On Tuesday the 25th of August 2026, we lost Vera. She came to us in October 2025, three and a half weeks old, bright eyed, and unable to walk. Her tail had been docked with a knife, the way it is done to millions of lambs in Australia every year, almost always without pain relief. Completely legal. Completely routine. For Vera, it was the beginning of a crisis that would last her whole life. Bacteria entered the wound and moved into her bloodstream, attacking her joints and d

The pigs of Big Jack Mountain On the 19th June, 2026, we said goodbye to Eamon, the last of three pigs who came to us in the summer that much of eastern Australia caught fire. With him gone, it feels like the right time to tell you their whole story, Clovis, Basil and Eamon, because it has sat with me for six years now, and because it says something I think is worth saying out loud. The summer of 2019 into 2020 is one a lot of us would rather forget and none of us can. The dr

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