This fine young lady is Gertrude, she fat, fit and healthy…….so why is she with us… Well sadly for her she is totally blind and unable to cope in the wild. Luckily for her she was found wandering across roads by a kind family who scooped her up and brought her to us. She obviously [...]
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It’s a tough life for Hoggies
Posted in Uncategorized on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cubs Released
Posted in Uncategorized on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This year has been another successful year for releasing orphaned fox cubs…..
We owe a huge debt of thanks to Dawn and Barry who do so much to ensure every cub has a fantastic start to their lives in the wild..
HELP !!! I’ve a SNAKE in my garden
Posted in Uncategorized on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This June saw a record number of callouts for snakes. Despite the callers worries that these snakes were adders or all sorts of exotics, they all turned out to be harmless grass snakes. Most found themselves caught in pond netting or the netting used to protect fruit and veg from birds.
Finding a three foot snake in [...]
Release Pens
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend has seen all this years orphaned fox cubs move on to release pens…. They are now starting the last part of their release programme………Here they can complete their rehabilitation, already they are now semi wild and in just a few weeks they will be fully wild and ready to take on the world as healthy [...]
Orphaned Fox Cubs
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every year we take in orphaned fox cubs…The vast majority are orphaned as a direct result of Man’s actions, we seem unable to co-exist with any creatures, but foxes find ‘us’ a tough prospect in every respect………. We hunt their parents, we set snares and traps for them, we poison them, we shoot them, we dig [...]
ORPHANED OTTER CUB
Posted in Uncategorized on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This stunningly beautiful creature is ‘Cerridwen’ Very sadly she was orphaned at only five weeks old.
Otters have young at any time of the year, but this very cold snap must have made parenting especially tough. Quite what happened to mum is a mystery, but this beautiful young lady was truly fortunate to have been found [...]
Fundraiser
Posted in Uncategorized on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
GREAT NEWS The Wonderful Schelmish (probably the World’s very best Medieval Rock Band) are to play at a fundraising evening for us on Feb 28th 2009 at 8pm
The Hamworthy Club, Magna Road, Poole.
Tickets are very limited…. if you’d love a great night out and raise money for DWR please snap your tickets up asap……..
Tickets are [...]
ANNOUNCEMENT
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The worst of all nightmares happened last week..Our computer CRASHED……
Not the end of the world exactly, but it has caused a major crisis in the fact that our supporters records are now out of date… SO TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS… if you have moved since Jan 07, or are a new supporter since then… PLEASE [...]
Freedom at last
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Every year we take in orphaned fox cubs and at ten to twelve weeks old they are transfered to fox release pens. Now is the time they are given the chance to start their lives back in the wild. We owe a HUGE debt of thanks to Dawn and Barry who year after year take [...]
More bats than your average Belfrey
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Helen and Andy, two of our most fantastic volunteer rescuers, have also taken on the role of foster parents to a array of bats that without exception, had been caught by cats. Helen and Andy are wonderul ambassadors for DWR and without their unstinting help, DWR would be very much the poorer.
As a footnote, they [...]
