Brinsley Animal Rescue

Brinsley Animal Rescue 🌍Located in Nottinghamshire
Registered Charity 1213052 (formally 1135508)
We rescue 🦅wildlife 🐇pets &🐄 farm animals. Run by volunteers for animals.
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www.brinsleyanimalrescue.org

Brinsley Animal Rescue is a Charity run for animals by volunteers, we rescue wild animals, pets and farm animals.

This year we have rescued 25 foxes, of these 20 were cubs, sadly many were too injured or ill to save. This chap is one ...
21/06/2026

This year we have rescued 25 foxes, of these 20 were cubs, sadly many were too injured or ill to save. This chap is one of our successes, it's so great to see him finally join one of our groups of cubs.

He arrived in May in a sorry state, he had very infected wounds and serious injuries, he could not walk or even stand, so it was off to our vets. That day x-rays confirmed that he had a fractured hip joint, although the injuries were treatable, treatment was dependent on him recovering from infection and getting strong enough for surgery. He spent the next couple of days in our hospital on a drip to rehydrate and keep hydrated, he was given pain relief and antibiotics and his wounds were cleaned and dressed.

His recovery was truly remarkable, a week later he went in for surgery at Vets for Pets Eastwood. The ball at the end of the femur on his right leg was fractured, so he had a "femoral head and neck excision". This is a surgical procedure that removes the "ball" of the hip joint and allows the body to build a flexible "false joint" held together by surrounding scar tissue and muscles. This type of operation is very effective in pets, but possibly the first in a little foxy!

A few weeks of close post surgery treatment and recovery and our boy is running around, it's truly amazing to see all of the effort so worthwhile. We are very mindful that handling him so much for this treatment can imprint, we need to get him wild to prepare him for his release in the Autumn. He is now with three other cubs and acting as a cub should be, he's playing, fighting and thankfully now attacking us!!

This photo of a Jackdaw was taken shortly after arrival this week. We have never seen one in such a sorry state, they ar...
20/06/2026

This photo of a Jackdaw was taken shortly after arrival this week. We have never seen one in such a sorry state, they are half the size they should be, very thin and have hardly any feathers.

Currently they are being tube fed three times a day to help their recovery and have been treated for external parasites.

This condition could be nutritionally related caused from a poor diet, something we are increasingly seeing with our changing climate resulting in a lack of food to feed young. It could also be liver disease. so when they are strong enough we can consider sending blood samples away for tests.

After a few days and a little stronger, we put them with another Jackdaw fledgling a week or so older. To our amazement we witnessed him feeding this chap, despite the fact they had only just started feeding themselves!

Corvids are truly remarkable birds, they are super intelligent and so full of character.

Can you remember Benny who we rescued back in October last year?Benny, a piglet at the time, was found on a busy A road ...
19/06/2026

Can you remember Benny who we rescued back in October last year?

Benny, a piglet at the time, was found on a busy A road and brought to us by a member of the public who stopped to save him from being hit by a car.

It was clear that Benny was not well, he had very infected eyes, in fact they had both raptured through infection and they could not be saved. Benny made the national news when he had life saving surgery at our vets Vets for Pets Eastwood to remove his painful eyes.

Benny, despite being totally blind is thriving, he is a real character, cheeky and often naughty, he has adapted so well. He knows where the gates are into the fields and his enclosure, he soon lets us know that he was to go through them, he knows exactly where the water trough are and the other pigs, you wouldn't know he was blind. In the morning when we first let him out, he will charge up the field often barking and stop just short of the fence before visiting all of the other pigs.

Thank you to everyone who has nominated us for the BBC Radio Nottingham Make a Difference Awards 2026, we are through to...
18/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who has nominated us for the BBC Radio Nottingham Make a Difference Awards 2026, we are through to the final for the animal category and have been invited to the awards ceremony.

We might actually get a night off to attend, fingers crossed for us!!

18/06/2026

Remember two of the Tawny owlets that we took in a few weeks ago after the tree they were in had fallen, one has been to see the experts at Pride Veterinary Referrals for an assessment.

17/06/2026

We currently have four Tawny owls in our care and three Barn owls. Two of these tawnys arrived as owlets after thier tree callapsed, they have been hand reared and are now spening time in the aviary before thier release is a few weeks.

One of many calls this morning, a badger caught up in netting. He had been there for sometime and was completely tangled...
14/06/2026

One of many calls this morning, a badger caught up in netting. He had been there for sometime and was completely tangled up round his neck. Fortunately we were able to cut the netting off and his skin was not severed otherwise he would need to come into our hospital facility. We felt it was best to release straight away back to the area he knows. A little disorientated he soon went off towards his sett after his ordeal. Thanks to the lovely family for calling us and they are now removing the net and finding a different location for their beans in their very productive garden. ❤️.

Millie was recued some months ago, a heavily pregnant cat, in our care she had 5 kittens. Months on she is now treated a...
11/06/2026

Millie was recued some months ago, a heavily pregnant cat, in our care she had 5 kittens. Months on she is now treated and neutered and in a new home and a pair of her kittens will be homed this week.

This leaves two girls and a boy, Willow, Juniper and Rowan who are are 12 weeks old today 🎉🥳🎂 all three are looking for the forever homes.

Ideally we are seeking a home where they can stay together (better for their mental and social development), this may be difficult so we would consider a home to a pair.

All have been blood tested negative for FIV and FeLV, they are all chipped, wormed and fully vaccinated. We will neuter them once mature enough.

Yesterday we had an extremely busy day with almost 100 phone calls and messages predominantly for wildlife, many cat att...
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

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