 Edgar's Mission. Here we are. Okay, here we are at Edgar's Mission Animal Sanctuary in Victoria. We're gonna go meet the animals. Oh, this must be in memory of Edgar the Pig. 2003, 2010. Oh, he's got wings because he must be an angel now. That makes sense that Edgar's Mission is named after Edgar the Pig because look, there's all these references as that must be Edgar. That must be who the sanctuary is in memory of and maybe he was the original rescue. We should go ask. Okay, I guess we just, I guess I'm doing this. Everyone, disinfect your boots. If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn't we, followed by a pig? I love you. Look at him. Is that Kelly? Oh my God, that's Kelly from South Australia. Are you from South Australia? Kelly? Yeah, how are you going? Good to see you. I was just asking at the front, is Edgar the Pig that this place is named after? Yeah, so it started when Pam rescued him. Pam teamed up with Animals Australia as part of their Save Babe campaign. Yeah. They wanted to get a photo of James Cromwell on the steps of Parliament House with a piggy. Yeah. They did and that piggy was Edgar, which then led to the start of Edgar's Mission. Wow, like a fantasy playground for animals. It's amazing. Where should we start? Can we do like the whole round trip tour? Yeah, we'll grab some week-bix and chicken food. We can start in Chicken Village. Okay, yeah. I can kind of walk around the whole sanctuary. Chicken Village? Yes. Oh my God, look at his hairstyle. Okay, we're in the chicken wonderland called Chicken Village. And there's Rod Stewart. Oh, look at your legs. Hey, kid. Look at your hair. Oh, better not. They might peck my finger. So the brown hands, these are called Eyes of Brown. Okay. So they're typically rescued from commercial egg wagons. Yeah. Check out, they've got little houses. Oh, they've got little, they've got a little house here. A little wind chime. This is so good. How good, hey? They've got their own little park bench. A little chicken bench. Hello, mate. Hello. The eye and kindness. What a good idea. Oh my God, he's got a tip. Oh, turkeys. Oh, hello. What's your name? Ballerina. Okay, ballerina. A couple of years is a long time for them to survive after something like that, yeah? It's actually doing really, really well. Wow. So they cut their nails so they don't fight in captivity? Yes. Are you guys used to people? They're used to having visitors and stuff like that, hey? Yeah, so he wants to be his girlfriend. I've got a girlfriend, that's fine. Wow, they're so amazing. I love turkeys. And their ears are so amazing. They've got a little fur on their little ears. Oh, you're lucky to be here in the animal wonderland. Hello, Eddie. Nice to meet you. Oh my God. Hello. Is that okay to get down like he's not? Yeah. Hey. Hey, mate. He used to feed in the leaves on the trees. Oh, what is that one? Look at you. Do you want a leaf? Am I allowed to give him a leaf? Do you want a leaf? Oh, steady Eddie. Wow. He communicated with me. Are you communicating with me? What do you want? See how smart animals are. Hey, here you go, mate. Oh, wow. And he's got a little cast on his foot. Yes. He's one of our special needs goats, so he's free to wander around. Oh, because he's kind of like trying to get his balance, and that's why he's steady, Eddie. Yeah. Oh, adorable. Here, have more leaves. Oh, he's the best. Oh, you're adorable. She does all right with three legs cruising around. Yeah, really well. Oh, dear. You like scratches. You're beautiful. Snow white. Where's the dwarfs? Where's the seven dwarfs in the chicken village? Eddie's going to come for the tour. Eddie's going to come on the hang. Come on, Eddie. Come show us around your pad. Hello, Leo. How are you? He's actually born on... Oh, really? And looked out, and someone found him on the side of the road. How long ago? How old is he? Oh, dear. Leo's on your bubbles. Leo, you're a hero. Is this a rooster? See how he's a little bit sporadic, isn't he? A few months ago, the RSPCA shut down a cock fighting ring right here in Victoria, and we were able to offer homes to seven roosters. So that's why he looks a bit different, so he's been bred to fight. Yeah, and he's more sporadic, and he seems a bit more intense and aggravated. Yeah, because he's been bred to fight other roosters. He's also had his comb and his wattle cut off with razor blades. Horrible. And you can see how different he looks to the other chickens in the chicken village. So we've had a lot of problems trying to... Integrate? Yeah, integrate them with the other chickens because of the fighting. So he's just not feeling well at the moment. That's why he's here. And we've got another area where the other roosters are too. And one of them has his very own girlfriend now. Oh, wow. Like a chicken village. Oh, cool. So they just need to get back to normal and... Yeah, settle down a bit, and then know some love and kindness. Oh, dear. That's horrible that the cock fighting is disgusting. Yeah. Yeah. Settle down. Got a girlfriend now. Got a girlfriend. Survived