Too often with wildlife rescue, we have to let animals go to end suffering.
Today was such a case, we took a call for this grounded Heron. We easily caught them, thats never a good sign. A quick examination, they were extremely emaciated and weak.
A thorough examination at the vets revealed an old injury to his leg and an amputated toe. Its likely that this debilitating injury led to his decline.
We couldn’t save his life, we have undoubtedly saved him from suffering.
We have just taken on Joe the Ram, he is a young and friendly entire Ram. He is now sharing a field with 5 turkeys, 2 goats and 2 ponies. He greets us every day, patiently waiting for us. In the next few weeks we can get him castrated, he can then join our other…
Harold was dumped in a field and left to fend for himself. We were called by the land owner. Harold isn’t in fantastic shape and he has certainly been neglected. His hooves were very overgrown, his coat mattered and he has mites. Once he arrived, we trimmed his hooves to stop foot rot, trimmed his…
Today Ronnie ent to his new home. We rescued Ronnie back in November last year, he was a stray pig, he followed a guy home whilst out walking his dog. Ronnie was entire and very nervous, over the weeks we have been working with him to help him gain his confidence. He was castrated 3…
This poor girl was found wandering around in a car park with no sign of mum, so she was was brought to us. She is around 12 weeks old and is unfortunately blind in both eyes, she also has signs of having been attacked. She has a torn ear and a couple of infected wounds. She is…
Brownie, the wild rabbit we rescued a couple of months ago has made a full recovery. Unfortunately we had to give her a lot of physiotherapy on the leg that she kept dragging behind her and this has made her a very imprinted little rabbit. For this reason she can never be released back into…
Valentines day isn’t just for humans, it is also for those other intelligent creatures such as piggies. You may remember that Woody, who was dumped into the street and found wandering around Mansfield Woodhouse last year, was re-homed. Well things didn’t quite work out and he came back, but not for long. We have since…
