please contact me for more information.
Please don't buy from this breeder!!!
This message has been sent on to KUSA about a very bad breeder and my awful story with my puppies - please feel free to pass it on to prevent people from buying pups from this lady she is a true monster and needs to be stopped – Laura has petitioned to KUSA along with many other people to get her 'facility' checked out by animal welfare and this will hopefully happen soon :-)
“I want everyone to know my story of our poor Bomani and Simba and Amara
It is very upsetting that we lost a puppy (Bomani) and Simba was on deaths door when he arrived but please tell people about this breeder and help stop her from breeding!"
"I am contacting you in regards to Zoetje Aucamp (Kuruman area South Africa) and the service she provided with our Labrador retriever puppies. I want to make people aware of this lady and the bad experiences I and many other people have had after buying puppies from her and to discourage people from buying from her and to stop her from breeding altogether.
It was October 2008 we bought 2 Labrador retriever puppies from Zoetje. A male and a female from separate litters. The male we called Bomani and the female we called Amara.The delivery date was delayed twice by Zoetje - they were flying from Kuruman to George.The puppies looked healthy when they arrived although Amara was half the size of Bomani and her birth date had been changed in her inoculation passport. She was so small I even wondered if she was 8 weeks and it was very suspect that the date in her inoculation book had been changed.
Bomani was due to have his 2nd inoculation the day before he flew to us and Zoetje did not get this done. We had him inoculated the day after he arrived and he seemed fine.
After 11 days he started to get sick and after 1 day I took him straight to the vet - they put him on a drip and kept him overnight and did absolutely everything they could - no expenses spared but sadly he died over night and they concluded it was some sort of virus. We were devastated! The vet also mentioned that the inoculations he had been given before he arrived with us were not all the correct dose so his immune system was lowered because of this. He died at only 10 weeks old.
2 days later we contacted Zoetje and told her the news but she said that he was fine when he left her and there wasn’t a lot she could do. I said that we needed another puppy as a playmate for Amara as she was very lonely and she sent me some pictures of 3 different puppies she had available. She said she had no puppies left of her own but her brother had 2 Labrador retriever cross golden retrievers in Johannesburg as he was moving away and couldn’t take them. I said
we wanted a young purebred the same age as Amara. She sent me a picture of a young male apparently a 10 week old purebred lab in Johannesburg. I said we would take him.
We waited 2 weeks for the new pup and again the delivery date was postponed twice.I got there and the guy at the airport asked if I was sure it was a small puppy, I said yes I was sure and asked why, he said the box seemed very heavy for a small puppy but I thought nothing more of it.He brought out a large wooden box with no newspaper, blankets, or water in it and the puppy was so large he couldn’t even sit or stand without being crouched over.
We called him Simba
He was petrified and couldn’t even walk he was so scared and so emaciated. His ribs and hips were sticking out and he had scars on his face.I managed to get him from the crate and carried him to the car. He threw up all the way home and was so petrified he would flinch if I touched him.
He came with no papers at all - no pedigree or inoculation certificate so while at the airport I called Zoetje and asked where these documents were as she assured me they would be there. She said she would send them to me, we are still waiting for these after repeated requests for her to send them to us. I asked her when he was inoculated and with what and she didn’t know and also asked when he was dewormed and she said she didn’t think he had been. We took him straight to the vet and had him inoculated and dewormed and they confirmed that he was a 4-month-old Labrador retriever cross great Dane!
Both puppies have problems with their hips as confirmed by my vet. (read on to find the true tragedy of simba - he has severe hip dysplasia at 9 months old - the operations he will need when he is 18 months old - if he manages on pain killers and isnt put to sleep before then will cost between 20,000 and 30,000 rand)
We received no pedigrees after various attempts to get them from Zoetje. She sent 2 pedigrees both for the same dog a liver Labrador male - our labs are both golden. The copies were in such bad resolution you could barely make out anything on them at all.
I want to see her stopped from breeding, it is not just me that has had horrific experiences like this. No one should have to lose such a sweet innocent life and go through the heartache I did when we lost our Bomani I was simply devastated and still miss him every day. Please stop other people from having to go through this awful experience, make people aware of this ladies tricks and tell them to buy puppies elsewhere and if people stop buying her puppies maybe she will stop breeding - I hope."
