Too often with wildlife rescue, we have to let animals go to end suffering.
Today was such a case, we took a call for this grounded Heron. We easily caught them, thats never a good sign. A quick examination, they were extremely emaciated and weak.
A thorough examination at the vets revealed an old injury to his leg and an amputated toe. Its likely that this debilitating injury led to his decline.
We couldn’t save his life, we have undoubtedly saved him from suffering.
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…
Meet Bobby boy. Bobby on the right arrived this week, we needed a partner for Trudy Trotters, an abandoned pig we rescued a few weeks ago. Here you can see them meeting for the first time. Bobby is around a year old, like Trudy he is very friendly and loves attention, especially belly rubs which…
Due to the success of our 2015 Bring & Buy sale, we are holding another one on Sunday 24th April 2016 – 11am – 2pm at the sanctuary. We will have our famous Rocky Road cafe serving fab vegan and non vegan cakes, coffee, tea and cold drinks. A vintage clothes store, bric-a-brac, books, games…
We admitted this cygnet in the week, they were quite weak and found grounded in a housing estate. Its believed they’d crash-landed. Thankfully an examination hasn’t revelled any injuries and they are eating and drinking as well as hissing at us!! We are confident they’ll be released in the coming days.
The three grounded baby little owls we admitted in early June have all been successfully hand reared and released. Two arrived from the same location and very dirty, one of which had a couple of injuries, including trauma to the left eye, probably from falling from the nest. Its taken weeks of treatment including antibiotic…
It’s gone baby hedgehog crazy!!! Over the past week we have had endless calls about teenage size hedgehogs getting into difficulty. Most have come in dehydrated and on Friday night we had 3 in with maggots crawling all over them. Unfortunately we had to put 2 to sleep but with this little man we managed…
