Carole moved back to Hertfordshire, putting the small amount of money left over from the sale into the sanctuary. She also gave up the luxury of bricks and mortar, choosing to live in a mobile home on a site with some land for her rescued animals. It wasn’t a great move for Carole though. Continued vandalism caused numerous problems and made life extremely difficult.

Carole has also had her fair share of personal heartache, and this is what makes her story even more inspirational. Carole’s 32 year old disabled daughter named Melanie, sadly died of a heart attack in her arms. If this wasn’t devastating enough, Carole’s mother also passed away shortly afterwards, having lost her brave battle with breast cancer. But although Carole’s life had been ripped apart, this was when she also realised her true vocation. To rescue, protect, heal and care for the voiceless.

Best-selling American author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson visited Carole when he was researching his book ‘The Pig Who Sang To The Moon’ that was published in 2003. The sanctuary was then sited in Cambridgeshire. Masson wrote: “I don’t think I have met anyone to whom sheep are dearer, many of the sheep at her sanctuary had various disabilities such as Remus, a three-legged ram who seems unaware of his disability. Carole Webb knew the name of every sheep she was caring for (at least one hundred) and what I was able to see with my own eyes was that the sheep felt similarly about her.”