Welcome
Welcome to the website for The Retreat Animal Rescue. The following pages provide information about us, our work and ways that you can help us to help animals in need.
Summer 2010 Newsletter
We have now completed and mailed out our summer 2010 newsletter. If you would like to read this newsletter which, in addition to our usual features, includes articles on pigeon recovery and the suffering of fish you can click on Newsletters and Leaflet.
The Retreat visits V-Bites 1st Birthday Celebrations
On 4 July the Retreat travelled down to Hove to support Heather Mills' as her vegan cafe, V-Bites, celebrated it's 1st Birthday. You can watch a short video of the day on our "Retreat Videos" page.
The Retreat on television
In April we appeared on Channel Five news as part of a report on stray dogs. It took a while, but finally we managed to get hold of a copy of the report. You can view it on our new "Retreat Videos" page.
There is no such thing as humane slaughter
As you may know the Retreat Animal Rescue is a vegan run centre where we care for a wide range of animals including a large number of farmed animals. We also try to make people aware of the cruelty in the food industry. We would therefore urge you to take a look at a report by the national group Animal Aid following their investigation into abattoirs. There are also films showing footage taken covertly by the group at an abattoir in Dorset. Films can also be seen from other slaughterhouses as part of the investigation.
One clip from an Animal Aid film shows a lamb trying to suckle her mother as she is being stunned. The film continues with the lamb trying to follow her as she is dragged away to have her throat cut. When we hear horrific stories like this and see the suffering of these poor souls we look at the wonderful creatures that live with us at the Retreat and think how close they were to suffering the same horrors.
This does not make pleasant viewing but we believe that people should be aware of this suffering and this will hopefully encourage people to consider changing to a more compassionate lifestyle by turning vegetarian or vegan.
You can see this report by clicking on the following link -
Animal Aid investigation
Heather Mills becomes our Patron
We are delighted to announce that Heather has agreed to become a patron of the Retreat. For further details please click on our news page.
Charity shop opens to raise funds for the Retreat
A shop opened on the 6th November to raise much needed funds for ourselves in Petts Wood. For further details please click on our news page.
We hope that you enjoy our site.