Animals Only Ltd

01/12/2025

🌲🎅🏻Happy December!!!!!
Last few Advent Calendars!!!

24/11/2025

Busy day today, Live food rep, cat food rep and weighing chicken gravy bones 🍖

08/11/2025

07/11/2025

📢 IMPORTANT AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE 📢

Not the news we wanted to come into today, sadly, Avian Influenza has been confirmed in wild birds in our area 😔

With immediate effect, if you are bringing ANY bird casualty to the hospital please DO NOT enter the building, ring the bell on the Reception door and someone will be out to help you.

We are now only accepting Waterbirds and Birds of Prey within a 10 mile radius of the hospital. If you have found a Waterbird or Bird of Prey that needs help outside of this area, please call us on 01386 882288 so we can give the best advice for each case.

If you are concerned about any bird, please call us so we can discuss symptoms before you arrive.

We will be reviewing our protocol regularly, to ensure we are keeping the patients in our care as safe as possible.

If you have found dead bird/s, please use the DEFRA online reporting form -
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-dead-wild-birds

03/11/2025

We sell specialist swan and duck food. We also have bags of smashed corn, mixed corn and chick crumb to suit geese and chickens too!!

15/10/2025

Hedgehog advice. Nearly time for hibernation! 💤

If the hedgehog is a regular visitor to your garden and is only seen at night / appears active, then it can be left alone in the wild.

Please remember to continue to put fresh food and water out all over winter.

As we enter much colder temperatures, hedgehogs may start to go into hibernation but, as our winters are so mild now, they may not stay in hibernation, so it's really important they (and other wildlife) have access to fresh food and water.

A Hedgehog needs help at this time of year if:
➡ The hedgehog has an obvious injury.
➡ The hedgehog is staggering, wobbly, or walking in circles.
➡ The hedgehog is out in the day.
➡ The hedgehog is lying on it's side.

If you find a hedgehog that needs help, you can:
🖤 Use gardening gloves or a towel to gently handle the hedgehog
🖤 Place the hedgehog in a high-sided box with a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel
🖤 Bring it to us here at the Vale Wildlife Hospital or your nearest rescue.