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 stragglers and they can be quite intimidating. We love them, but some of our volunteers I’m sure will be a little relieved, but it won’t be long before we are asked to rescue some more.
It’s certainly been an emotionally challenging week for us all, after losing Boris late Saturday night, we have now had to say goodnight to Harry yesterday. Harry came to us from Little Pigs at Home Animal Sanctuary, he is a commercial pig who had been abandoned by a farmer who’d moved on leaving Harry to…
As soon as the three boys move to their new home, Derek Trotters arrives. Derek is a young male and so has a lot of energy and growing to do. He’s very sweet, we couldn’t let him live on his own and we have the perfect match. Betty has been with us for exactly a…
In recent weeks we had been releasing hedgehogs but then due to unseasonably hot weather with no rainfall we stopped again! One of our hibernating hedgehogs also only woke up last week and even then needed a little encouragement to venture out of a very large, warm nest! Thank goodness we now have some rainfall…
We have had a really productive week in terms of re-homing with lots of bunnies going to new homes and last Sunday Minty the pony found a perfect forever home with a new friend. Minty had been with us for nearly 2 years as a nervous little pony whose previous owner was prosecuted. It took…
It’s been a full on day today at the rescue and it was ‘C’ day for our little boy Ollie. Our lovely @the.stray.vet who is leaving us to go travelling (no, we can’t believe it either!!!) carried out the procedure and we’re glad to say little Ollie is already up and on his feet rummaging…
This young Sparrow Hawk came to us with an injured right wing. Fortunately for this beautiful bird the damage is repairable. The wing is now tied back to allow it to heal, the bird will be kept confined for around 4 weeks before being moved to a large aviary and prepared for release. Update 27 September Today…
