A few weeks ago our friends at Brook Farm Animal Sanctuary took in 30 sheep from a gentleman who could no longer care for them. We are helping by taking on 6 ewes, and they have made good friends with our resident ram, Jakey.
The ewes are now all wormed, hooves trimmed and wool sheared, so they are looking for a permanent, life-long home.
We don’t manage to find homes for geese too often, this year we haven’t done too bad with our third pair finding really great homes. This pair are now living on an arable farm along with chickens and ducks. Not everyone likes geese, they do make really good guard dogs, raising the alarm to any…
Hedgehogs arrive with all kinds of life threatening issues, generally inflicted by man, anything from poisons to getting tangled in garden netting or attacked by dogs. We don’t know the history behind this girl, but she arrived at our vets with a broken jaw, a condition certainly seen before and often fatal. In this case,…
On Saturday we re-homed Oliver, Oscar and Olive to a great new home in Northampton. Oliver and Oscar were rescued last year, along with their two brothers who were homed in 2011. They all came from a breeder that threaten to destroy these unsold piglets. Olive came to us two months ago from people who could no longer keep her. These guys have fortunately found…
We have admitted yet another patient injured by fishing line, this time a tawny owl. On admission he was a very sorry state, a very bedraggled lifeless owl. We carefully cut away and entangled the line, ensuring we removed it all without causing him injury. The line was wrapped around his body and a wing,…
Back in April we took in this doe Roe Deer, she was admitted to our hospital during our Spring Open Day. This poor girl had been hit by a car and sustained injuries all over her body, in particular her legs. After a course of antibiotics & pain killers for severe infection to one of…
Yesterday we took in 6 goslings. A member of the public stopped when they saw thier mother trying to cross the A52 with her babies and tragically she was killed, thankfully sombody stopped and managed to catch the goslings. When they arrived they were certainly quite traumatised and wouldn’t settle, we added 2 older goslings…
