21/08/2026
This week a local lady contacted me to see if I could take on her three elderly pigs that mean the world to her. Already got my hands full here but she really needed to get them out of their current home asap due to an unsafe environment for the animals to live in.
She had exhausted all other options to rehome and didn’t want to offer them out for free for obvious reasons.
To help, I agreed to take them. I have already started building extra fencing this week.
The lady then put a public post on the local community social media pages to see if anyone could help with transporting the pigs to Eventide.
The next day, Bio Security Tasmania decided to send me a large email all about my responsibilities with registrations and paperwork for all the animals here and all the paperwork I need to complete . They highlighted pigs, funny as I don’t have any pigs currently.
More permits, more paperwork and more payments to complete. All from a rescue sanctuary earning little in Winter.
Sadly, I don’t think the timing of the email was a coincidence, I believe someone saw the lady reach out for assistance to get the pigs here and decided the best thing to achieve in their day was to call bio security. All this has done is now delayed the pigs being moved to safety. Well done.
A few weeks earlier, bio security asked me for some pictures of the young calves after someone told them they are skinny, (please bear in mind Helga and George are probably the most spoilt calves you could meet) sent the pictures they needed and was told they were ok but they still decided to turn up unannounced, the very next morning with an entire team of them and demand I let them in to view the world’s fattest and happiest cows.
Had to cancel the public tour I was on and refund the tour to the people who had paid to visit Eventide due to the bio team turning up unannounced and saying they can’t wait. The tours is how I fund the place to pay for animal feed. Ironic they make me cancel it and then check I’m feeding the animals enough.
They had a look around and were satisfied with everything again.
Before this, they also contacted me due to me taking goats to the local daycare centre for the children to meet, if I did it again I would have to fill out forms to register the journey as a livestock movement! To take a couple of goats or lambs to meet some young children for an hour. The same forms that huge cattle trucks need to submit! 🤦♂️
To save all the hassle and nonsense I cancelled all upcoming animal visits to local schools.
I just wish one of these government departments would get in touch one day with assistance to help me run the sanctuary instead of the constant extra things they want from me.
I have reached out to local MP’s and even gone in their Sorell offices in person multiple times to offer them a look at what I do here and none of them have taken up my offer or even got back to me.
The journey of running the sanctuary really gets to me at times.
Thanks for reading.
Picture of Bodhi trying to work out why Max is on the couch and he has to ask for a biscuit on the door mat!
