Have you always been an animal lover?
I always wanted to work with animals and am fortunate to have been able to fulfil my dream job – although I still work full time in sales alongside running the sanctuary! From the age of seven I was a vegetarian and I grew up thinking I wasn’t contributing to cruelty. But when I was about 30, I came across something on the internet about the dairy industry and I was horrified. At that point I went into my kitchen and threw away all the dairy in my house. I then looked closer into the egg industry – I used to buy free range, but at a closer look I stopped eating eggs too. So within one day I’d gone from vegetarian to vegan. I am now nearly 40 years old and I would never go back.