Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2009/January 2010 | Page 79

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with her passion for helping animals.
Twelve years ago she moved from
the New Forest, where she had a
chain of mail-order shops, to the Isle
of Wight, to buy land on which to
rescue animals. Today the dilapidated
outbuildings of the farm she bought
in Brighstone are refurbished and
have become a haven for animals
which once were extremely neglected
or ill-treated.
“They have a home forever with
me,” she says, “and they get
24-hour care. Elvis the cockerel had
been brought into Heathrow illegally.
His wings were all shredded and
bleeding,” recalls Jacci.
Some years ago Jacci went to Egypt
with the Brooke Animal Hospital,

Photo: Jacci (right) pictured with daughter Sophie

where she rescued sick horses and

that work on the beaches. “We do all the

seeing the animals waiting for their feed.

brought them home. “We had to get

worming, get a vet to blood check them

Last thing I do is go round and check

them from Luxor to Cairo, which is 700

and check the feeds,” she explains. “The

every one of them.”

miles!”

people care, but can’t afford to look after

Jacci’s life is run to a strict timetable.
After tending her animals she will be

them.”
She is anxious to stress that the charity

Having said that, a whole day’s work
was lost recently when, en route to the
ferry, she found two dogs running free

at her beauty salon in Lymington, or at

shop doesn’t fund her own rescued

with no means of identifying their owner.

her charity shop, All About Animals, in

animals in Br