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.
In 2011 we were granted planning permission to convert a large garage, which we will use to treat wildlife that comes into the charity. We have been working very hard raising the funds for this vital work, now with £8,000 raised so far, we are able to start the first stage. Now the the garage…
We have been around for over a decade now and we have steadily grown year on year, being able to care for more varieties and numbers of animals. The following graphs are from our records. The first shows the total number of animals we rescue each year, this is on average around 800 each year,…
The warm weather is finally upon us and so we can shear the sheep to ensure that they don’t get too hot or get fly strike. As we need every penny to go along way in helping animals, we don’t pay anyone to sheer the sheep, we do it ourselves, volunteers work for free! We…
This week we have taken on yet another unwanted pig. She came with the name Charlotte but as we already have a pony with the same name we have renamed her Penny. Yesterday we set about introducing her to Rocky our Kune Kune pig thinking that he might like a friend. Unfortunately he didn’t take too kindly…
We don’t manage to find homes for geese too often, this year we haven’t done too bad with our third pair finding really great homes. This pair are now living on an arable farm along with chickens and ducks. Not everyone likes geese, they do make really good guard dogs, raising the alarm to any…
Meet sweat little Trudy Trotters, the new addition to the group of pigs we are looking to rehome. Trudy was found a stray, no owners have came forward, it is possible and in fact probable, that she was in fact dumped as is all too often. She is safe with us now, we are looking…
