wildlifes

[wildlifes]

I realise I haven't posted anything in an age, so here are a random selection of recent patients

[wildlifes]

Congratulations!! It's such an amazing thing to do! I'm sure you'll rock it, and help many bats 🦇

GUESS WHO JUST GOT ACCEPTED TO START TRAINING TO BE A BAT CARER/RESCUER??!

THAT'S RIGHT IT'S ME BITCHES!!1!

🌙🦇☁️

[wildlifes]

Why don’t some people realize that the best way to care for some creatures is to humanely euthanize??

Case in point:

This just crossed my facebook feed. This poor kestrel was electrocuted and is under the care of a center in Hungary (I believe). Both its feet and one wing had to be amputated. How is this a life? The poor creature can’t perch, can’t hold its own food. It can’t be a bird.

Amputations alone aren’t bad, but trying to keep an animal alive when it can’t preform basic behaviors is cruel. Why can’t people understand this?

[wildlifes]

This poor bat was stuck to a glue trap. The people who found him managed to peel him off using the oyster card - but he just stuck to that instead, as he was covered in glue. Sadly this guy didn't make it - the stress of being stuck, and all the handling before and after being bought in was just too much for him.

Please don't use glue traps - they are indiscriminate in what they catch, and cause immense stress and pain for the unlucky trapped animals.

#wildlife hospital #bat #wildlife rehab #glue trap

[wildlifes]

Hangry baby! Some seals are more vocal than others, and Georgie here LOVES to use her voice!

#seal #grey seal #wildlife rehab #wildlife hospital #wildlife rehabilitation

[wildlifes]

i thought for a second that the first pidgeon was actually a sculpture someone was working on in ur pidgeon post hjkdfkjh

Ahahaha!! I can see exactly what you mean 😂

[wildlifes]

Ms Coulter and Pantalaimon back in the wild 💖

#wildlife release #wildlife hospital #wildlife rehab #seal #grey seal

[wildlifes]

Pigeons are my favourite patients, not going to lie. Here are two pigeons from yesterday - a wounded adult just admitted, and a wee baby who's just been seed fed. We get hundreds of pigeons every year, I love them all.

#pigeon #birblr #vetblr #wildlife hospital #wildlife rehab #blood warning #wound warning #hes ok dont worry

[wildlifes]

Serafina - a week's difference!

Grey seals are born with a thick white pupcoat to keep them warm and dry. It doesn't take long for them to shed most of it. You're always pulling handfuls of what looks like golden retriever fur out the drain!

Serafina is an orphan pup, who came in with open wounds to her flippers and a bad eye. She is making a good recovery, and currently learning to eat by herself. She will be released when she is big enough!

#seal #grey seal #puppy #wildlife hospital #wildlife rehab #last post i promise #sorry for seal spam #i forget to update this blog im tryna do better i swear

[wildlifes]

One of the chonky boys, Pantalaimon, from the big pool spending a day in an intermediate pool - he misses the space and depth!

Large seals are only moved here when the big pool needs a deep clean for a day, or - in his case - while he waits to be released the next day!

#seal #wildlife hospital #wildlife rehab #wildlife rehabilitation #seal play

[wildlifes]

Serafina enjoying a salt water flood of her cubicle!

When seals are injured/ill, on medication or not eating for themselves, they are inside in a cubicle. Once they are strong enough they are moved outside to an intermediate pool where they can build muscle, and then onto a big, deep pool with other seals, before being released

#seal #grey seal #seal pup #wildlife hospital #wildlife rehab

[wildlifes]

Salt and Peppery goodness

Grey seals have a huge variation of colours and patterns - I love how two the same age can look so different. These two are now grown and were released!

#seal #wildlife rehab #grey seal #wildlofe hospital

[wildlifes]

This is real

Sometimes the newer seals need encouragement getting into their tubs to eat, and we have to direct them in with a towel, which they Do Not like.

#all it needs is the terror of restraining and trying to force feed a seal that doesnt know how to eat yet #fun being so close to a mouth full of teeth while sitting on what is essentially a jiggly rodeo bull trying to buck you off

[wildlifes]

A sleepy banana

#seal #harbour seal #common seal #wildlife rehab #wildlife hospital #wildlife rehabilitation

[wildlifes]

Long eared Bat that was in care after being cat caught, was released!

#wildlife rehab #wildlife rehabilitation #bat #long eared bat #wildlife hospital #bats

[wildlifes]

Badger cub found in a ditch of water with bite wounds to her back. After she finished her course of antibiotic injections, she was moved to another rehabilitation centre that specialises in orphan badger cubs, with lots of potential release sites.

#wildlife rehabilitation #wildlife rehab #badger #badger cub

[wildlifes]

Very cute baby robin. Cat caught and bought into us. The second photo is of two pellets he has produced - the black one on the right from his last meal with his parents - insect shells mostly. The one on the left is from his meals with us - a special mix for growing young passerines. I thought it was very cool to see the diet difference in pellet form!

#wildlife rehab #robin #baby bird #vetblr #sciblr