Vale Wildlife Hospital & Rehabilitation Centre

Wildlife First Aid Course

Are you interested in learning more about how to look after injured wildlife?

Our course, 'Basic Wildlife First Aid & Rehabilitation'

is now running regularly on-site in Beckford.

The 2-day course, run over a weekend will benefit you whether you

are looking to take up a career in wildlife rehabilitation or you just want to know
what to do if you come across an injured wildlife casualty one day.

The cost of the course is £95.

If you want more information or would like to book a place
or enquire about future dates for the course please
contact Caroline on 01386 882288 or email caroline@valewildlife.org.uk

3 May 2009

Badly injured muntjac fawn

We have now had a third muntjac deer fawn brought in, I estimate only 10-14 days old. He has been badly attacked by something, my guess being a dog but I can't be sure. He has some bite wounds to his head and neck which aren't too serious but he also has a fractured skull which makes the prognosis for his survival pretty poor.
Feeding him is the most difficult task as I have to be so careful when handling him because of his head injury and he gets so stressed when he is handled that it has been impossible to bottle feed him like the other two muntjacs we have. At the moment he has to be anaesthetised in order for us to tube feed him without causing him too much stress.
I will keep you updated on his progress and we are all keeping our fingers crossed but I am not getting my hopes up too much.

A word of warning...again. Please DO NOT feed bread to birds in your garden. We have had three cases lately where people have picked up a newly-fledged bird (when they should all have been left alone), and fed them bread for over 24 hours before bringing them in to us. Bread does them no good at all, in fact it can often kill a bird, especially if this is all it is fed. If a bird really does need rescuing, get it to a rescue centre immediately where it will be fed the correct food from the start.

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