Wild Life

Poor Fox sadly P.T.S.

Swan Rescue

Happy Fox Rescue

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough.

We have a higher mission—to be of service to them wherever they require it.

Francis of Assisi

Wild life Rescue

We try to provide care to orphaned, sick and injured wild animals

and release them back into their natural habitat.

Swan being released

This beautiful Swan was found very sick and gave 10 days here in a quiet kennel with us until she was ready to be released back to the lake in Templemore when her Antibiotics were finished.

I got a call about this poor Fox that was injured, so we headed off to catch him and sadly he had to be PTS because he had a broken foot, a badly injured spine

and also a broken tail that would have had to be amputated.

At least we ended his suffering!

Broken Tail

Injured Spine

Broken Foot

I received a call not long ago about a fox caught in a snare. The people were very upset as the fox was alive and going into shock from the fear. We told the people we would come out and do our best to release the fox. We got some supplies ready and headed out to where the fox was spotted. We finally managed to find the fox and by the time we had arrived the fox had been I the snare at least 8 hours. He was exhausted and in shock from struggling to free himself. The snare was the type used to catch Badgers and are illegal to use here in Ireland.

We got the fox sedated and cut him free from the wire snare. You can see the snare in the picture to the left. After checking the fox for injuries we wrapped him in a blanket and left him in a safe place until he would wake up. It was very rewarding to have helped free this fox, he was a gorgeous young male. We would encourage anyone who is out walking and sees a snare to pull it up so that it doesn’t catch a fox, dog, cat or other animal.

This Cygnet crashed landed into wires and broke her wing and tore herself in a few places and will remain with us until she is ready to be released back with her family in a couple of weeks.

This Swan was brought to us in April 2008 by our local Wildlife Warden, he was a bit shook after being attacked by his family for what reason we do not know so he stayed with us for a week and then he went down to Cork to Chelsea who takes on a lot of wildlife and cares for them and releases them into safe places.

A member of the public came across this little fella in her garden all tangled up in netting so she rang and Hannah went out at 10pm at night, I removed as much of the netting as I could that night without stressing him too much and put him into a cage with food and water and we got the rest of the netting off him the follow morning and he was released back into the wild.

I helped another hedgehog at the same place last year, he had fallen down a cattle grid and we successful in getting him out and back to safety.

This lovely Kestrel came into us after he was caught in the storm in Oct 2008 and he only had to stay with us for one night and when he was fully recovered the following day we released him so lets hope he stays out of trouble now and keeps to the sky’s.

They are a very beautiful creature but must be handled with care and always with gloves on as their beaks are very sharp and can do great damage to your fingers or hand.

A Kestrel for a change

Injured Cygnet

Another Swan

A Hedgehog this time

The horrible Snare!

Fox recovering from the sedation.

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Hedgehog Rescue

This little Hedgehog wandered into a person’s yard on 03/06/2009. She had a bad respiratory infection and had an eye infection and sadly lost one of her eyes., so she is now on eye drops and antibiotics and is doing great.

She has since been released back to the wild.

Bandit. Two fox cubs together Amber..

Fox Cub Rescue

Hedgehog Rescue

BANDIT came into us in May when he was about 10 weeks old, he was found in a rabbit hutch by another rescue group when they were doing a cruelty check and nobody knows what happened to his siblings or mother.

AMBER came into us in June when she was nearly 4 months old, she was found on the side of the road with her dead mother and her eyes were not even open and a lovely kind man who has greyhounds found her and done a great job hand rearing her and then she came to the rescue.

They will both be released together in August/September as that is when the Vixen says goodbye to her cubs.

Amber came into us quite tame due to being hand reared but has come on great in the time here with Bandit and is quite wild now and we will have no problem releasing them both.

3 babies together Close up of one

I got a call from a very concerned farmer in Co Limerick about these 3 babies last Sunday evening 28/06/2009, he had been cleaning out his barn and disturbed the nest the evening before and he was great to keep an eye on them to see if the mom returned which sadly she did not.

A volunteer took on the job of hand feeding these tiny babies who were 1—2 weeks old every couple of hours, and they are on kitten milk and are have since been released to a safe garden.

Updated 16th August 2009

Our Fox Cubs were released this week, off they went and never looked back, so fingers crossed that they will be all right and keep off the roads.

Updated 4th September

This pic was taken just before the baby hedgehogs were released, they have grown quite big but proved too prickly to handle for the photo as they have been allowed to go wild in their pen in readiness for their release.

Just look at the size of them now compared to when they came in.

We have lovely homes got for them where food will be put out for them in feed stations.

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission--to be of service to them wherever they require it."

*Francis of Assisi *

Sadly we were too late to save this poor Heron

The poor Heron on the vets table

I got a call on 14th July 2010 about a big bird injured on a farm yard near Holycross.

But sadly we were too late to save her as her wing was in an awful state as it had been broken for a week or so and it was all infected and had maggots in it, so it was humanly PTS.

At least her suffering is now over and she is now at peace running free at rainbow bridge.

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Her poor wing was a total mess

Here you can see the exposed bone