WE HAVE MANY OTHER EMAILS FROM SHOCKED AND DISGUSTED CUSTOMERS OF THIS BREEDER. (ALSO OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR PUPPIES THEY GOT FROM THIS LADY)
“I want everyone to know my story of our poor Bomani and Simba and Amara
It is very upsetting that we lost a puppy (Bomani) and Simba was on deaths door when he arrived but please tell people about this breeder and help stop her from breeding!"
"I am contacting you in regards to Zoetje Aucamp (Kuruman area South Africa) and the service she provided with our Labrador retriever puppies. I want to make people aware of this lady and the bad experiences I and many other people have had after buying puppies from her and to discourage people from buying from her and to stop her from breeding altogether.
It was October 2008 we bought 2 Labrador retriever puppies from Zoetje. A male and a female from separate litters. The male we called Bomani and the female we called Amara.The delivery date was delayed twice by Zoetje - they were flying from Kuruman to George.The puppies looked healthy when they arrived although Amara was half the size of Bomani and her birth date had been changed in her inoculation passport. She was so small I even wondered if she was 8 weeks and it was very suspect that the date in her inoculation book had been changed.
Bomani was due to have his 2nd inoculation the day before he flew to us and Zoetje did not get this done. We had him inoculated the day after he arrived and he seemed fine.
After 11 days he started to get sick and after 1 day I took him straight to the vet - they put him on a drip and kept him overnight and did absolutely everything they could - no expenses spared but sadly he died over night and they concluded it was some sort of virus. We were devastated! The vet also mentioned that the inoculations he had been given before he arrived with us were not all the correct dose so his immune system was lowered because of this. He died at only 10 weeks old.
2 days later we contacted Zoetje and told her the news but she said that he was fine when he left her and there wasn’t a lot she could do. I said that we needed another puppy as a playmate for Amara as she was very lonely and she sent me some pictures of 3 different puppies she had available. She said she had no puppies left of her own but her brother had 2 Labrador retriever cross golden retrievers in Johannesburg as he was moving away and couldn’t take them. I said
we wanted a young purebred the same age as Amara. She sent me a picture of a young male apparently a 10 week old purebred lab in Johannesburg. I said we would take him.
We waited 2 weeks for the new pup and again the delivery date was postponed twice.I got there and the guy at the airport asked if I was sure it was a small puppy, I said yes I was sure and asked why, he said the box seemed very heavy for a small puppy but I thought nothing more of it.He brought out a large wooden box with no newspaper, blankets, or water in it and the puppy was so large he couldn’t even sit or stand without being crouched over.
We called him Simba
He was petrified and couldn’t even walk he was so scared and so emaciated. His ribs and hips were sticking out and he had scars on his face.I managed to get him from the crate and carried him to the car. He threw up all the way home and was so petrified he would flinch if I touched him.
He came with no papers at all - no pedigree or inoculation certificate so while at the airport I called Zoetje and asked where these documents were as she assured me they would be there. She said she would send them to me, we are still waiting for these after repeated requests for her to send them to us. I asked her when he was inoculated and with what and she didn’t know and also asked when he was dewormed and she said she didn’t think he had been. We took him straight to the vet and had him inoculated and dewormed and they confirmed that he was a 4-month-old Labrador retriever cross great Dane!
Both puppies have problems with their hips as confirmed by my vet. (read on to find the true tragedy of simba - he has severe hip dysplasia at 9 months old - the operations he will need when he is 18 months old - if he manages on pain killers and isnt put to sleep before then will cost between 20,000 and 30,000 rand)
We received no pedigrees after various attempts to get them from Zoetje. She sent 2 pedigrees both for the same dog a liver Labrador male - our labs are both golden. The copies were in such bad resolution you could barely make out anything on them at all.
