This is a lucky Collard dove, we found him at the sanctuary, grounded and immobilised due to a broken left leg, broken in two places.
We swiftly splinted the leg and put him in a cage for rest and rehabilitation. He certainly chose the right place to get a broken leg!
Meet Walter and Eddie, the latest handsome boys to join the sheep herd. They are Jacob sheep from a school farm project. It’s forecast to rain all week so they’ll have to wait a bit longer for us to get their enormous winter woolly coats off.
There have been many tears at the sanctuary as we have lost our battle to save our gentle giant. Billy went down last week and had to be helped up again, during the week he has been quite mobile and we were quietly confident, however on Friday he went downhill rapidly, the kindest last act…
This year will be the first time that Brinsley Animal Rescue will be represented at the London Marathon!! Look out for our T shirt on TV footage. Friend and supporter Adrian from the Bluebird Cafe in Nottingham has been training and running for a number of years. This year Adrian has gained a place by…
The Brinsley Carnival is held every year, it was a great opportunity for us to meet our new community, having moved into the area only a year ago. As well as meeting many people, we managed to raise some much needed funds. We were though very disappointed to find that goldfish were being given away in…
Today we rehomed Primrose to an amazing home where we just know she’ll be so happy. When we rescued her, she was a solitary pig, living in what can only be described as a building site full of debris and no grass. Primrose now lives in a huge field with three other piggies, she’s a…
This little chap is Walter, he is now only 8 days old and being hand reared. Born on 28 December, Walters 5 other siblings unfortunately died, we received a call to take on the only survivor. We are having to feed him every two hours during the day and 4 hours over night, without having mum around, he is under a heat…
