IT'S ENTIRELY LIKELY THAT NO PREVIOUS RECEPTION WOULD
HAVE FULLY PREPARED YOU FOR THE WELCOMING
COMMITTEE THAT AWAITS YOUR FIRST
VISIT TO IRWIN'S. IT BEGINS AS YOU
ARRIVE AT THE MAIN GATE, QUIETLY AT
FIRST, BUT RISING QUICKLY AS OTHERS
ADD THEIR VOICES TO THE PACK...BARKING,
BAYING, HOWLING, WOOFING, YAPPING,
YELPING AND
SNARLING. THE COMMOTION REACHES A CRESCENDO AS YOU PARKYOUR VEHICLE AND LOOK FOR THE OFFICE. IT'S
SITUATED RIGHT IN THE "EYE OF THE STORM", OF
COURSE, SO YOU TAKE A DEEP BREATHAND PREPARE YOURSELF. YOU PROCEED,
SOMEWHAT TENTATIVELY, AMID LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF EXCITED
HOUNDS. STANDING ONHIND LEGS, THEY CRANE AND STRAIN THEIRNECKS TO GET A BETTER VIEW OF THIS
HUMAN WHO DARES TO INTRUDE ONTHEIR TURF. DESTINATION REACHED, CALM GRADUALLY
RETURNS...UNTIL THE NEXT VISITOR ARRIVES.
For twenty two years Irwin Animal
Rescue Centre, hidden away in Walkers Fruit Farms, has been the saviour of countless
animals who otherwise faced a life of abject misery and
very often a cruel and
painful demise.