I want to see her stopped from breeding, it is not just me that has had horrific experiences like this. No one should have to lose such a sweet innocent life and go through the heartache I did when we lost our Bomani I was simply devastated and still miss him every day. Please stop other people from having to go through this awful experience, make people aware of this ladies tricks and tell them to buy puppies elsewhere and if people stop buying her puppies maybe she will stop breeding - I hope."
WE HAVE MANY OTHER EMAILS FROM SHOCKED AND DISGUSTED CUSTOMERS OF THIS BREEDER. (ALSO OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR PUPPIES THEY GOT FROM THIS LADY)
Simba when he arrived and our poor Bomani (rest in peace our little warrior).
Save a life-Adopt from an animal shelter!!!
Here is a letter posted in a magazine which i would like as many people as possible to read - so people know that rescuing an animal from an animal shelter makes such a huge difference and does save lives!!!
This letter was written by a shelter manager
"I think our society needs a huge 'wake up' call. As a shelter manager, i am going to share a little insight with you all..... First off, all breeders and puppy or kitten agents should be made to work in the back of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw the life drain from sad, confused eyes, you would change your mind about breeding and selling to people you don't even know. that puppy you just sold could end up in my shelter when he's no longer cute. So how would you feel if you knew that there is a 90% chance that he will never walk out of the shelter? purebreed or not!
The most common excuses i hear are: 'we are moving and we can't take our dog (or cat)' Really? Where are you moving to that doesn't allow pets? Or they say: 'The dog got bigger than we thought it would' How big did you think a German Shepherd would get? 'We don't have time for her' Really? I work a 10 to 12 hour day and still have time for my six dogs! 'She's tearing up our yard' How about making her a part of your family?
People dump their pets here in the hope that they'll get adopted. But let me tell you, your pet will be confined to a small run in a room with about 25 other barking or crying animals. He will have to relieve himself where he eats and sleeps. He will be depressed and he will cry constantly for the family that abandoned him/
If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to take him for a walk. If i don't, your pet won't get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of his pen with a hig-powered hose.
If your dog doesn't get adopted within 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the shelter isn't full and your dog is good enough and of a desireable enough breed, it may get a stay of execution, but not for long. Here's a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being 'put down'.
First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for a walk - happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to 'the room'. Every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are let in there. It's strange, but it happens with every one of them.
Your dog or cat will be restrained and held down. Then a euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process. They will find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the 'pink stuff'. Hopefully your pet doesn't panic from being restrained and jerk. They don't all just 'go to sleep'. Sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.
I hope that those of you that have read this are bawling your eyes out and can't get the pictures out of your head. I deal with this every day on the way home from work, i hate my job, i hate that it exists and i hate that it will always be there unless you people make some changes and realise that the lives you are affecting go much farther than the pets you dump at a shelter!"
This letter was written by a shelter manager
"I think our society needs a huge 'wake up' call. As a shelter manager, i am going to share a little insight with you all..... First off, all breeders and puppy or kitten agents should be made to work in the back of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw the life drain from sad, confused eyes, you would change your mind about breeding and selling to people you don't even know. that puppy you just sold could end up in my shelter when he's no longer cute. So how would you feel if you knew that there is a 90% chance that he will never walk out of the shelter? purebreed or not!
The most common excuses i hear are: 'we are moving and we can't take our dog (or cat)' Really? Where are you moving to that doesn't allow pets? Or they say: 'The dog got bigger than we thought it would' How big did you think a German Shepherd would get? 'We don't have time for her' Really? I work a 10 to 12 hour day and still have time for my six dogs! 'She's tearing up our yard' How about making her a part of your family?
People dump their pets here in the hope that they'll get adopted. But let me tell you, your pet will be confined to a small run in a room with about 25 other barking or crying animals. He will have to relieve himself where he eats and sleeps. He will be depressed and he will cry constantly for the family that abandoned him/
If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to take him for a walk. If i don't, your pet won't get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of his pen with a hig-powered hose.
If your dog doesn't get adopted within 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the shelter isn't full and your dog is good enough and of a desireable enough breed, it may get a stay of execution, but not for long. Here's a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being 'put down'.
First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for a walk - happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to 'the room'. Every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are let in there. It's strange, but it happens with every one of them.
