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We only have 2 days before Laura and Beth run the Robin Hood Half Marathon for Brinsley Animal Rescue! We are aiming to raise money for an oxygen concentrator for our busy wildlife hospital. This equipment will help the most needy of patients that come into our hospital that need extra help. Thanks so much to everyone that has donated so far. Link below and link in the bio. https://gofund.me/54b1445a
Today was a very poignant day and was the funeral of a local legendary figure who instigated us to start Brinsley Animal Rescue. Celia, who started Kirkby Pet Welfare from her home many years ago is where I often volunteered. It was a crazy place usually housing in excess of 150 rabbits, dogs, cats and small pets. The long garden was a maze of rabbit hutches and pens and the place was always full to capacity (and beyond). Celia was a unique character with a hard exterior but in later years she eventually warmed to me when she realised I was not a quitter. I’d go to help out and usually come back with at least 10 needy rabbits. We’d sort them with our own money and get them neutered and vaccinated and then we would rehome or end up keeping the problem ones. Although very often things weren’t ideal or perfect we never criticised or judged her as what we learnt is that she was just a thimble in a very fast moving river (and the rescue we have set up today is too!!) Celia did her best with very limited resources and saved thousands of lives over the years. Whatever anyone thought of Celia and her abrupt demeanour it is obvious that the world needs more doers and people willing to take action rather than critics, keyboard tappers and procrastinators! Animals only get saved by doing something constructive TODAY! Today a small group of Celia’s volunteers celebrated her life and what she stood for. Everyone at that service today continues with the baton she handed us to rescue more and continue her legacy. A small and dedicated group of ‘doers’. RIP Celia
The very beautiful and affectionate Melvin had his necessary neuter this week and had essential blood tests. It is fortunate as a rescue that we do this even though it adds huge costs onto every intake. Melvin has sadly tested positive for FIV so now he cannot go to the home that was lined up. He’s recovered so well after his op and spent this morning having fuss and cuddles from our volunteers and giving huge purrs. If anyone can offer a very special FIV cat a 5 star home then please get in touch. He has been to 2 vets so far and they’ve both guessed his age to be only 4 years old. He’s a true gentle cat that has been living rough and getting into several scraps with other unneutered tom cats by the looks of him. He’s now fixed and ready for a new home. #fiv #fivcat #fivcatsneedlovetoo #fivcatsneedhomestoo #fivcatsareadoptable #adoptdontshop #neuteryourpet #neuteryourcat #neuteredcat #spayandneuter #spayandneuteryourdamnpets
Mrs Shaler my old P.E teacher from John Cleveland College, if you’re still alive be proud, be very proud!!! Of the girl that always came last in cross country because next Sunday we will be running the Robin Hood Half Marathon to raise money for an oxygen generator for our busy little wildlife hospital! I don’t know why in July we conjured up this feat when our only real running practise was chasing injured wild animals, however, we’re committed now, been training and we’re all in! This is our first half marathon and we have zero previous of distance running but we are actually loving it, embracing it and we decided to start somewhere! Our training plan has been ad hoc but we’ve both massively improved our running in the past 2 months and set ourselves a challenge. I blame Laura and she blames me. Please sponsor us, us the link here - https://gofund.me/99c14fe0
When you donated for the emergency cat that needed his leg pinning we were so overwhelmed by your generosity that we took in another emergency too!! Meet Melvin, an unneutered stray that had the biggest smelliest abcess we have ever seen on his neck!! He’s been on meds and has tolerated us bathing his nasty wounds. Fortunately the vets managed to drain and cut out the infection under anaesthetic and today he’s in for his much needed neuter and blood tests. Melvin already has a home lined up dependent on blood results. Fingers crossed for Melvin and as always a huge huge thankyou to our donors and supporters. Without the generosity of many people we have never met we would be unable to take in such emergencies. #neutercats #neuterpets #catrrescue #catrescuenottingham #adoptdontshop #adoptcats #catadoption #straycat #neuteryourcat #neuteryourpet
A massive, massive thankyou to everyone that donated to our emergency appeal for the cat involved in the accident last week. A specialist orthopaedic surgeon came to his rescue at short notice and has pinned his broken leg. He is now with us and still feeling a bit bruised and sorry for himself but without our supporters and donors he would not be here today. He’s an affectionate lad and we are so pleased that we have been able to help him. We’ll keep you updated on his progress and can’t thank people enough for their generosity in helping animals when they need us the most. And……..if that’s not enough, we also helped another cat that also needed emergency surgery last week too!! We’ll post a story about him shortly. He is an unneutered Tom cat that had a massive abcess probably due to fighting. Hes currently stinking out the volunteer room but is coming round to the idea that humans might be ok after all. Massive thankyou everyone. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
No sooner had we released a pair of Kestrels that have been recovering in an aviary following treatment in our hospital, two more birds of prey arrive. This week this beautiful female kestrel was admitted and yesterday a sparrow hawk.
