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The welfare of animals arriving at the wildlife hospital and cattery is always our priority; to ensure that we release or rehome animals that can be given a second chance and making tough decisions on those that can not be released or rehomed. However, like most charities and companies we cannot just rest on our laurels, we have to learn and evolve to a changing world.


The wildlife hospital has over 160 years of staff experience on site and we have 17 wildlife protocols for a large number of the more common species that guide us through the rehabilitation process. These protocols have been developed over the past 25 years by staff from four RSPCA wildlife centres but even with these protocols we are still learning new tricks. As well as learning from new approaches in-house there are hundreds of other independent wildlife rehabilitators that all have experiences and ideas that we can learn from too. So networking with other rehabilitators and not pretending we know everything is really important moving forward, as it will help us to further develop our protocols and help save more lives. Even with protocols and over 160 years worth of staff experience on site we regularly have cases


that are not covered by our protocols or been seen previously by staff. Decisions on such cases can be discussed and agreed internally or we may reach out externally to others for advice. That 's what makes working with animals so amazing; we are always learning, networking and sometimes having to think outside the box.


The Cattery also has many years of staff experience and working protocols that have been developed by cat professionals but there are always new scenarios that force us to rethink things and to possibly make a new plan. Learning from new scenarios can lead to further research which can result in changes to our protocols which is how ultimately we evolve.


Whether you work with wild, domestic or exotic animals it 's often about using your head, rather than your heart and doing what is best for the animal, even if that means putting an animal to sleep. This is not always easy for staff, even those that have been at Stapeley for decades, as we all have big hearts wanting to save the world or at least every animal that comes through the door but it 's about accepting that saving every animals isn't always possible!!


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