Your dog or cat will be restrained and held down. Then a euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process. They will find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the 'pink stuff'. Hopefully your pet doesn't panic from being restrained and jerk. They don't all just 'go to sleep'. Sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.
I hope that those of you that have read this are bawling your eyes out and can't get the pictures out of your head. I deal with this every day on the way home from work, i hate my job, i hate that it exists and i hate that it will always be there unless you people make some changes and realise that the lives you are affecting go much farther than the pets you dump at a shelter!"
A tragic tale of a cow due for slaughter.
The tragic story of a cow due for slaughter that was left to suffer in agony for hours before eventually being slaughtered!
Downed cow: This story will change your life!
The truck carrying this cow was unloaded at Walton Stockyards in Kentucky one September morning. After the other animals were removed from the truck, she was left behind, unable to move. Stockyard workers used customary electric prods in her ear to try to get her out of the truck, then they beat her and kicked her in the face, ribs, and back, but she still didn’t move. They tied a rope around her neck, tied the other end to a post in the ground, and drove the truck away. The cow was dragged along the floor of the truck and fell to the ground, breaking both her hind legs and her pelvis in the process. She remained this way until 7:30 that evening.
For the first three hours, she lay in the hot sun crying out. Periodically, when she urinated or defecated, she used her front legs to drag herself along the gravel roadway to a clean spot. She also tried to crawl to a shaded area, but she was unable to move far enough. Altogether, she only managed to crawl between 13 and 14 yards. The stockyard employees wouldn’t allow her any drinking water; the only water she received was given to her by Jessie Pierce, a local animal rights activist. After she was contacted by a woman who witnessed the incident, Jessie arrived at noon. Stockyard workers did not cooperate to help her, so she called the Kenton County police. A police officer arrived but was instructed by his superiors to do nothing; he left at 1 p.m. The stockyard operator informed Jessie that he had permission from the insurance company to kill the cow but wouldn’t do it until Jessie left. Although doubtful that he would keep his word, Jessie left at 3. She returned at 4:30 and found the stockyard deserted. Three dogs were attacking the cow, who was still alive. She had suffered a number of bite wounds, and her drinking water had been removed. Jessie contacted the state police. Four officers arrived at 5:30. State trooper Jan Wuchner wanted to shoot the cow but was told that a veterinarian should kill her. The facility’s two veterinarians would not euthanize her; they claimed that in order to preserve the value of the meat, the cow could not be destroyed. A butcher eventually arrived at 7:30 and shot the cow. Her body was purchased for $307.50.
When the stockyard operator was questioned by a reporter from The Kentucky Post, he stated, “We didn't do a damned thing to it,” and referred to the attention given to the cow by humane workers and police as “bullcrap.” He laughed throughout the interview, saying that there was nothing wrong with the way that the cow was treated.
This is not an isolated case. It is so common that animals in this condition are known in the meat industry as “downers.” According to the meat industry’s own statistics, each year, millions of chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows arrive at the slaughterhouse either dead or too sick or injured to walk. The animals become severely crippled or ill after a lifetime of abuse in factory farms and a very difficult journey to the slaughterhouse, during which they are shipped through all weather extremes without any food or water. Factory farms don’t provide individualized medical care or humane euthanasia to sick animals: It’s cheaper to let the animals suffer and eventually die. The suffering caused by the meat, egg, and dairy industries’ cost-cutting measures is enormous. The egg industry, for example, confines between five and 11 birds to small wire battery cages, despite the fact that the extreme crowding causes some of the birds to get sick and die. Egg-industry expert Bernard Rollin sums up the simple, cold-hearted reasoning of egg factory-farm operators by saying that “chickens are cheap, cages are expensive.”
Unable to move or stand after suffering for her whole life in a factory farm, this pig was left to die.
After PETA brought much-needed attention to this issue, the Kenton County Police Department adopted a policy requiring that euthanasia be performed on all downed animals immediately, whether they are on the farm, in transit, or at the slaughterhouse. Many other law enforcement agencies don’t have such policies, and downed animals continue to suffer everywhere. It is up to the public to demand change in how the meat, egg, and dairy industries treat animals, and it is up to consumers to refuse to purchase the products of this miserable industry. Otherwise, many more animals will continue to suffer the same agonizing fate of this nameless cow.
