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When injured wildlife is admitted we have to initially assess the viability of a successful release, is there a realistic chance of a full recovery and being able to be released, taking into account the stress the animal will endure whilst in captivity receiving treatment. This process is continual, we assess every day, looking for improvements and assessing any changes needed in their treatment plans. We always make the decision to continue or euthanise, based in the best interest of the animal. In this case, we made the right decision in this buzzard's rehabilitation, he was released back into the wild last weekend. The buzzard arrived with some nasty injuries to his head and body, on top of these injuries he had no use of his right leg. They were initially admitted to another rescue in Essex, who provided triage, a full assessment including x-rays and provided the initial treatment. As we have a past record of successful bird of prey rehabilitation, they asked us to continue with the treatment. They arrived needing daily treatment for the wounds, they needed to be force fed and medication including pain relief. A couple of weeks in and they were eating themselves and so it was time to move to an aviary to help destress and continue recovery. Slowly and progressively they improved, they started using the leg fully, they could fly, perch, eat prey, it was time to let them go!!! We love happy endings like this!
Our Heron rescue makes the news.
We had a great open day on Sunday, thank you to all of our hard working volunteers that made this possible, to all of the companies who donated raffle prizes, beer and items to sell, thank you to everyone who came to support the day. After running costs such as our event insurance, toilet hire, Events License etc, we raised just over £5,000. As we are all volunteers and the land and buildings are donated free of charge to the charity by Jon and Beth, the £5,000 goes a long way in helping the charity save lives. Thank you !!
Another 4 mallard ducklings released, only another 45 to go!
It’s our open day this Sunday. Hopefully the sun will come out as we have lots of lovely stalls and our volunteers have been busy preparing things, baking cakes and creating games. We’ll have food and cake stalls as well as a licensed bar. Hope to see you all then. #fundraising #charity #nottinghamcharity #brinsley #animalrescue #adoptdontshop
Hardly a day goes by without us receiving a call to help rescue wildlife caught up in fisherman's line or tackle, in most case we are not able to help particularly when the birds are on water. We do though occasionally have successes, you may remember this heron we recued a few weeks ago. This chap was badly tangled up in fishing line, so badly that they could not move from the banks of a canal. We were made aware but it took us several days before we had volunteers available and worked out how we could safely access, so after 4 days the bird was very weak. They were taken straight to our vets to be gassed down to remove the fishing line and fully assessed, they were then admitted to our wildlife hospital on a drip. For the next few days we tube fed with special rehabilitation feed before moving onto whole fish. Three weeks later they were in an aviary and finally feeding themselves before thier release this morning.
This is a perfect post from @theretreat.animalsanctuary who highlight the problems with school hatching projects. We loose track of how many times we get contacted by schools asking us to take in the unwanted hatched out chicks from these. What on earth does this teach our children?? When I was young I remember having one at our primary school and I pestered Mr Midgley incessantly about what was going to happen to the chicks. I never got an answer and I knew what was happening was so wrong. These projects teach children that bringing sentient beings into the world and then casting them aside is ok. It’s shameful and needs to stop! Why should already overstretched rescues be asked to take in the unwanted animals? If schools want to teach the cycle of life and eggs hatching there is a live webcam on the Newton building of Nottingham Trent university with peregrine falcons sitting on eggs every year where you can witness the whole life cycle and see wild animals bringing up their young naturally. We implore schools to do this instead of nonsensical and unethical hatching projects. #stopschoolhatchingprojects #hatchingprojects #educateproperly #educatecompassion #stopanimalabuse #nottinghamanimalrescue
Can you please help raise funds for us by sponsoring Megan age 10 and Ryan age 15 who are attempting to complete the Yorkshire 3 peaks challenge on September 6th 2025, all money raised will come to us to help with our running costs. Its great to see young persons doing something very positive for good causes, we can't thank them enough.
The first of the 43 ducklings in our care have been released back into the wild.
We always do our very best with animals admitted into our care, sometimes all of our efforts just aren't enough. This male Mallard arrived with very laboured breathing, in fact he was mouth breathing. We put him immediately onto oxygen and this helped, he was also very thin. Once settled we gave fluids and tube fed him. The next day he had improved and he went off to our vets who x-rayed. This reviewed shadowing on the lungs, consistent with aspergillosis, a fungal infection which can seriously effect the ability of the lungs to absorbed oxygen into the blood, hence laboured breathing.
This brood of blue tit chicks was found on the floor last week, we initially thought we might loose 1 or 2 but they are all doing well. These are just 4 of the many mouths we need to feed at this time of year. Songbirds take a lot of commitment, feeding from 5am until pm and at this young age, every 20 minutes.
So many duckings in our care, it's amazing the lengths people go to save animals, truly amazing!
Another 12 mallard ducklings have been admitted today, we now have over 40 in separate groups! The 12 were as a result of yet another RTA, in this case the dyeing mother was in the centre reservation of the M1, her distressed babies were by her side. Amazingly some HGV drivers created a rolling road block, so that the ducklings could be safely rescued and later brought to us. We find it truly amazing that people would go to such lengths to save baby wildlife, simply inspiring and regains faith in humanity, well done all!
This Saturday we’ll be serving up some epic Ve-babs at the @sumaccentreuk and raising much needed funds for the sudden influx of cats we have taken in. The amazing Dice Men will also be playing throughout the evening and hopefully theyll be playing classics like ‘Johnny Lanzarote’ and ‘the panini song’. Food is a suggested donation of £5 and cakes are sold seperately after your meal. There is a licensed bar and all are welcome although arrive on time to avoid disappointment as once it’s gone it’s gone!! For £10 you can have a fabulous night out and support your local rescue. Winner winner! Hope to see you all there. All food is 100% vegan. #fundraising #animalrescue #nottinghamcharity #veganfoodnottingham #nottinghamvegans #sumaccentre #charityfundraising #adoptdontshop #vebabs
As another crazy bank holiday draws to a close it’s been crazy busy for the rescue. More wildlife in and a mum cat gave birth on someone’s bed at a local campsite! Another dumped rabbit was also found wandering about and handed in. We’ve already blood tested mum cat and vaccinated the stray female rabbit that came in. The kittens already have potential homes too so we will make sure all these animals will be neutered to help stop the epidemic of unwanted and stray animals that’s we get calls about daily.😔 #adoptdontshop #neuteryourpets #neutercats #unwantedkittens #nottinghamcatrescue #nottinghamrabbitrescue #nottinghamanimalrescue
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