AR-News: (U.S. - Md.) Star Gazing Farm

[Mary Finelli]

Front page article.


ANIMALS CAN LIVE IT UP DOWN ON THE FARM
The Gazette, Kristen Milton, May 5, 2004


full article at:
http://www.gazette.net/200419/poolesville/news/215097-1.html


Everyone remembers the semi-immortal "Seinfeld" line -- "Hello Newman" --
delivered with just the slightest hesitation and curl of the lip.

Anne Shroeder of Boyds said no name could be more appropriate for the
demanding, rambunctious 3-year-old ruler of her small animal sanctuary -- a
black and white goat who breaks into her car for naps, cracked her railing
dowels one by one, and necessitated the formation of a "no goat zone."

"It's a love/hate thing," Shroeder said Thursday with a shake of her head.
"I really do adore him but he does cause a lot of trouble."

Newman, who Shroeder calls "the boss and architect" of Star Gazing Farm,
arrived in 2002 just a month after Shroeder moved to the four-acre property,
determined to do something more for neglected and abandoned farm animals.

Now she hosts seven ducks, five sheep, three goats, two dogs, two rabbits
and a burro, pig, horse and cat. "I consider myself full," Shroeder said.
"In terms of the numbers I can, quote, 'save,' it's minimal but I can bring
people here and breed some compassion in them; that's valuable."

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