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
Still busy
We are well into July, usually our busiest month of the year for casualty numbers and we are certainly very busy with a large number of birds in particular being brought in. Many, many catted fledgling birds and sadly too many coming in much too late for antibiotics to do any good. If a bird has been caught by a cat, even if there are no obvious injuries, they must receive life-saving antibiotic treatment within a few hours otherwise they are very likely to develop blood poisoning.
A very happy ending to one of our stories - the RTA male otter that we have been treating for a week made a full recovery and last Saturday we took him back for release at a fantastic site (pictured) not too far from where he was hit by a car. It was amazing to watch him go and although he was a bit reluctant to leave the carrying box initially, he soon realised that he was home and started exploring one of several pools that he was released into. A very happy ending.
A couple of exotics have been brought in lately by the RSPCA. Firstly, an Asian Water Dragon, a stray found in someones garden and most recently, and probably the most unusual animal we have ever taken in, an American striped skunk!! Despite their reputation she is really cute, only a youngster and she has settled in well. She does smell a bit, but so far she hasn't used her main defence, spraying, and we are hoping she doesn't decide to start!!.
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We are well into July, usually our busiest month of the year for casualty numbers and we are certainly very busy with a large number of birds in particular being brought in. Many, many catted fledgling birds and sadly too many coming in much too late for antibiotics to do any good. If a bird has been caught by a cat, even if there are no obvious injuries, they must receive life-saving antibiotic treatment within a few hours otherwise they are very likely to develop blood poisoning.
A very happy ending to one of our stories - the RTA male otter that we have been treating for a week made a full recovery and last Saturday we took him back for release at a fantastic site (pictured) not too far from where he was hit by a car. It was amazing to watch him go and although he was a bit reluctant to leave the carrying box initially, he soon realised that he was home and started exploring one of several pools that he was released into. A very happy ending.
A couple of exotics have been brought in lately by the RSPCA. Firstly, an Asian Water Dragon, a stray found in someones garden and most recently, and probably the most unusual animal we have ever taken in, an American striped skunk!! Despite their reputation she is really cute, only a youngster and she has settled in well. She does smell a bit, but so far she hasn't used her main defence, spraying, and we are hoping she doesn't decide to start!!.
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