Gill Peters

Prefer dogs to most people. T1D

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

If you can't see any puddles around it means wildlife go thirsty, if they can't find a pond or river.
Just as many animals die of dehydration in the winter as they do in the summer, and even more when those natural resources freeze.
Subzero temperatures are predicted for next week, so please prepare now, to ensure the life saving water you kindly provide does not freeze.
The easiest way is with a water heater. It's simply a warm base you place your normal water dish on.
It's gently heated and costs no more than a lightbulb to run, so it can be plugged in and forgotten about all winter, providing safe, worry free and ice free water every night.
And all day too - the birds will be queuing up to bath!
They last for years and the wire is thin enough to run under a door if you don't have an outside electric supply.
Or set up a dry box (you can use it for your Christmas lights too!).
Google 'poultry water heater' to find a supplier.
Alternatively you can insulate and protect the water dishes you have out (see video below).
Placing water dishes close to your house, front and back, means they stay ice-free longer, as the residue warmth raises the temperature slightly.
Thank you for providing life-saving water.❤️

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

TV presenter @PhilSpencerTV blocked us before for sharing this image, so we’re here to remind everyone that he takes pleasure in killing animals. He’d probably hate it if you shared this again.

[Gill Peters @Gill106]

@markirwin88 Me on most days 🫤

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Have you ever wondered what butterflies and other insects do in the winter?
A few enter a dormant state as they are, but mostly it's their eggs and caterpillars that survive the winter and provide the following year's butterflies.
And where do these precious eggs and larvae spend winter?
In dead vegetation, leaf litter, old plant stems, long dying grass..
...you know - all the stuff we're dying to get rid of so our gardens look nice and tidy for winter.
Nice and dead for winter.
PLEASE LEAVE THE GARDEN LITTER.
It'll still be there in the spring, you can tidy it away then. But if you want butterflies and pollinators next year, please exhaust your urge to tidy up by litterpicking the streets.
Right now your garden is a nursery.
Please let it sleep in peace.

[Gill Peters @Gill106]

@DSN_Amanda @BT1DUK Love this ❤️

[Gill Peters @Gill106]

@Crap_Portraits Louie Walsh?

[Gill Peters @Gill106]

@thesquiggleking Fantastic!

[Gill Peters @Gill106]

@Crap_Portraits Definitely Frank Carson 👍

[Bob Mortimer's Stunt Double. @Davidm1969]

Classic album covers brought to life by AI Marvin gave me goosebumps.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

If you haven't seen it yet here is the 30 second version of the campaign video.

Share it far and wide. #floodthestreets turn your outrage into action.

Join us, Sat 26th Oct, Parliament Square.

https://t.co/U79uuJ1ik0 @MarchforWater

[Gill Peters @Gill106]

@Crap_Portraits Beautiful!

[Gill Peters @Gill106]

Check this out: https://t.co/YNZp4iLtpi

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Yeah, sorry, it's long - grab a coffee.

This message is for all the bad rescues who think that they can do whatever they like to the helpless hedgehogs entrusted into their care, and who think of themselves as superior to 'members of the public'.
Yes, I mean you, @FunnybunnyQ and @HappyHedgehog3, among others.
Let me be clear - you ARE members of the public. Because you also run a rescue that doesn't make you any different from anyone else, and the laws of the land apply to you, just as they do to me, and to everyone else.
It is illegal to tag a wild hedgehog without a licence.
You don't have any special dispensation because you've decided to set up as a rescue.
You are a member of the public.
You're not conducting some survey or post-release monitoring, or gathering important information.
You'd need a licence for that.
You are a member of the public illegally supergluing a tube of plastic with your phone number onto a hedgehog who will then go out and eventually die. Like tagging a bit of luggage, branding her, claiming ownership.
It's pointless.
It's playing scientist.
It's exploitation of a helpless animal.
It's an ego trip.
It's treating our precious wild animals as disposable toys
It's abuse.
It's a hideous betrayal of trust, both the finder's and the wild hedgehog's.
It's cruel.
It's a crime.
So those rescues who not only are vanity tagging illegally, but are boasting about it, are committing a crime.
(thank you to all my followers who sent me screen shots from those accounts who have blocked me)
And because it seems you don't believe me when I tell you this, I contacted Natural England and asked them to write it out, nice and simply. Please see their letter below.

To my lovely followers:
thank you for your incredible support in this matter. I would really appreciate it if you could retweet this message to those who have blocked me, and to any rescue that you catch tagging their victims, so they can see it. Not just on Twitter but Facebook and other SM platforms.
Then they'll have no excuse that they weren't warned.

It's well recognised that applying a tag adversly affects a wild animal's welfare, which is why the licensing laws were introduced, to restrict it to formal research by a recognised body, and prevent just anyone grabbing a wild animal and sticking a tag with their name or phone number on. And before the licence is granted, it must be proven that the advantages to the animal and the species outweighs the harm caused.
A hedgehog's coat is their everything, and their only form of defense. They spend a lot of time grooming it, scratching, shaking out the spines so they lay flat and stay in good condition, ready for deployment at a moment's notice. To have something stuck to them, permanantly, that they can't remove, causes terrible chronic stress, added to the stress of being held down while they are glued on.
Unlike our pets and domesticated animals, stress kills wildlife.
So everything a good rescue does involves reducing their stress as much as possible.
Gluing on tags can cause Stress Induced Immune Suppression.
This is where the immune system is directly disrupted by the endocrine response to stress. Which means any small infection, minor parasite invasion - anything that the average hedgehog normally encounters upon release and shrugs off - will meet no resistence and will overwhelm and kill them.
This can take several weeks of suffering before death occurs.
Rescues are allowed to keep wild animals for life-saving treatment ONLY. They can't then add their vanity calling card and send them off with it.
Any veterinary intervention (that means animal treatment, nothing to do with vets) must be essential only and kept to a minimum, to avoid fatal stress reactions, like Stress Induced Immune Suppression.
So, for Liesel, and all the other victims out there, this is for you. I'm so sorry you were betrayed, but know this -now they are informed decent people won't tolerate this abuse.
If any rescue continues tagging, please let me know and take screenshots, and I will report them for the crime, as advised by Natural England.
Thank you.

[Gill Peters @Gill106]

@type1diawoman @GBDocInfo I’ve just had a stay in hospital and they left me to it. 👍

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

This tiny little baby girl is Noa.
Noa weighs just 99 grams.
She's suffering from severe malnutrition and starvation because we've destroyed her natural food.
She should be stuffing herself with caterpillars, but look around. How many butterflies have you seen this year?
Until nature can recover (which means all of us have to act responsibly and allow our gardens to be less controlled, more natural and wild) we need to provide food for these gentle, trusting, silent victims of our excesses.
See how just a little cat food animates this poor starving scrap of life? You could be saving a life like this, tonight, in your garden.
This is Royal Canin Mother and Babycat food soaked in warm water; a special food because poor baby Noa is so malnourished and weak. But any cat or dog food is great; wet or dry, as long as meat is the first listed ingredient. Dry kitten food is perfect.
Thankfully baby Noa made it through the night, but is still very fragile and her recovery is uncertain.
There are so many baby Noas out there right now, in the desert of decking and manicured lawns, desperately seeking just a little kindness.
Please be their oasis tonight.

[Gill Peters @Gill106]

@bagshaw2112 #magiceye mario!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The American's produced this video to celebrate the Tories losing.

[Gill Peters @Gill106]

@HedgehogCabin The mission is underway!