Another pigeon squab arrives to be hand reared.
This squab needed rescuing, he was on the floor having fallen out of the nest. Far too often fledglings are picked up which should not be disturbed.
Pigeons make great parents, but they aren’t very clever at making secure nests, they often resemble a pile of twigs and not much more.
Fluffy here will now need to be tube fed until eating on his own.
We have admitted yet another patient injured by fishing line, this time a tawny owl. On admission he was a very sorry state, a very bedraggled lifeless owl. We carefully cut away and entangled the line, ensuring we removed it all without causing him injury. The line was wrapped around his body and a wing,…
Two weeks ago we collected a female swan from a nearby lake, she was very weak and kept collapsing. We examined her, she was thin but there was nothing obvious. So off to our local vets she went for an X-Ray. in the past we have had very poorly swans in, that have swallowed fisherman’s…
Today we have rescued 200 commercial hens, these had reached the end of their “commercial life” and were due to be sent for slaughter. Please get in touch if you can offer life-long homes for rescued hens. We ask for photos of enclosures and your set up, so that we are confident that it is spacious…
Today, Jasper one of our Dartmoor ponies found a great new home with a gorgeous little mare for company. He was so excited at his new home and his new friend was loving the company. And the good news is that the home he has gone too may have room to squeeze in one more!!…
Meet Colin, a rescued stray pig. Unfortunately we get inundated with calls to take on unwanted pets, pigs are no exception to this, sadly we have to many away away every week, we can only take them more in when we have space, space created when people rehome rescued animals that we have. This chap…
We don’t go out to rescue trapped animals, with working full time whilst running the sanctuary, we struggle to cope with that let alone going out rescuing even more creatures. Today though we could not say no when a couple turned up telling us about a hedgehog, that had been trapped for at least two…
