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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - For the past 15 years, the Patient Feather Ranch has been rescuing cows, chickens and adjacent camels, and present the accredited 401c accredited non-profit is calling connected volunteers to marque definite their animals proceed to get assistance for decades to come.
Patient Feather Ranch President and Fresno autochthonal Priscilla Davis says she's been an carnal person for arsenic agelong arsenic she tin remember.
"As a child, I conscionable loved animals," Davis said. "It starts with dogs and cats, and I've had rabbits. My dada bought america a pony. We lived successful the metropolis of Fresno - truthful not allowed."
Davis adjacent says she envisioned increasing up to go a veterinarian astatine a young age. Still, beingness seemed to redirect her, meaning the Patient Feather Ranch did not hap immediately.
"Right retired of High School, I worked astatine SaveMart," Davis said. "Then I opened a kid attraction concern and I did that for 10 years."
Davis says her carnal rescuing archetypal started with a sheep, 3 hens and a rooster successful Fresno County.
"The owner's location had caught fire, and they needed to beryllium rehomed," Davis said.
Her fostering acquisition helped her recognize the request for a rescue that could accommodate much than Fresno's emblematic pets. It wasn't until Davis and her household moved to the assemblage of Raymond successful Madera County that the Patient Feather Ranch got its start.
Davis says she started rescuing animals similar Monster the tortoise, whose proprietor had passed away.
The ranch is besides location to animals who came from little compassionate erstwhile homes, similar Jethro, the mammoth mule.
"He was truly neglected and malnourished," Davis said. "He's a sweetheart and he's precise old."
Davis says Jethro has arthritis and needs to determination around. Luckily the ranch allows galore of the animals, similar Jethro, to roam the full 40-acre spot freely.
Davis says she mostly cares for each the animals herself, and for the past 15-years, she and her hubby person paid for each of the animal's attraction retired of pocket.
"It's not easy. The terms of provender fluctuates, the terms of hay fluctuates and you've got to beryllium prepared for that," Davis said. "Especially if you can't turn each your own, which we can't."
But this year, Davis says, acknowledgment to the Central Valley Women's Entrepreneurship Center astatine Fresno State, she's been capable to use for national grants and alleviate the fiscal costs of the ranch.
"I couldn't person done it without their help," Davis said. "I emotion animals and I shovel poop. I don't cognize each the different stuff. They helped maine and guided maine done step-by-step to get to wherever I'm astatine close now."
Now, Davis says the entity is the bounds for the Patient Feather Ranch, from veterinary workshops to tours. Davis says she wants anyone funny successful visiting the ranch to scope out.
She besides urges everyone to instrumentality an involvement successful carnal conservation and volunteering.
"It takes a batch much than emotion to rise an animal," Davis said. "If you privation to volunteer, if you privation to donate, you know, you person a favourite carnal you privation to sponsor, they each request something."
Anyone who wants to scope retired to the Patient Feather Ranch can bash truthful via their Instagram leafage here.
