Tour of Wood Green Animal Shelter

 We went on a trip to Wood Green Animal Shelters www.woodgreen.org.uk, Godmanchester with some other home educating families and were impressed by what we saw. The animals look very well cared for and the facilities are very good. The kennel block for the dogs which was state of the art when it was built in the 1980's is now being replaced as research has apparently shown that dogs relax better when they can't see each other so their accomodation is being completely redesigned.

   We don't go to zoos as we prefer seeing animals wild and free but it was interesting to take a look behind the scenes at an animal shelter and for the children to get a chance to meet ferrets, rats, dogs, goats, ex-battery hens and  guinea pigs. I think that wherever you stand on the issue of companion animals, there's no denying that these animals at Wood Green need caring permanent homes, so it was good to see them being so well looked after.

    We treated ourselves the other day and tried some new marshmallows which we bought on ebay. They were called Ananda's Homemade Fresh Vegan Marshmallows. We've always planned to sell marshmallows in our new vegan online shop, but this is not the brand that we'd planned to stock, so we were curious as to what they'd be like. 

  As far as we are concerned we're all on the same side here, so I wouldn't want to be too dismissive about them; plenty of people have given positive feedback about so there are some happy vegans out there eating this brand of marshmallows! But we didn't think they had that much flavour and didn't really have that billowy, pillowy texture that you really want in a marshmallow, so we were slightly disappointed.
  If you want to try some delicious vegan treats then come and visit us at www.veganation.co.uk in a couple of weeks and browse our selection of goodies.