Spring and Summer months are always extremely busy for the wildlife team. They are not only dealing with daily admissions and caring for 100's of animals alreday in our care they are also releasing animals back to the wild. It really seems that every minute is precious! Staf f release what they can but we st ill rely heavily on volunteers and members of the public (MOP) to help return our rehabilitated animals. We always look to return non-orphaned wildlife back to where they came f rom and so will always ask members of public to help return them if we can. Our volunteer drivers also help to return wildlife further af ield and will of ten help transfer animals to vets or other RSPCA Centres where our Inspectorate and MOPs can pick up more easily. Reducing t ime in care for those ready for release is crit ical for a busy hospital such as ours.
Over recent years we have also developed links with MOPs, a Scout group and even a Prison to establish mobile aviaries in the
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Photo by Freddy Jones
f ield and arranged for unused barns to be converted to Tawny owl aviaries (page 4). Such programmes means we have fewer aviaries being used by birds in their f inal stages of rehabilitat ion which helps to prevent a back log of birds needing aviary space within the hospital.
We also have hedgehog foster carers that can take hedgehogs that merely require feeding and cleaning. An outside rabbit hutch makes for the perfect short term home before a hedgehog is of suitable weight to be released. This is a programme we are looking to further develop over the coming 12 months to reduce numbers in our
care...so watch this space
October 2019 marks our 25th year of operat ions and to mark this special occasion we are planning a Masquerade Ball (page 10). If you love something a lit t le dif ferent and would like to suppor t us on this special RSPCA evening, please contact us: sanctuary@
rspca.org.uk
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