Babies, babies everywhere!!

Things are really starting to get busier now and combined with the fact that we are now 2 staff down, I think that the coming busy season will put us all to the test.

We now have eleven fox cubs and amongst the other youngsters we have in at the moment are baby squirrels, two muntjac deer fawns, baby blackbirds and robins and several baby pigeons, all needing regular hand feeds. This is besides the adult casualties that we are dealing with every day.

Natalie & Helen's Arctic Trek

Natalie and Helen left for their 250km Arctic husky trek last Saturday and we had a text from them on Sunday just before they lost signal going up into the mountains.
We had another text this morning (they got a signal on the phone very briefly). They said it's been very hard, trekking about 50km every day, and is so cold at night that their sleeping bags and their hair freezes!
It is their last night under canvas tonight as tomorrow night they are in a hotel having their first shower and first proper meal for a week.
We are very proud of what they have done to help Vale - maybe it will inspire other people to undertake a sponsored event for us.

Here we go....spring again!

Well, fox cub number 6 came in today, a tiny little thing with eyes still shut. It was found under a shed, and from the sound of it, it should have been left exactly where it was. Unfortunately as the cub was passed to us third hand we have no finder details, otherwise we could have taken it back.

We already have three cubs of about the same age which came in when they were only about 2 days old. These are being bottle fed every three hours and are making great progress despite a bit of chestiness when they first came in.

We also have two older fox cubs, a badger cub (pictured) and our first fledgling blackbird was brought in today too. It won't be long now before our rooms are bursting at the seams with young mouths shouting for food!!