Springtime brings all manner of baby animals to our door to be hand reared and hedgehogs are no exception.
This little one is one of three being hand reared on milk formula at the moment, in a couple of weeks or so well start to wean off milk onto meat.
This time of year is really hard for us, trying to hold down full time jobs whilst animals turn up, sometimes hourly. Hand rearing them throughout the day and sometimes night is not easy, we have no social life.
You may have noticed that we are not hosting a Spring Open Day this years, we are thou hosting a fundraiser at Brinsley Community Centre on 2 June. Our next open day at the Sanctuary is not until 8 September, this is due to a major building project at the sanctuary which has now started….
Meet the girls, Daisy, Petal and Mary, and Petal’s two kids, Ronnie and Rosie. These family is very lucky to have been rescued, they are not in great health. The three Nanny adults were bought by the previous owners of a farm, who could no longer keep them. All of them have severely overgrown hooves. One mother…
We have been putting aside funds for a while now, to buy a tractor and make life a little easier at the sanctuary. This week we finally took delivery of our 35 year old David Brown which has been lovingly restored, Vera as we have named her is a real beauty. Vera will be used…
These two guys were found orphaned, a member of the public was doing a great job in hand rearing them and feeding them with the right food, this is often not the case. If you find an orphaned wild animal, keep it warm, dry and quiet, do not attempt to force feed it or give it…
This newly born piglet was found abandoned and defenceless; she would not have survived more than a few more hours without her mother. The people who found her contacted a nearby farm where she no doubt came from, they were told to “throw it in the ditch”, luckily they cared, they kept her warm and brought…
Percy is a commercial pig who we rescued some 4 years ago, he was the only pig to have survived when the farmer had neglected his pigs and all but Percy had starved to death. Percy is very happy with us and lives with Molly, another commercial pig and so it is unlikely that we’ll…
