On 20 August we had three very young squirrels delivered to us, these were found by a member of the public that had disturbed them whilst cleaning a chimney. Unfortunately the mother left her three babies and was too frightened to return.
We are now hand rearing all three, this is very time consuming, feeding them every 3 hours and then mimicking all the natural motherly actions, like teaching them to go to the toilet after feeding.
This weekend we took Willow and Dancer to their new life-long home.We have been working with these lovely girls for months now, training them so that they can be handled, hooves trimmed and get use to vets examinations. On the day they loaded into the horse box with ease and behaved impeccably on arrival at…
Willow has been with us for a few weeks now, we rescued him from a life of neglect and cruelty, we didn’t want to commit to yet another mouth to feed, but we had to find space for him somehow. Willow, a male Welsh Pony has been very ill-treated, he has scares from being hit by his former keeper. Despite being horribly…
Meet our latest rescued sheep, this little girl has escaped almost certain death. Our currently unnamed lamb, was found by a member of the public on their garden patio of all places. So she was contained whilst they tried to locate her owners. Through her ear tag, she was traced back to a farm who…
This week we have have done exceptionally well re-homing pigs, in fact we have successfully re-homed 6, which is twice as many as we have re-homed in the past two years! Although great news, we have had to turn as many away. These two girls were re-homed today, originally the poor girls were dumped as piglets…
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…
Today we rescued 3 Dartmoor Ponies that were due to be shot this morning for pet food! Once more we find this sad situation. Yet again many young Dartmoor Ponies are facing slaughter as the unwanted ponies become animal feed. A century ago 30,000 of these ponies roamed the moors, now just 1,500 remain. They…