the war. He's given the family life. He's out the gang life. He sounds a bit like me. He doesn't be like me. Okay, so where are we now? This is our paddock of special needs sheep. Special needs sheep? So everybody in here just requires a bit of extra ongoing care. Okay, I can see little casts on their feet. Yeah, we have a couple of sheep with prosthetics and boots to help them get around. We'll see who wants to come over and say hi. Well, they're all looking over at me. I'm curious. Look at this one here. Who's this here looking at? This is precious. Precious is like, what's up? What are you doing here? Oh, my God. Hello. Oh, this feels really... You guys are living it up in here. So when they go to sleep, they have their little prosthetics taken off. And then when they wake up, they wait for you guys to put their little feet back on and then they cruise. Oh, these are awesome. So good. Oh, my dear Lord. Have mercy. Look how adorable. Okay, so the guys here at the sanctuary put big teddies in the pens here with the babies so they have something extra to snuggle up to. That's a good idea. I need one of these. You got a big teddy bear in here to keep you warm. Very proud of them. Hello. Hello, sheep. Hello. Hi, guys. Hey. How you going, mate? How you going? Have a little sniff? Have a little sniff? Hello. Hello. How are you? Okay. So I'll give you a wee bit. Okay. So if you just hold it horizontally. Horizontally. We will come up and do the rest. Handsome. Are you done? Oh, dear. Here he comes. Hello, Handsome. Oh, the big tongue pokes out. Here you go. Oh, wow. Is that yummy? Did you like that, Handsome? Like a big puppy dog. Where's Handsome from? So Handsome is just a week old. Okay. And he's 10 years old now. Wow. Because the boys in the dairy farm usually, they're slaughtered really young, aren't they? They're usually killed in their first week of life. It's wasted. Yeah. So he was very lucky. He was very, very lucky. We also have a few other cows in here too. I think Clara Bell is coming over to say hi. So Clara Bell, she's the lighter-coloured Jersey cow. Okay. Yep. And she was on a dairy farm for five years. Every year she'd give birth to a baby. Okay. And then had the baby taken away from her. So her milk could be used for human consumption. Yep. And she ended up here because she was actually marked for slaughter at the time, but pregnant. Okay. And we were able to arrange her rescue here. And so we knew she was pregnant, but didn't know when she was going to give birth. And she was actually in this paddock here. So it had the bushland along the side. And she was always really friendly to start off with. She would come over to the fence to say hi and for food and pats and cuddles. And then one day she was slightly more withdrawn. Yep. And one of her teats had dropped. And we're like, and she kept looking back to the forest area. And we're like, oh, she's had her baby, but couldn't find her baby anywhere. Oh, wow. And she'd gotten hidden her baby in the forest area. Ah. Because she'd remembered every year on the dairy farm they'd taken her baby away from her. Yeah. So she kind of did everything she could to protect her. Wow. And then she did that for about three months. So every time we went and found her baby, she'd go and make her stand up and move her somewhere else. And she did this for three months till she realized you guys aren't going to hurt my baby anymore. They kind of proudly brought her out to show the world. And her baby is named Valentine because we found her on Valentine's Day. And her baby is this big baby in the paddock here. Oh, the bronze sort of brown. Always still with her mum. Wow. I think it's such a beautiful story that really highlights that bond that it's not just us that have that with our children. It's all animals as well. Yeah. Beautiful that Clarabel gets to spend the rest of her life with one of her babies. Because like I'm doing a campaign at the moment and people are saying, well they don't understand their calf has been taken. You can't call it kidnapped. They don't know. And this just proves that after, you know, five abductions of her calf, she's just, you know, you're going to take this one away. I'm going to hide this baby. Yeah, she did everything she could. Yeah. So like this just disproves all of this nonsense that they don't understand. The dairy industry is just so traumatic for mothers and for everyone involved. It's so horrible. But to have a beautiful story like this is just, it's wonderful. Oh, dear. Sophie is her friend on the left and Sophie is her seeing eye cow. Oh. We went Ray Ray and Lambini. Yeah. Lambini wears the collar with the bell so Sophie wears a little collar on it with the bell so babe can always hear where she is and follow around by the sound. Wow, babe, you got your own seeing eye cow. Helping you out. So they're the best of friends and Sophie loves to groom babe so she loves looking her face. Oh, so you're looking after each other. Thanks for helping out, babe. Thanks for helping out, babe. You're a true friend.