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 them every 3 hours and then mimicking all the natural motherly actions, like teaching them to go to the toilet after feeding.
We don’t go out to rescue trapped animals, with working full time whilst running the sanctuary, we struggle to cope with that let alone going out rescuing even more creatures. Today though we could not say no when a couple turned up telling us about a hedgehog, that had been trapped for at least two…
These two female piggies are among the very few lucky ones, two of 5 that people have offered homes for this year. They came to us 18 months ago, another pair of unwanted pet pigs.It is not just general pets such as rabbits and cats that we received so many requests to take on, sadly…
Hedgehogs suffer some horrific garden injuries, many are too severe to survive. This young boy was lucky that he was found and came to us in time. His wound was deep and infected, he was in pain, very cold and dehydrated, all the signs of a garden incident from a strimmer or mower.The priority in…
Our Christmas Open day is not long away, this year we’ll be holding it on Sunday 30 November, we hope you can join us to raise vital funds for our rescue centre. Click Here to Download our Poster Xmas open day 2014 We will open up the rescue centre from 11am until 4pm, admission is only £1 for…
Unfortunately it’s quite rare for the charity to receive large donations, however we are extremely pleased to accept a donation of £6,500 from GWA Supplies. When GWA formed recently to supply parts and services to the wind turbine industry, they chose Brinsley Animal Rescue as their chosen charity, this generous company donate a portion of…
