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.
We are normally very busy at the sanctuary, but when the weather turns cold, its non stop and there’s little time to rest. As well as all of the normal tasks like feeding, checking and cleaning all of the animals, its a non stop battle to keep the animals with fresh unfrozen water. All of the rabbits…
These two female piggies are among the very few lucky ones, two of 5 that people have offered homes for this year. They came to us 18 months ago, another pair of unwanted pet pigs.It is not just general pets such as rabbits and cats that we received so many requests to take on, sadly…
Meet Juno, Penny, Celeste and Annie. Over recent weeks our equine population has mushroomed!. We now have 17 ponies residing in our fields and many more in foster care. When the answer machine message came through these 4 were destined for slaughter. They have all had foals in the past and have been relatively unhandled…
All creatures great and small. These two wild mice arrived yesterday cold and dehydrated, once they had been warmed up on a heat pad, we started feeding. Over 24 hours on and still very early days, thier eyes have started to open, they are taking hourly feeds and they are quite lively. Feeding rearing milk…
We have now released our two swifts that can to us as chicks a few weeks ago. We have hand reared them, until the point where they were ready for release. If grounded, swifts cannot take off, so its important to get it right and watch over them. We let them take off in a…
