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Street Collection 11th Oct 09
This Sunday Nottingham Animal Rights will kindly be doing a street collection on behalf of Brinsley Animal Rescue in Nottingham city centre. If you are able to spare some time or cash then please lend your support and find our supporters in St Petersgate.
We rehome our first pig!
We get quite frustrated by the usual phone calls about pet pigs, but for once we received a call with a difference. Far too often we get calls from people who have bought piglets from a breeder, then several months later the pig is too large and destructive and they don’t want them any more and [...]
The boys are rehomed
Archie, Benji, Charlie and Dillon were all rescued at one week old, the waste by product of the dairy industry. We took them in and hand reared them, finally they have gone to a great new home in West Yorkshire.
brinsleyanimalrescue.org relaunch
The site has been down the last couple of days due to hosting problems, so we have taken this opportunity to release the new theme.
Swan Rescue
This beautiful swan came to us from Shipley County Park. It had a fishing hook lodged into its body. Following a trip to the vets to have the hook removed, it is now recuperating in a pen on antibiotics and painkillers.
Hand Rearing Squirrels
On 20 August we had three very young squirrels delivered to us, these were found by a member of the public that had disturbed them whilst cleaning a chimney. Unfortunately the mother left her three babies and was too frightened to return. We are now hand rearing all three, this is very time consuming, feeding [...]
Baby Collared Dove
This little chap was brought in by a cat. We are hand rearing him now until he can fend for himself, he will then be released.
Injured Pigeon
This guy has a broken wing, he will have to be suspended in a harness for a couple of weeks in a hospital cage. Then we can remove the bandage supporting his wing, he should then be fit enough to be moved to an aviary to start the rehabilitation process before final release. Update 20 September [...]