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.




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