Sanctuary Stories
The Mothers-to-Be, Saved From Being Meat
Our story starts with a Saturday night call about two little goats with nowhere to go…
When police officers got a call about children hitting two goats with sticks, outside an apartment complex in Surrey, BC, they could not have known the tale that would subsequently unfold. As Diane Marsh, co-owner of Happy Herd Farm Sanctuary in Langley, BC recalls, it’s a story that starts with a Saturday night call about two little goats with nowhere to go, and ends with a family of five, now living their best life at the sanctuary — a happy ending far different from what could have been.
“One day I went to the [farmed animal] auction . . . and there was a calf. I had seen calves and goats and everything before, and never even thought about it. This one though — I felt like I got run over by a truck.” So she brought the calf home.
Before the Happy Herd Farm Sanctuary came to be, former stockbroker Marsh, along with her partner Stephen Wiltshire, initially ran an equestrian centre, where they took in retired racehorses who they’d let local kids ride. Following a trip…