What You Can DO
Please help prevent unnecessary suffering by adopting a vegetarian diet. A vegetarian saves more than 100 animals each year. Sign up for our “30 Day Veg Pledge,” and we’ll help you every step of the way!
For the first three hours, she lay in the hot sun crying out. Periodically, when she urinated or defecated, she used her front legs to drag herself along the gravel roadway to a clean spot. She also tried to crawl to a shaded area, but she was unable to move far enough. Altogether, she only managed to crawl between 13 and 14 yards. The stockyard employees wouldn’t allow her any drinking water; the only water she received was given to her by Jessie Pierce, a local animal rights activist. After she was contacted by a woman who witnessed the incident, Jessie arrived at noon. Stockyard workers did not cooperate to help her, so she called the Kenton County police. A police officer arrived but was instructed by his superiors to do nothing; he left at 1 p.m. The stockyard operator informed Jessie that he had permission from the insurance company to kill the cow but wouldn’t do it until Jessie left. Although doubtful that he would keep his word, Jessie left at 3. She returned at 4:30 and found the stockyard deserted. Three dogs were attacking the cow, who was still alive. She had suffered a number of bite wounds, and her drinking water had been removed. Jessie contacted the state police. Four officers arrived at 5:30. State trooper Jan Wuchner wanted to shoot the cow but was told that a veterinarian should kill her. The facility’s two veterinarians would not euthanize her; they claimed that in order to preserve the value of the meat, the cow could not be destroyed. A butcher eventually arrived at 7:30 and shot the cow. Her body was purchased for $307.50.
When the stockyard operator was questioned by a reporter from The Kentucky Post, he stated, “We didn't do a damned thing to it,” and referred to the attention given to the cow by humane workers and police as “bullcrap.” He laughed throughout the interview, saying that there was nothing wrong with the way that the cow was treated.
This is not an isolated case. It is so common that animals in this condition are known in the meat industry as “downers.” According to the meat industry’s own statistics, each year, millions of chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows arrive at the slaughterhouse either dead or too sick or injured to walk. The animals become severely crippled or ill after a lifetime of abuse in factory farms and a very difficult journey to the slaughterhouse, during which they are shipped through all weather extremes without any food or water. Factory farms don’t provide individualized medical care or humane euthanasia to sick animals: It’s cheaper to let the animals suffer and eventually die. The suffering caused by the meat, egg, and dairy industries’ cost-cutting measures is enormous. The egg industry, for example, confines between five and 11 birds to small wire battery cages, despite the fact that the extreme crowding causes some of the birds to get sick and die. Egg-industry expert Bernard Rollin sums up the simple, cold-hearted reasoning of egg factory-farm operators by saying that “chickens are cheap, cages are expensive.”
Unable to move or stand after suffering for her whole life in a factory farm, this pig was left to die.
After PETA brought much-needed attention to this issue, the Kenton County Police Department adopted a policy requiring that euthanasia be performed on all downed animals immediately, whether they are on the farm, in transit, or at the slaughterhouse. Many other law enforcement agencies don’t have such policies, and downed animals continue to suffer everywhere. It is up to the public to demand change in how the meat, egg, and dairy industries treat animals, and it is up to consumers to refuse to purchase the products of this miserable industry. Otherwise, many more animals will continue to suffer the same agonizing fate of this nameless cow.
What You Can DO
Please help prevent unnecessary suffering by adopting a vegetarian diet. A vegetarian saves more than 100 animals each year. Sign up for our “30 Day Veg Pledge,” and we’ll help you every step of the way!
This isn't an isolated case!
Unable to move or stand after suffering for her whole life in a factory farm, this pig was left to die!
Each year, millions of chickens, turkeys, pigs and cows arrive at the slaughterhouse either dead or too sick or injured to walk! Truly unbelievable and heartbreaking!
Each year, millions of chickens, turkeys, pigs and cows arrive at the slaughterhouse either dead or too sick or injured to walk! Truly unbelievable and heartbreaking!