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.
At this time of year the small and sick hedgehogs start to come in to us on an almost daily basis, many hogs that are too small to hibernate through the winter.
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 been dealing with a few swans of late, 5 in the past 2 weeks with 3 still in our care.On Sunday evening we went out to rescue this large male, so large he’s doesn’t even fit our swan bag and so we have improvised using blankets to wrap around him to safety contain…
Yesterday we moved four of our rescued sheep to a new home. They soon settled in and ran around exporting thier new life-long home. In their new home they have an acre of grass to share along with shelter where they can get out of the sun, rain or wind. You often see thousands of…
Gloria came to us from a member of the public when she was found wandering on Ikea car park. She was loved by all of our visitors at our sanctuary and will be missed.
At this time of year when the grass has stopped growing and our animals need to eat more and have warm bedding, our bills increase yet our income reduces. Have you considered buying our animals a present for Christmas and help with our running costs? To make a donation to buy feed, please Click Here….
