Climate change means that hedgehogs are having second broods quite late in the season. We are getting quite a few young hogs in that weigh around 120g. At this weight a hedgehog will not survive the winter. If you see small hedgehogs out particularly during the day then give us a ring. These 2 in…
Today, after we finished all of the normal daily morning chores, we headed off the Newark where Venus a female rabbit found a lovely life long home with a boy bunny. Then we headed off to Yorkshire to collect Barney, a 7 year old pygmy goat. Barney had been living all on his own since…
We are truly devastated beyond words, there have been many tears shed as last night our amazing blind bull Boris passed away. The sanctuary will never be the same without our truly amazing gentle giant, who adored human contact and interaction and was an inspiration to us all. Boris Bull was 14, an amazing age…
On Saturday we re-homed Oliver, Oscar and Olive to a great new home in Northampton. Oliver and Oscar were rescued last year, along with their two brothers who were homed in 2011. They all came from a breeder that threaten to destroy these unsold piglets. Olive came to us two months ago from people who could no longer keep her. These guys have fortunately found…
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…
Today has been super busy, but so is every day here.As well as several birds being admitted, we went out to rescue this fox cub, trapped in garden plastic clutter. The cub had got his head well and truly stuck inside a plastic globe in a garden.Thankfully we had volunteers at hand to collect the…
