Nestled in the heart of Mallorca, on the outskirts of the municipality of Costitx, Rancho Fino is a bustling haven for animals. It was founded accidentally by Stacey eight years ago, when she moved to the island and rescued her first horse, offering him her love and his `forever ́ home. It wasn ́t long before she quickly found herself caught up in the world of animal rescue, as more and more cases of neglect and cruelty came to her attention.

Standing up for those without a voice Horrified by the sheer quantity of animals in need, on an island renowned for its wealth and luxury, Stacey couldn ́t turn a blind eye and began to take in the neglected, unwanted and animals, entirely at her own expense, both financially and physically. Sacrificing her own needs in order to provide care for the animals with which she shared her life became the norm. Most Read on Euro Weekly News The birth of Rancho Fino One year into the project Stacey found herself and the animals almost homeless, but managed to find herself a tiny, derelict building to move into, with the sole advantage being that it had land, and land was what the animals so desperately required.

Rancho Fino was born from there. It was a huge project, and for the first few years Stacey lived almost in a kind of poverty, with a single burner stove that she used for cooking providing the only light and heat, and sleeping with the dogs in order to keep warm, on cold winter nights in a building riddled with damp and a roof that le.