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 plastic bags to very young children, by one of the events at the fair.
This is irresponsible, cruel and contrary to the Animal Protection Act.
Meet sweet and petite Callie who will soon be ready for a loving, life-long home. Callie had been living rough since at least March so we don’t know her history, we do know that she is very affectionate. We will be ensuring that she is spayed, fully vaccinated, wormed and microchipped before adoption. Being a…
This week has been like no other, we had the terrible loss of Herbie our bull, on Tuesday, only three days later yesturday, we said goodbye to our beautiful Maisy Moo. Maisy Moo was hand reared by a farmer’s granddaughter and kept as a pet after Maisy’s mum died during birth, when the farm closed…
The term ‘breeding like rabbits’ has a lot of truth! Sadly by the time many people have realised this it is far too late. A female rabbit has the ability to become pregnant again straight after she has given birth. The gestation of a rabbit is only approximately 30 days so perhaps you can see…
Having felt quite pleased with ourselves for recently homing lots of rabbits and guinea pigs we have now had a sudden influx of them. Next weekend we have over 20 rabbits and guinea pigs coming in to the rescue centre. We are trying to get all the bunnies neutered and vaccinated as soon as possible…
We don’t often rescue birds of prey, but when we do we are amazed by their beauty. This guy we believe has been handled and kept in a very small cage where he could not fly. Therefore he has little muscle tone and cannot currently be released into the wild.
This is the time of year when we have lots of wildlife especially young birds, fox cubs, hedgehogs etc.Much has come to us for good reason such as these goslings that came separately, having been observed as for sometime and confirmed separated from their parents. Unfortunately with good intentions, lots of people pick up wildlife…