To manage and operate a successful animal charity, our volunteers require a wide variety of skills and competencies, not least animal welfare and fundraising, we also need to govern a charity, ensuring we comply with legislation and regulation and have enough income. In addition there are multiple skills needed in the supporting activities, we need to be an accountant, a mechanic, a plumber, a tractor/van/car driver, a gardener, a PR Officer, a teacher, the list is endless. The more that we, our volunteers can do, the further our limited income is spread. Land management is always ongoing no matter what the season from muck spreading, harrowing, hedge laying to fencing repairs. Here we are replacing a rotten section of fencing with a post rammer implement, attached to our tractor.
Today has been a full afternoon of pony dentals with our equine vets from @minster_vets The equines here need this as regularly as we humans need to see a dentist and they can’t tell us when they have tooth ache or a tooth drops out or chips so we have to have a metal gag unceremoniously placed in their mouth so we can get a good look inside at the teeth. For all of ours we have used sedation to make the procedure as comfortable as possible. Just another of the many tasks we have to carry out at the rescue. #equinedental #equinerescue #ponydental #ponyrescue #dartmoorponyrescue #dartmoorpony #rescueracehorse #racehorsereecue #horserescuenottingham
Thank you Amazon for the generous donation of this large amount of pet food for our rescue animals. Everyday we use a large amount of food for cats and meat eating wildlife such as hedgehogs, corvids, foxes etc so this large donation helps us and the animals massively!
The last of the ducklings have finally been released, totalling 34 sucessfully released this year. Also successfully released this year was 8 goslings, we just have 3 cygnets left to release in a few weeks.
Massive thanks to everyone that has helped already towards the emergency yesterday. We’ll update you later as his surgery went really well and he’s now in recovery. TONIGHT we are doing another fundraiser for him at our regular Peoples Kitchen slot at the @sumaccentreuk As you know everything we do we do with passion and of course you’d expect nothing less from our cooking too!! We’ve been practising a Mexican meal of a bean chilli, rice and Mexican salad served with tacos of roast cauliflower and chipotle dressing. The suggested donation is just £5 and cakes will be sold separately. Sadly we have no entertainment tonight unless any ad hoc musicians, poets, amateur dramatics want to do something impromptually! Hope to see you all later for some hearty vegan food. And as always thanks to our culinary team!! X. #fundraiser #veganfood #nottinghamcharity #charityfundraiser #peopleskitchen #nottinghamanimalrescue
We had another emergency rescue last night that needed us to make the immediate decision to try and help. This gorgeous boy was rescued by the fire brigade in Ilkeston last night and was taken straight to the vets. On examination it was found that he had been in a road traffic accident and has a badly broken leg. He is now undergoing urgent surgery to try and pin the leg and we have agreed to take on this little fella and the cost of his surgery which has been estimated at £2,000 plus any additional treatment. Our open day funds have gone to pay for our winter hay and straw supplies and current vet bills and we had not anticipated or budgeted for any huge costs like this. As a registered charity (1135508) we are eligible for Gift Aid so any donations made through Enthuse (link below) will get Gift Aid automatically collected if you are a UK tax payer which helps enormously with our fundraising efforts. If you are able to help with this current emergency then this little soul won’t be able to say thanks but we can speak on his behalf and say a massive, massive thankyou. ♥️♥️ Thanks also to the legendary fire brigade who always step up to rescuing animals as well as humans and have helped us on so many occasions🙌. ++++DONATE USING THIS LINK +++++ https://brinsleyanimalrescue.enthuse.com/Cat_Rescue
