We often refer to Spring as the silly season, that’s because we get a constant precession of baby animals that need rescuing, everything from pigeons to foxes, hedgehogs to birds of prey.
These two chaps are scwabs, baby wood pigeons.
Unfortunately due to limited resources, we cannot cope with the shear number of calls to take the animals in, is very sad, but we can only care for so many.
In 2011 we were granted planning permission to convert a large garage, which we will use to treat wildlife that comes into the charity. We have been working very hard raising the funds for this vital work, now with £8,000 raised so far, we are able to start the first stage. Now the the garage…
This weekend we took Willow and Dancer to their new life-long home.We have been working with these lovely girls for months now, training them so that they can be handled, hooves trimmed and get use to vets examinations. On the day they loaded into the horse box with ease and behaved impeccably on arrival at…
A big operation for a little fella! Sadly last week our vet confirmed that Minty, our little Welsh pony who we took on nearly a year ago, needs to go to a referral clinic, for a complicated castration (geld). We had hoped that he would be ready by now, for the normal procedure that we carry out…
You think you’ve got your day all planned out and then a little bedraggled baby owl turns up in a box that needs your help urgently!! Look at that little face!! He’s now nice and warm and had a really good feed. Phew. Let’s hope he’s going to be okay. We’ve initially got him on…
Animal Friends Insurance provide insurance for pets. they have set themselves an amazing challenge of raising £1million by the end of 2012. So far they have raised £450,000. Each month they chose 4 animal charities, each will recive at least £1,500 if the get at least 100 votes, second place gets £3,500 and first £5,000….
These three guys have joined our ever growing population of goats.
