Percy, Penelope and Pumbaa went to their new home.
It was an early start for us this morning, who gets up at 5am on a weekend! Today it was a 2 hour drive to their beautiful new home.
This trio of siblings were an unwanted litter They are very lucky that we were able to take them in, many more we have to say no too. In fact this afternoon as soon as their enclosure was cleaned out, another pig moved in. You can hear about Derek in
a later post.
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,…
This handsome barn owl came to us a few weeks ago after being involved in a car collision. When we saw that one of the legs was broken we feared the worst as he had no feeling in the leg, but, after we had X-rays carried out and after much discussion with our amazing vet…
We have rescued 80 ex-battery chickens this week, taking our total for the year to over 400. These poor girls live an awful life, in extremely cramped cages, each hen has no more space than an A4 piece of paper. The flock is usually sent for slaughter at 12 to 18 months and replaced with new…
This Tawny Owl has this week been successfully released back into the wild, we now have another Tawny Owl and Kestrel being prepared for soft release.This Tawny was the victim of a road traffic accident, he had been hit by a car and grounded. An X-Ray reveled that he’d received a broken wing however we…
The dire situation with unwanted pets never seems to improve, there is a myth that we are a nation of animals lovers, unfortunately after running an animal sanctuary for almost 7 years now, we could can dispel that myth. Every single day we receive calls to take on unwanted animals, the majority of which we…
‘Gentle George’ has had a few homes in his time but we hope that this time it is his forever home with his new lady friend. He headed off into the sunshine a couple of weeks ago and is doing really well with someone that is more his own size! We still have quite a…
