Rescue, Rehab, Release
We had these fellas for a short while yesterday, collected from Upton vets and held for Wildlife in Need.
Tracy wasted no time in holding the fluffy ducklings. Sadly mum had been killed. We don’t know if the Drake is dad or not, but he came with the ducklings. He appears to have a problem with his left eye.
We had a call about a hedgehog in trouble on Sundayday, so it was off to Bearwood to collect an adult female hedgehog with a very bad cough.
This is almost certainly a secondary respiratory infection due to a heavy lung worm burden.
She will have nebuliser treatment for the respiratory infection, and once confirmed from checking a poo sample, will be treated for lungworm.
Please folks, if you use rat/mouse traps, think about how you site them, and if possible have some fishing line
One of the things we do at HHR is take part in scientific studies to further the knowledge about, and
