Photo Chris Copeland
Eden was in need of some uplifting news following the deaths of Grace and Caoimhe. Good news came in the person of Annie.
Photo Chris Copeland
Stolen from her mother and heartlessly named ‘lamb chops’, she was taken to live in a Dublin suburb where she faced a fate of brutal death.
Photo Agatha Kisiel
She has a respiratory condition but aside from the cough and rattle in her chest you’d never guess she was ill. She is already a feisty character and something of an escape artist. She has not let her history cast a shadow on her life.
Photo Agatha Kisiel
It is easy to condemn those who stole her and intended to use her as food. It is even easier to cast stones because those people are not Irish. But Annie’s plight was not much different to that of any of lamb in any Irish field. Soon they will all be stolen from their mothers. Soon each of them will face the brutal death that Annie has avoided or they will be used to breed more lambs and, in turn, lose their own babies. Everyone of them is an ‘Annie’. You can stop participating in the harm they suffer by living vegan.
Photo Agatha Kisiel
Sincere thanks to Kildare Animal Foundation who found Annie and cared for her until Eden became her home.
