Love in Action

The little Welsh Corgi with a broken back was dumped at a shelter by his owner . His back legs hung uselessly behind him and he dragged them along to get around. This would not have been a very cheery story for Valentine's day, but it is a story of love and victory in the end and worth reading.

Hollow Creek Farm is the quirkiest animal rescue I know. They don't rescue the animals that most people rescue. They rescue the blind, the lame, the wounded, the vicious... and they restore them and place them in a forever home, or they give them a home on their beautiful farm dotted with rescued cows, horses, deer, goats, pigs, and dogs dogs dogs. They prowl the kill lists sent from the surrounding shelters and the most tragic cases are the ones they snag. The ones no one else thinks should be bothered with.

Speedy, the little corgi was brought home to Hollow Creek. They started a fund raising plea on Facebook for "wheels" for Speedy. But whether they got the funds or not, they began the process of fitting Speedy to special dog cart wheels so that he could run and play again. You can go to their website (hollowcreekfarm.org) and watch the little corgi learn within seconds that he could walk again. And within three days, Speedy was playing fetch, and herding the pack of dogs like every Corgi is innately wired to do.
He already knows how to wheel his cart to his special pillow where his front end lies luxuriously and his motionless back end is supported on his new wheels.

Donations are at an all time low, and the needs are at an all time high. It was in this wretched economy that Speedy was loved enough by a little rescue farm to be given a chance to be a corgi again, doing what corgis love to do.

Jesus told us that it is when we act on behalf of the "least of us" that we most fully reveal our love of Him. I know that He is speaking of humans specifically, but if God created the animals, surely He cares for them as well. Proverbs 12:10 says the "righteous care of the needs of their animals."

There is plenty of suffering to go around, and plenty of human and non-human places to send our money that might ease the pain for some creature of God. But I hear there is a paralyzed goat at Hollow Creek Farm watching Speedy enviously....hoping for funds for her wheels so she can race the little corgi and rip open and dump all the feed bags like all the other goats.


Matthew 25:40
⁴⁵ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

Luke 9:46
For it is the one who is least among you all who is the greatest.”