Gloria De-Piero MP for Ashfield paid a visit to the sanctuary today. I think she was a bit overwhelmed by Boris the bull who was wandering around but he loved the attention. She saw the progress of the wildlife hospital and had a look at some of the animals we are currently caring for.
It’s been another truly long day with a production line of 5 castrates to do now we are having cold weather. With many of the animals here we have to wait for the colder weather to carry out these necessary ops due to the risk of fly strike. It’s very sad that we usually get…
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…
Percy is a commercial pig who we rescued some 4 years ago, he was the only pig to have survived when the farmer had neglected his pigs and all but Percy had starved to death. Percy is very happy with us and lives with Molly, another commercial pig and so it is unlikely that we’ll…
Meet Weebo, he has recently come in to the sanctuary. His story is one we hear far too often, a person who bought a so called “micro pig” which has now grown too large. Weebo is only 10 months old, he’s actually small for a pig, he has a few more years of growing to…
On Friday night, after dropping off the pony gorgeous George to his new home we got back thinking we might be able to go and catch some abandoned goats in Gunthorpe……………no chance!!! We got back to find a couple with a very poorly tawny owl on our doorstep. This little guy was found in the…
Although Wilbur is only middle aged, around 6, he is very arthritic and cannot be kept outdoors over winter any longer, we need to get him indoors. Wilbur came to us with his brother and sister as rescued piglets, being factory farmed pigs bred for their meat, they grow unnaturally large, this puts a lot…