Dan Buettner who researched the 'Blue Zones' found that people who volunteer live longer!! That means that all our amazing volunteers that turn up whatever the weather and give up their time for all our open days will live well into old age!! A huge, huge thankyou to everyone that helped out and supported us at our recent open day. It was amazing weather which helped enormously and encouraged almost 1,000 people to attend. We raised well over £5000 which goes a long way towards helping with vet, feed, hay and project bills. Massive thanks to Gayle, Amanda and Tony that helped for 3 days solidly before the event and even decided to help the charity instead of going to The Hacienda at Wollaton Park. Without our volunteers and supporters we would not be able to rescue those that cannot speak for themselves. Without our regular donors who give to help animals they will never meet we would cease to exist. From all our rescues, A BIG BIG THANK YOU!!
Our Freddie is in the news!
Don’t forget it’s our summer open day this Sunday. 11 until 4. Lots of residents to meet, cakes to eat, licensed bar and outside caterers as well as a fabulous raffle, children’s games and other local registered charities. The weather looks great and we hope to see you all at the weekend. Vegan ice cream will be on sale from @vicescreams the infamous veggie burgers will be on sale courtesy of @veggiescateringcampaign and more fabulous vegan food from @nobaloneyuk and as always beer from the @dancingduckbrewery
It’s been a full day of hoof trimming with the lovely girls and trainees from areionacademy. The ponies and horses have all loved their routine pedicures and have all behaved despite this mornings 70mph wind that sent some of them into a tail spin. The Hoof Trimming girls are nearing the end of their training and we are only too happy to be part of their journey in hoof trimming training. They take such good care of our ponies hooves and our equines are all so relaxed and sleepy after their trims that some have had to be woken up. Even Albie our naughtiest pony is a completely reformed character where his hoof trims are concerned. Thanks so much girls.
Another 4 Mallards released, we have 4 left that will be ready in a weeks time, that brings the total so far this year to over 30 Mallards released.
Freddie is real character, he is so loved by us and all of our volunteers, he's also very popular at our open days, the next being the 1st September so not long now! Freddie has a congenital deformity, his nose is twisted and lower jaw twisted by 90 deg, as he has grown the deformity has increased. At 9 years old, he is now fully grown, our vets are always amazed to see him still with us and how full of life he is. His condition really impacts on his ability to eat, he has a massive appetite however struggles to keep food in his mouth long enough to chew and swallow. We love Freddie so much, he is such a naughty boy who's always in your way and if your trying to get past him with some food, you have no chance, you get cow mugged! His favourite food is bananas, he's not able to eat them himself, we have to assist by pushing them deep into his mouth.
There are always many ups and downs when running an animal rescue, last week we had to say good night to Molly, originally rescued as a piglet along with her 4 siblings. Molly had deteriorated quite quickly, she had become very unsteady on her back legs, after mediation failed to help improve her condition, it was time to call the vet again to euthanise her. She was first sedated, her passing was then very quick and peaceful. On reflection we have to be upbeat, Molly along with her 4 brothers and sisters were rescued from a petting zoo, once a few months old and no longer cute piglets, they were due to be killed to make way for more piglets to bring the paying punters in. A kind person stepped in and they were saved. Its sad that Molly and her brothers and sisters have spent seven years of thier lives with us, waiting for that permanent home, whilst people continue to breed. However with us, they have had a first class home, they have been loved and well cared for. R.I.P. Molly
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