FOG BLOG FEEL GOOD LOG: NANCY THE SHEEP HAS NEW LEG AND NEW HOME, LILY'S PLACE SANCTUARY!

Sanctuary provides forever home for farm animals like Nancy, a sheep with a new leg A year after starting, Lily's Place packed up and moved from Ontario to New Brunswick Nancy the sheep arrived at Lily's Place Animal Sanctuary only a few weeks ago. She will spend the rest of her life there.

But Nancy looks a little different than other sheep at the sanctuary — she has a prosthetic leg.

"Nancy's story is a difficult one … because she was born on a farm, suffered a broken leg that was never treated, and the bottom part of that leg fell off," said Jamie Sabot, co-founder of Lily's Place along with her husband, Tim Clancy.

"It's a miracle that she's even alive." Lily's Place is a non-profit sanctuary in Codys, about 85 kilometres east of Fredericton by the Canaan River, that provides forever care for displaced farm animals. The sanctuary started in Appin, Ont., west of London, in 2019 with just five chickens and a sheep.

From Ontario to New Brunswick

Less than a year later, Lily's Place moved to New Brunswick.

"We were looking for a place that didn't have very many farm sanctuaries," said Sabot. "There [are] a lot in Ontario and it seemed like there was a need here for more farm animal rescues." Clancy said the property they purchased in Codys had been operating as a golf course that didn't use any pesticides, so it was safe for the animals, and it had a large storage building that could be used as a barn.

"We kind of heard through the grapevine that [the owners] were just looking to retire and to move on. So for us, it was the perfect property because of all the cleared land," said Clancy. "It was an excellent opportunity to have a nice grass field for the animals."

Now the sanctuary has 21 animals, but Sabot said it has had up to 30 at one point, including sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, quails, a turkey and horses. Sabot said they also have rescue dogs and a barn cat named Carl, but they are not counted under the sanctuary.