07/06/2026
Yesterday we had an extremely busy day with almost 100 phone calls and messages predominantly for wildlife, many cat attacked fledgling birds. Often as we are on a call to one person, the other phone rings, not easy when most of the time we have one volunteer maning the phone, whilst feeding baby wildllife!
The first call out yesterday to our volunteers was to a stunning beautiful female Roe deer, a member of the public found her lying injured. She was near railway lines, thankfully Network Rail were very prompt at giving us access with our ambulance straight to the scene. We found her with an infected open fractured hind leg, a few minutes later we had her in our ambulance and at the nearest vets and her suffering was ended, she is now at peace. Thank you Vets for Pets Bulwell for your prompt response.
Before we could return we responded do our 16th fox cub of the season, he was found dragging his legs. He was taken straight to our specialist exotics vets Vets for Pets Eastwood, where he was examining and found to have multiple internal fractures including his pelvis, no doubt an RTA, he could not be saved.
Later in the day we had several birds and hedgehogs admitted. All this whilst we are hand rearing 7 hoglets, 4 owlets, 3 Jackdaws and multiple garden birds, pigeons, ducklings and goslings.
If we can catch wildlife, they are often catchable for good reason, they are very ill, weak or disabled through injury and as such, sometimes the hardest, yet kindest decision we have to make is to end life, to end suffering. Often we make this assessment in conjunction with our vets, but when the decision is made to end an animals life, we may not have saved their life, we have most certainly saved them from a prolonged and slow suffering death. Its difficult to imagine what it must be like to lie beside a railway line or busy road with your body broke, unable to get up, unable to free yourself from pain
