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🙄.
Another victim of fishing hooks this guy was caught at Nissan late afternoon and brought to us. Drove him over to https://www.facebook.com/westwayveterinarygroup on the west road they removed the large hook through his face and and he is faced with surgery tonight to remove the hook down his crop. Cross all your fingers he makes it thru . UPDATE *** he didnt make it the xray showed the hook too close to his heart and between two air sacs the vets thought it unviable to try. Fishing tackle grrrhh
It’s been like swan central lately at pawz as the parents are chasing their cygnets off their ponds. (We used to do this with our children not so much these days though) 🤔
This cygnet is Meadow and she came in very very light at 4.5 kilos and has settled down to do some serious eating!
Help needed again we have dozens of kittens in atm and we could do with some whiskas kitten pouches of wet food in jelly NOT gravy as gravy tend to give them diarrhoea. Thank you
We recieved ten hedghogs in between 5 oclock and 8 last night alone we are desparate for newspapers
Neuter your pets, we are bursting at the seams with unwanted kittens and your cats are suffering the consequence, it is neglect and abuse. This shouldn’t be happening in this country, it’s a mess, our animals are suffering. There is NO EXCUSE. Don’t let out if you don’t neuter, if you do, shame on you! Video courtesy by the wonderful @sheilagraberanimation please share 🙏🏼🐈 🐱 🐈⬛
Another litter just born she would have been struggling if she had not been here. The litter was an entanglement of attached cords to placentas and she had not managed to get them freed. Big clean up going on now she is sorted they all look well. Will update once she has them cleaned up. Need kitty cams on these pens
Neuter your pets, we are bursting at the seams with unwanted kittens and your cats are suffering the consequence, it is neglect and abuse. There is NO EXCUSE. Video courtesy by the wonderful @sheilagraberanimation please share 🐈 🐱 🐈⬛
Neuter your pets, we are bursting at the seams with unwanted kittens and your cats are suffering the consequence, it is neglect and abuse. This shouldn’t be happening in this country, it’s a mess, our animals are suffering. There is NO EXCUSE. Don’t let out if you don’t neuter, if you do, shame on you! Video courtesy by the wonderful @sheilagraberanimation please share 🙏🏼🐈 🐱 🐈⬛
While I was at West Hall Kennels this morning there was some idiot shooting in the field around Cleadon and the kennels said its non stop.
This is a kennel that takes in dogs from death,stray dogs, abandoned dogs and dogs that will be anxious to start off with. Anyone that has dogs that react to fireworks will know what I’m saying! The dog we collected was startled and jumpy when she heard the shots. Why is no one stopping this man?? Why is the farmer letting him shoot on these fields?? How many people reading this post are just as disturbed and upset about it?? I have taken in the ones animals that have been injured not killed for years and I’m sick of it. Today the penny dropped, that this is torture to those dogs and most likely plenty of dogs that live around Whitburn and Cleadon. So, firstly let’s all politely ask the owner or owners of these fields to stop letting people shoot over them!
We were at Cleadon Kennels today as we had gone to collect this rather round girl who had been placed in kennels by social services due to circumstances. While we were there we found out that they are in great need of dog bedding!
They will take non feather duvets, blankets, dog beds and tinned food.
We are going to sort through our store of duvets and tinned dog food as the bird season has quietened down now. If anyone wants to donate take direct to West Hall Kennels or if easier drop at pawz and we will get it dropped off to them.
A little happy update, on the 22nd April we posted about a cat that had been found in his home by the police as he is owner had died.
He is now called Rodney and he found his home quite quickly. At first he was the perfect cat then he went through a phase of not quite good behaviour however, patience and time solves most things and he is now fast tracking to be a well behaved guy. There is such a lot of massive changes when animals change homes it does often take time and you need to give them that time. Rodney has been lucky he came from a tiny basement flat and we believe he was kept indoors as well. He now has a spacious home and safe garden. He has his dog, a young cat and an older cat and his human family, he is much loved and has great character and will continue to develop more gentlemanly manners as time goes by. Although if you watch he did rub his cheek against Abby as he shoved her out the way🥴
