Last night was spent rehydrating hoglets and picking fly eggs and maggots from them, Ugh.
Painstaking but worth it if they all survive. What I actually wanted to be doing was trying a new recipe for cookies, making a spicy quinoa salad and applying a Lush facemask. Sadly a 1am finish, a stale sandwich and none of the above wishlist!! At least all hogs are doing ok today and seem to be eating like little troopers.
This young mallard duckling has been with us for a week now and doing well. The duckling was found on its own, with no parents around or any other ducklings. It can be quite difficult to rear single ducklings as they can become quite stressed and withdrawn on their own, constantly crying for their parents, fortunately this chap has done well…
Today we rehomed Primrose to an amazing home where we just know she’ll be so happy. When we rescued her, she was a solitary pig, living in what can only be described as a building site full of debris and no grass. Primrose now lives in a huge field with three other piggies, she’s a…
THANK YOU TO COMPASSIONATE DERBY We would like to say a very big thank you to everyone involved in the organisation of Compassionate Derby event. Everyone worked so hard and it was great team effort! Thanks to you all for offering your time and skills! A grand total of £1,241.34 was raised for our animal…
Meat Bean and Bertie, two of the latest rabbits that arrived at the rescue separately today. Bean a castrated and vaccinate boy (white lop), will be ready for adoption shortly. Bertie, the big eared beauty had been dumped to fend for himself. He is very lucky to have been found as domestic bunnies don’t survive…
Three years ago, we took a call to see if we would take in four piglets that had been dumped in a bucket, outside a vets in London. We took them in, they had just been born, their umbilical cords still attached. We successfully hand reared them, sadly, when the boys went to be castrated,…
The three grounded baby little owls we admitted in early June have all been successfully hand reared and released. Two arrived from the same location and very dirty, one of which had a couple of injuries, including trauma to the left eye, probably from falling from the nest. Its taken weeks of treatment including antibiotic…
