We are now hoping to raise the funds we desperately need to castrate the large male before he gets the two Young ones pregnant and we end up with more unwanted pets to rehome!

If you can help us raise the funds we vitally need, please click on the link opposite.

We have the drake in this sling to support his body weight in the hope that his leg injuries will heal. Although he is now drinking voluntarily, in the un-natural surroundings he is unwilling to eat and is being force fed.

Update - unfortunately despite our best efforts, he showed no signs of recovery and sadly died a few days after being hit by a car.

After eating puppy food and lapping up loads of rehydration fluid, the cub has made a great start to recovery.

Update - This little girl has now been moved on tho the Little Fox Project in Oxford. This organisation specialising in putting cubs of similar age together, preparing them for release back into the wild. A happy ending.

Spring time is very busy for us with many baby animals and birds coming in.  It is very time consuming and hard work not to mention sometimes heartbreaking to hand rear small animals.

This young man was rescued by Broxtowe Dog Warden, a member of the public called thinking he was a puppy.

We hand reared him on a puppy milk substitute and a small amount of puppy food, we have reared him without getting him too imprinted, as our aim is to always release wild animals back into the wild where they belong.

This photo was taken on 7 April when he first came to us.

This is the little mite as of 18 April, as you can now see he is looking more and more like a fox, and gosh his sharp teeth remind us that he is no pet, he is a wild animal.

We have now moved him onto a dedicated fox rescue charity in Oxford, who had another orphan cub in of the same age. This little guy is less likely to become imprinted if being hand reared with others.  He will undergo a soft release in the Autumn.

We have taken in 150, they are currently being assessed and treated before being rehomed later this week.

We always carryout home checks and offer free advice, so don’t worry if you have never had pet chickens before, we are here to help. They make very good pets and you can be happy knowing that you have given a hen a home much better from where they came.

We do have a waiting list for hens but should have some available from this batch, please get in touch if you can offer a couple of hens or more the chance to live a free and happy natural life.

Over the year we have looked after between 100 and 200 animals at any onetime.

Animal Successes of 2008

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We have rescued and rehomed over a hundred small animals including 71 Rabbits and many rats, mice,  gerbils and guinea pigs. These  are now in loving homes.

We have rescued over 50 wild birds including injured birds with broken wings and legs and have hand reared many baby chicks. We always aim to  release them back into the wild.

This young female pheasant had been shot, the bullet had gone completely through one leg breaking it, the bullet then penetrated the other leg. We splinted her broken leg and treated the other. She was later released back into the wild, miles from people who shoot for so called sport!

We received a phone call about this little chap that had fallen out of his nest, we were told that it looked like a Dodo?!

It is in fact a pigeon, he was hand reared along with many other baby birds this year and released into the wild, after spending time in our new aviary.

This is a baby hedgehog being hand reared. We are currently looking after three hedgehogs that are too small to hibernate, we will release them in the Spring.

300 girls are now in new loving homes and see natural light, something they previously never saw.

We have rescued and rehomed 300 ex-battery hens who, after their short lives confined to an area no larger than an A4 piece of paper, were destined for slaughter, to become pet food. Their only crime being that their egg production had fallen and they had become less profitable.

We rescued 8 pigs during the year, 3 that were destined for the meat trade and 5 unwanted pets.

This is Wally, he came to us at about 20 Kilo’s, he is now 160 kilos and still growing!

His mother Matilda was rescued by an animal sanctuary in Liverpool where she gave birth to 5 piglets, we took on Wilber, Wally, and Wendy. Like all pigs they are very affectionate, intelligent, clean and pine for your attention. Entertaining them whilst cleaning out their field each week is a military operation, all they want to do is play and be fussed!

We have rescued 8 goats. Betty and Belinda, two Pigmy goats spent 8 years at a garden centre before their owners decided to euthanase them. Fortunately they were rescued and we took them on. Unfortunately Belinda suffered a fatal heart attack in the summer. She was very obese probably from being constantly fed by visitors to the garden centre.

We also rescued 6 one week old baby goats and hand reared them. Goats like all mammals have to bear young each year to produce milk. The waste by-product of the milk industry is therefore lots of babies that no one wants.

We have rehomed two and the others now live with us, still awaiting a permanent home.

Thank you to all of our supporters and a Happy New Year

Jon and Beth

Brinsley Animal Rescue

We have now reunited Jaffa with her owner, she had been missing for two nights prior to us rescuing her, she’s a lucky girl and we’ll miss her.

He has now been moved on to a ferret rescue centre, awaiting a new home.  If you are able to offer this gorgeous little guy a home then contact Ferret Rescue at the below website.  Ferrets make great pets and with handling and castration we are hoping that someone will adopt this beautiful fella.

If you are able to offer a home to a ferret then please go to Ferret Rescue website Click Here

This young boy, now called Robert, was found in Bestwood. He came after being attacked by a dog, although he seems to have come off unscaved. We are not sure if he has escaped or been abandoned, as is happening all too often these days.

He has got a clean bill of health and has allready found a new home, thanks to BAR.