This week we have rescue 130 commercial barn hens going for slaughter. they are approximately 18 months old and came from a farm in Staffordshire. We now need homes for them to make space for another rescue.
If you can offer any a permanent home to be kept as pets, please email us with details of how many hens you can offer a home and pictures of your set up, we need to be happy that its fox proof and large enough.
Its frantic here as always, especially at the weekend when we are off work. So Friday evening we rescued Matilda and 9 piglets, yesterday we had a number of wildlife admissions, collected 3 goats from wales and admitted some unwanted pet rabbits. Today we have had more wildlife admissions including this quick turn around. This…
2012 was another challenging year for us, what with the appalling weather, a summer and winter of mud, but most of all, the sheer increasing number of calls to take in unwanted pets. Pets Unfortunately too many people treat pets as the disposable commodity, it is all too easy to get a pet without any checks, advice or neutering, then give it up. As…
Although Wilbur is only middle aged, around 6, he is very arthritic and cannot be kept outdoors over winter any longer, we need to get him indoors. Wilbur came to us with his brother and sister as rescued piglets, being factory farmed pigs bred for their meat, they grow unnaturally large, this puts a lot…
Meet Humphrey, a stray / abandoned cat that has been handed into a vets with injuries, he isn’t chipped, he is now in our care. We have treated his wounds and will be ensuring he has full blood tests and vaccinations, he is allready castrated. He needs a loving life-long home. Humphrey is very sweet,…
These piglets, probably around 2 days old, were dumped in the suburbs of London. They first went to a large national animal welfare organisation, unfortunately they said that they were too difficult to rear and they were going to be destroyed. Thank goodness, the vets who originally found them, decided they would not let this…
This wild duck is another victim of careless fishing, she was observed with a fishing hook and line through her foot, thankfully a member of the public waded in to the lake to rescue her and bring to us.She was understandably distressed, we needed to get the barbed hook out of her food, treat her…
