What Is RAW ( Rabbit Awareness Week) ? RAW is the UK’s biggest campaign for rabbit welfare. With rabbits being the UK’s 4th most popular pet with around 0.8 million rabbits in households to day, it still holds the title as one of the most understood pets to date. RAW is run by Burgess Pet…
This week we have taken on a further 120 ex-battery hens that would otherwise be slaughtered. The farm in Norfolk where we fetched them from, was emptying their sheds, replacing 20,000 birds with young hens, to keep the egg yield high. We couldn’t rescue all 20,000 hens that are probably only around 18 months old, but…
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…
This week we have rescued a further 200 hens from a commercial caged farm in Cambridge, these hens would have otherwise been killed for pet food or cheap pies. Egg laying hens have a bleak life, as soon as they lay eggs around 16 weeks, they are confined into overcrowded cages, with little of their…
Update on Greta from her operation on Friday. She’s taken it all in her stride and not bothered one bit! Her fosterer has tried to take her out of the litter so that the stitches wouldn’t get ripped out during their rough play but little Greta wanted to be with her siblings so much that…
