Pawz for Thought, Sunderland (2025)

01/07/2025

Please, please, Please
Dont message us about injured animals. Pick up the phone and ring. We had well over 180 calls today we haven’t got the time to look for messages in the many ways they come. We were devastated to find at least 6 jobs that we missed because we didn’t know they were there

30/06/2025

Is there anything cuter than a furry bat bum? 🍑 🥰

Happy Monday! Start the week being kind and doing your bit. Bats and many other animals are nursing their young so are in extra need of hydration especially in this heatwave. Dehydrated bats end up grounded and unable to take off again.
Leave out plenty water in shallow bowls for our wildlife, our bats, insects, hedgehogs and everything else need it. Make a difference this week moving forward ❤️❤️❤️ 💧

29/06/2025

Jennifer is a lovely girl. She enjoys a stroke and a bounce around the garden. She is a fairly big girl who would love a spacious home, living with a rabbit husbun! If you have a lone male, Jennifer maybe the perfect match for him. Single rabbits go out on trial and are only adopted when you have a happily bonded couple.

28/06/2025

We are well and truly into bat season! In the last few years we have noticed more and more bats coming into care. Aside from cat injuries bringing in over 90% of them, bad weather, extreme heat or storms for example also brings them in.
During pup season we get many calls for pups that have got lost or fallen from their roosts, the mother hasn’t come back so they’re starving or the roost has been destroyed due to careless or illegal developments. To get some more bat carers on board we held a training session under a licensed bat carer with the help of some bats already in care due to cat injuries. Our new carers were shown how to handle, feed and look after the bats in care making us a lot more prepared for bat season.
Bats only typically have one pup per year and as well as the bats being protected their roosts are also. They’re extremely precious, an amazing part of ecosystems, without them we wouldn’t be here. They’re highly protected in uk and Europe and in massive decline! Please do your bit, always check when doing building work you aren’t destroying a roost and please keep your cats indoors as much as possible especially between dusk and dawn to allow bats a chance. So far we have had to have euthanised 12 bats from cat injuries; it’s pretty devastating and the bats are in so much pain. Every one is extremely precious and our aim is to get them back out into the wild as quickly as possible 🦇🦇🦇❤️

27/06/2025

One last post from our crazy Thursday.
A lady rang to say she had a family of hedgehogs living in an old shed in her garden. It happens the lady had just bought the property and had started renovating the house, and had organised gardeners to start work outside and to demolish the shed. After a long conversation we tried to convince her to leave the shed so as not to disturb the family. But it was all organised for it to come down the following day. Kay and Debbie went to the property to retrieve the hedgehog family and bring it back to Pawz . But on arrival the lady told them she had a change of heart and had stopped the work on the garden and it wouldn't start again until the hedgehogs had moved on by their own accord. She admitted she didn't realise they were on the red list and struggling. This was a good outcome and we can't thank her enough for giving this family the chance they deserve!

27/06/2025

Well done to all the students at St Roberts in Washington who have been fundraising this year for Pawz for Thought and other charities. We are delighted with the £704.70 that they raised for us and this will help with our Project CatSnip neutering animals in the area to stop un wanted litters 🐾😻

27/06/2025

Crazy Thursday conclusion. Grateful thanks to John and Terry from Blyth Wildlife Rescue and the fabulous Elliot from northumbrian_water our dedicated hog volunteers Kay and Debbie who also went to retrieve the fox, it was a long night and this was in addition to the flood of normal calls and visitors. Our SOS team of volunteers who are ran off their feet at the moment and when I got back at 1/2 past midnight all the animals were fed cleaned and settled for the night by Laura and Hannah, blissful early finish in before 2am!

27/06/2025

Crazy Thursday continued…
Elliot from Northumbrian Water Washington arrived and swiftly took decisive action to start and dig out the chamber that the hedgehog was trapped in. Elliot and John from Blyth Wildlife Rescue were working together quickly and with a lot of digging carefully broke the chamber away. Eventually and with a surge of relief even though it was now well after midnight the hedghog which was given the name Victor ( due to being in Victoria street and also being victorious in getting released ) was released and rescued. Blyth took the hog and were going to get him checked for Crush injuries one of the main problem last night was he was wet and cold. Thankyou to all involved

27/06/2025

Crazy Thursday evening continued as we were coming back with the fox we had a call abut a hedgehog wedged in a water service chamber. Kay and Debbie went to extract it armed with the usual tools however, the hog was wedged so tight under the pipes they tried for a time and said they were struggling. In the meantime the fox was in the van waiting to go to the vets at Morpeth. Pawz then suffered the usual influx of walking wounded and I was struggling to leave with the fox. Then Blyth Wildlife who we had rang about the fox earlier rang and said they would head over to pick the fox up from us. I asked blyth if they had any ideas about the hogs plight and they said they would grab some kit and head in down and we would meet at the address where the hedghog was and if the fox needed the vet they would take him. Unfortunately when we looked at the fox, he had passed and when John and Terry looked at him he was severely jaundiced. Back to the hog down the drain. Blyth worked away on the drain but once again could not get the hog released so they called the waterboard who said they would be out pronto as by now we were being told the hog had been down there two days and someone had poured some water down in case it was thirsty 🫤 see next post!

27/06/2025

Crazy Thursday evening 😳 among the chaos of calls last night we received one about a herring gull that had got himself into a spot of bother by getting his leg well and truly stuck in the gutter of a house in Seaburn. Our volunteers attempted to get to him and could not manage, we called our brilliant twfrs and they were out fast to get the little chap. At first the prognosis looked grim however, as you can see his leg is sore and scrapped. It will heal up fine good as new 😊 eternally grateful to our rescue services who always help the animals when asked.

27/06/2025

The start of a crazy Thursday evening. It started with these two boys and their two friends finding this very poorly fox. They rang us immediately and explained where they were. Fortunately they were very close to the shelter and we were able to get there in very guick time.
The fox was in a collapsed state and didn’t put up any kind of resistance when approached and transferred. Into the carrier. We then put it in the van and Robson & Prescott Vets kindly agreed to treat it. A big Well Done to these boys who were very caring and had the sense to ring and wait with the fox till we got there.

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