This video is very apt today for Halloween! 🦇 Although bats shouldn’t be associated with Halloween as they’re our friends not enemies it’s lovely to show our very recent bat release today!
We had a high number of bats come into our care this year mostly due to the diminishing insect populations, bad weather and loss of habitat.
Young bats especially get lost when learning to fly and even the most experienced bats are sadly attacked by cats that know where a roost is or find them dehydrated on the floor grounded. 90% of cat attacks in bats are fatal, but there are a small number that actually pull through and make it like these ones!
Bats don’t do well in care overwinter as they need specific conditions and roosts to hibernate. Although they had a few little holes in their wings still from cat claws they are flying no problem and they will continue to heal over the winter for when they wake up in march/april.
1) BatSparrow - a cat attack victim named due to his broken leg and foot as well as numerous painful wing tears and ligament damage he was in care for a number of months and his holes almost fully repaired and his foot although not perfect he was no longer expressing pain, eating well and flying like superman.
2) Batthew - another cat attack victim, still holes in his wings but after getting over his bruising, infection and putting on plenty weight he is off flying with his new best friend BatSparrow
3 Lou - (Loo) named after an attack by a toilet brush in an old people’s home! He was a young male probably this years pup who found himself in the bathroom in an old people’s home who didn’t take kindly to him being there! Poor Lou was bruised and battered and he had a few weeks of rest and healing and gained the necessary couple of grams of weight needed for hibernation it was amazing to see them released together.
We couldn’t do it without our volunteers picking up our wildlife, our rehabbers and you who support us with donations that
We love deliveries🤗 this fabulous looking waggon from Tyne Tees Ceramics Ltd has just delivered the ceramic tiles for the cat pens. They contacted us when they saw the post about our new cat pens being built and asked us to go and choose the tiles we wanted completely free of charge and gifted by them to Pawz. This charity runs on love
and goodwill. Amazing company we are so very grateful.
No let up in the animals that are coming in and we having to turn down so many people needing help because we simply have no where to put them cats, rabbits and other domestics. These two boys came in yesterday as unhandable lab rats. Steve our rat whisperer had them relaxed and loving the attention in no time. The wildlife is still pouring in today 12 hedgehogs, 1 kestrel , 3 herring gulls and loads of wood-pigeons and ferals made it through the doors. There were more that went direct to a vet because of the extent of their injuries, and 1 old cat that looks like it may have a facial tumour and no chip (did anyone say its against the law not to chip your cat now) we think people out there are not taking much notice of the law🙄.