Every day Katherine Connor is up at 5am getting breakfast ready… but not for her five children.
They’re still fast asleep while she feeds her 10 rescue dogs, 15 cats and the family rabbit. Then she gets ready to tend to a few of her larger babies – a herd of 10 vulnerable elephants.
By the time mum has breakfast on the table for Hope, 15, Noah, 13, Aaron, 11, Ethan, nine, and Luke, eight, their chatter across the cereal and toast is punctuated by rumbles, snorts and the occasional trumpeting outside. “There have been moments where I’ve been feeding a baby in my lap, with a dog beside me, and an elephant has come over to say hello,” says Katherine, 42. “It’s just like The Jungle Book. The elephants are our family. I’ve lived with them more than half my life and they still make me laugh and cry every day.”
Animals and humans all live in harmony together…
