Pawz for Thought

Grab waggon back again to take the last of the spoil away at the front of pawz to ease the car park. Hopefully we will have a fairly quiet day so we can tidy the front up we have been upside down for some weeks now. 😊

A group of one adult female and 6 baby kestrels raised although they all came in from different areas they have shared the same perches and have grown together with us. They were Released today and flew off into the trees together.

Another one away👏 #julielehman has been coming in daily to see to the many birds of prey we have had thru the doors lately. She has had a huge success rate and has been getting them back our as quickly as possible. Thanks to Jeanette martin for taking the bird back to where it was picked up when the bird came in

The grab https://www.facebook.com/share/QMnYF6Q5wuLNFaxC/?mibextid=LQQJ4d taking away the spoil from the 3 phase trench and widening the car park area love machines that make a difference in minutes.

Ben aka Zen from Hebburn keeping an eye on his flock while they have breakfast this morning 😍

We are looking for some expert chin ticklers.. We have 3 male guinea pigs who will be ready to leave us soon having now been neutered. They are each looking for a female or a group of females to be rehomed to. If you have a suitable home please contact us as these delightful chaps would each love a home of their own! [email protected]

Bit of a strange ask this time 🥴we are upside down at pawz with all the work and changing rooms and we have so very little storage space we have a lot of bags of fundraising items mainly big sacks of teddies ready to fundraise with when we need them. Does anyone have a spare room, dry clean garage ir indeed perhaps a factory unit or empty property that we could use for a few months we would not wanting to be in and out a lot just now and again we would be quiet and respectful.

Feeding

Little goldfinches have quite the appetite. Never ending feeding time but very cute 🥰

Day of the woody babies! High winds equal lots of birds arriving. If you see one if these on the ground pick them up their parents cannot care for them when they are blown from their nests. Just bring them in we can raise them. Ps anyone that could collect for us get in touch we need lots mire volunteers in all tge different areas to bring in the ones that have been picked up by people who don’t have transport

This kestral was found inside a log burning stove last night. He isn’t injured just a tad sooty and he enjoyed his supper 😍

Welcome to the world little one. Amongst the pidgeon rescued a fee days ago we also got an egg which had a live bird in it. Has just hatched unfortunately i missed it to video

One of the thirteen hedgehogs that came in today this one was clean just incredibly small and out during the day if you find them please get them into a box or container soft fleecy dry blanket and offer dish of water only do not feed them if they are dehydrated you will exasperate their problems they need to be warmed rehydrated and fed in that order then we look to find out the reasons why they were found. A hedghog will eat literally minutes before they die eating isn’t a sign that everything is okay anyone that doubts what we are saying is welcome to come and volunteer for a day then they will realise that we know what we are talking about.

Glue trap

This little guy was very lucky today thanks to a kind gentleman who brought him to us. Someone had set glue traps to catch pests and the first victim was a little mouse. The mouse must have had an horrific slow death, struggling to free himself, panicked and starving. The gull then probably thinking this was food became stuck by a wing to the trap. We don’t know how long he had had this on him but was seen pecking frantically to remove the trap with the corpse from himself and unable to fly. Thank goodness we got him in time and using vegetable oil we managed to remove the glue. Please don’t use these barbaric traps ! Thankyou also to the hero who rescued a furious gull ! X

***Happy 21st July*** According to our stats every year we peak on admissions through the door on this day every year. Then slowly slowly the intakes reduce, we could not have tried any harder! This year has been so busy, the volunteers are amazing and this wouldn’t happen without them and everyone who gives in every way all makes what Pawz does possible. Every day we get boxes through the door with something in them as you walk past the office you hear the immortal words “whats in the box”. Sometimes they are the mortally wounded but our heart fly when we open the box and something doable is in it like this gull chick! Way to small to survive on the ground however we can grow this one and in a few months he could get sunning himself in spain or some other country😊

This is Toulouse ! He is one lucky kitten and used up one of his 9 lives already at just one day old. We had a call from a firm who had found him in a delivery van no idea what area he came from, new born, umbilical still there, we reckon he didn’t even get a first feed fortunately we keep colostrum in for new borns without it they are on a hiding to nothing. Sticky start but now looking pretty good yet another victim of irresponsible people if you want a pet Spay, castrate and chip. Poor mother, poor kitten, poor us! its absolutely endless, like digging a hole in soft dry sand, we’re never going to win this war unless legislation is brought in to make people think hard before committing to an animal.

Who doesn’t love a milky mealworm snog?!

Who doesn’t love a milky mealworm gut snog? 🥴🥰Who remembers the teeny bat pups? Here they are almost weaned but they still love their milk feeds….. a bit too much! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 They’ve moved from puppy milk to mealworms that have been gutloaded with the milk powder and vitamins and minerals to make sure they get all the support they need during the rest of their growth. “Baldy” the one who looks a bit bald is getting her fur back now after developing hair loss which is very common with pups in care on formula 🥰 Their next step is once they’re self feeding, joining other pups in a flight school where they will learn to feed on the wing and go off into the big wide world ✈️ 👩🏻‍✈️ ❤️ *we don’t own the rights to this music

We need help 😻🙏 can you volunteer a day each week to work with animals? We urgently need willing volunteers to come along to help out cleaning and feeding at the rescue centre. Full training will be provided. We currently have over 200 hedgehogs 450 birds as we are in peak for wildlife intakes. Please contact Lorraine on 07870552402

Bet ya wish you were on a hedghog course today😻