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.
We had a wonderful bring and buy sale today, thank you to everyone who helped us over the past few weeks preparing and the many that helped on the day, some are still here now cleaning up. A huge amount of work goes into making these events a success, we cannot do it without the…
During the weekend when we have time off from our full time jobs, we are crazily busy rescuing animals, this weekend was no different.In between taking Matilda and her babies to their new home and taking in Harry another rescued farm pig, we squeezed in a two-hour round trip to home these lonely sheep. This…
Bertie and Beano came to us a few months ago, bought from a breeder but then given up by the owners after only a few weeks. We have wormed and vaccinated them and found them a great home in Sheffield where they have loads of room in a large field, a spacious barn and other…
At the sanctuary we receive calls at all times of day and night, not easy when we also work for a living, sometimes when we return home the voice mail is full and we have to prioritise the return calls. Last night we took two calls around midnight, one was for these two beautiful Doves. A member of the public found these two birds just…
These young hedgehogs or hoglets as they are known, were found wandering in the daytime. Hedgehogs are nocturnal so a hog out in the daytime is usually a sign that something is wrong. These two are weaned off their mother but are too small for this time of year. They need to be above 500 grams…
Another day and another patient. We collected this Little Owl from a school, he was found at the base of a tree. The owl was quite dirty, you can see the debris falling off him on the examination table, he has a swollen eye and torn skin. It is probable that the injuries were sustained…
