Warm Happy New Year wishes from all of us at Ishtar’s Ark!

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Ever since Diva was a baby foal, she has loved water. Actually, all our barbs have come to love getting wet and can spend hours splashing their bellies the cold muddy waters, …but Diva has a special approach… Ever since Diva was first introduced to water, …she wanted to be IN it. She’ll make a [...]

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While Diva stole the show last month, today is Zidane’s turn! Our BOY is finally one year old!!! He and Diva have practically grown up as twins. Whatever one has done, …the other has copied and tried to do “better”. Although his time with us is up now, I am grateful to have watching him [...]

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On the very day after Jason, Queenie and I came back to Zinder, Allis our black doe finally decided to deliver! The delivery went very quickly and I only had the time to hear a little goat whining, and there they were, two little newborn goats! Goat kids are definitively high ranking amongst sweet animal [...]

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It’s wintertime – my favourite season in Niger – and the sky is being painted in beautiful colours. It’s really cold at night and I’m sleeping outside whenever the sky is clear, enjoying the chil air brush against my face and waking to a beautiful sunrise display, unique for every morning, with the dogs sleeping [...]

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Every once in a while, I try something new. This week, I finally decided to cut up a huge pumpkin I bought several weeks ago. As a teen, I had a very disastrous pumpkin-pie experience which resulted in me avoiding pumpkin “ever after”. Finally, some fifteen years later, I reminded myself that everything is worth [...]

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It’s December down here in West Africa and the sky is deep blue. I recently took our buck Tyson to the Lyafa restaurant to let him serve the owner’s sweet little doe Blanquette. Although we have yet to find out what the end result will be, they made a sweet couple and although he did [...]

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Two weeks ago, I was back in Niamey again, …this time to pick up two new volunteers, Jason & Queenie, who were flying in all the way from Hongkong. Having discovered Eden Foundation through my blog, we started communicating earlier this year. One thing led to another, and now they have come to help out [...]

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It’s been a rough year for Arwen with many health setbacks but here’s a post saying that she’s still rocking and she’s still the most valuable horse in my life. Due to a lot of health issues, including piroplamosis and lameness both on one front leg and one back leg, I have not been able [...]

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