Leslie Topham. This is the Topham home. I knocked on their door, trying to find a story. What I found was not just one, but many stories about the incredible Topham family. I narrowed it down to just one, and thats the story I will share here.
Leslie, wife and mother of three, is "married" to her animals. She was adopted, and through the process of finding her birth parents, found comfort in animals and their similar situations with being disconnected with their birth parents. She wrote a whole book about how to understand adoption; how a parent can approach the subject of their child being adopted by referring to animals. Animals are commonly put in new homes after birth, generally because the owners of the animal believes the animal needs a good home. To leslie, animals are her people. She and her husband spend up to 9,000 dollars a month on hay for all of their animals. They have 15 horses, 2 mules, 1 donkey, 3 chickens, lots of dogs and cats, and many goats. With little hired help, Leslie's life is taking care of these animals. Placing in many races and horse shows, she is personally on a whole different level of companionship with her horses. Leslie is the definition of selfless. She would give her life for her animals, especially her horses.
