Jill Taylor

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Baby season is upon us and sadly, once again, these poor little animals are being kept by the finders instead of being brought into a rescue to get the life saving treatment they need.
Yes they look cute, but they need an expert eye and experienced hands, not your curiosity.
PLEASE NEVER KEEP ANY WILDLIFE YOU FIND.
You aren't helping, you are just causing more suffering.
Hedgehogs are delicate little animals with very special needs, and are all too easy to kill with enthusiasm and goodwill.
Their very lives depend on you doing the right thing.

Below are images of the same hoglet, taken 10 minutes apart.
This baby and her siblings had been found crying, cold, and covered in fly eggs.
The finder proudly told me he had removed the fly eggs, and my heart dropped.
That delay, without warmth and fluids, could be fatal.
Thankfully he then brought them in before trying to feed them (and likely killing them outright).

The image on the left looks like a perfectly healthy little baby hedgehog, doesn't it?
You'd never suspect anything was wrong.
The video on the right was taken 10 minutes later, after I'd applied a substance that irritates maggots and makes them come out from where they have burrowed inside their victim.
The substance is very toxic and must be very carefully and sparingly applied by a knowledgeable and experienced rescue.
Although the finder had removed the fly eggs he could see, he had no idea there were eggs which had already hatched into maggots and had burrowed inside the poor baby's every orifice and tiny wound, out of sight.
This is just one of the many, many reasons you must never keep any wild animal you find.
They are not a DIY project, they are a precious little life that you can save, but only by doing the right thing.

Baby Izzy here and Ryder, one of her brothers, survived, and were successfully raised by the lovely Prickle Lodge, where they both still happily live today.
Tragically it was too late for her other brother.
The delay in bringing them in meant he suffered more damage, and he died shortly after arriving here.

Please put your own desires to one side and take any wildlife casualty you find straight to a rescue (never a vet).
That's what rescuing an animal really means.🥰

[PoliticsHome @politicshome]

Across the UK, more and more dogs and cats are being bred to look fashionable or cute. But this can come at a serious cost to their health and welfare.

@DannyVet and @Battersea_PA write that tackling extreme breeding must be central to animal welfare efforts.

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[Dave Goulson @DaveGoulson]

In December, the Govt will decide if it will renew the glyphosate licence until 2041…
•That’s 15 more years of impacts on worms, bees, soils and run-off into ponds and rivers, and glyphosate in your food. Sign Garden Organic’s petition NOW to ban this dangerous herbicide.

[peaklass @peaklass1]

Please, please, always keep your dog on a lead when walking in the countryside at this time of year. The fields and moors are full of babies and vulnerable nests. 🪺

[AnimalJusticeProject @ajpReact]

🚨 Plans are underway for a massive industrial ‘livestock’ shed at Whyr Farm in Wiltshire.

The building covers over 2,000 square metres and will potentially confine hundreds of mother cows and their calves; 200 young cows under a year old, and many more older animals destined for the slaughterhouse and supermarket shelves.

This is how factory farming grows. We can’t stay silent.

⏳ Deadline to object: Thursday 22nd May
📢 Check our blog for key points and take action
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[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

The Telegraph has reported that almost half of NHS hospitals are using advanced practitioners to cover doctors’ shifts.

Some of these shifts would ordinarily be covered by doctors in the final years of specialty training; often the most senior doctor on site below consultant level.

Every NHS colleague has an important role and should be valued. But different roles involve different training, responsibilities and limits. Medical rota gaps should not be quietly filled by blurring professional boundaries.

This is a system-level concern. Patients should know who is treating them, what their role is, and whether they are being assessed by a doctor. That matters for consent and accountability.

In 2025, 40,000 doctors applied for 10,000 NHS specialty training jobs.

That means thousands of doctors who could be training to become specialist GPs, consultants were unable to progress because the number of posts is capped centrally by the Government.

At the same time, 1,000 additional specialist training jobs that were due to enter the NHS pipeline were removed by Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer.

So we now have a system where doctors are trying to train, hospitals are struggling to fill medical rotas, and patients are left with less clarity about who is providing their care.

If the NHS does not have enough doctors on the rota, the answer is simple: train enough doctors, employ enough doctors, and give patients clarity about who is treating them.
https://t.co/4sdgWqcLNB

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

A horse-drawn carriage company is attempting to get a license in Canterbury – tell the council to refuse it! #CanterburyHorseCarriages https://t.co/3h6t9Gk5aV. PLEASE SIGN this petition. It is Cruelty disguised as pleasure - pleasure only for the punters😡😡

[Once a Scruffy Cop @scruffycop]

This is why there needs to be bespoke legislation regarding Catapults. Made & adapted. Please share our link to encourage your local MP to attend a drop in session on the 3rd March. @domdyer70 @natalieben @JournoJane #targetcrimenotwildlife
#wildlife https://t.co/UbBd6V7WhL

[Naturewatch Foundation @Naturewatch_org]

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[Ireland's Trees & Mythology @Tree_Folklore]

Some people once believed that an Oak tree could draw illness out of the body 🌳✨

If you walked in a circle around a great Oak and wished your ailment away, the first bird to land in its branches was said to carry that illness off with it...just as easily as if it were taking a fallen twig 🪶

It may seem unlikely, yet it is rooted in the truth that without thriving native trees and the wildlife they sustain, we humans cannot truly thrive either 🪄

[Don Staniford @TheGAAIA]

Thousands of fish farm workers could be at risk of 'salmon asthma' reports @DanVevers @Daily_Record @BFAWUOfficial @sarahwoolley01 @ScotlandSalmon
https://t.co/xjk7yL6hNI

[Hunt Saboteurs Association @HuntSabs]

“Trail” hunting yesterday at the Herefordshire & Clifton Hunt “children’s meet”.

Looks like the rag fell into a badger sett.

Police informed.

📸 Herefordshire Hunt Sabs.

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

KFC, Nando's & others ditch chicken welfare pledge
@BBCNews
"8 restaurant groups which include the owners of @BurgerKingUK & @Nando's have left the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC) in which they pledged to stop using fast-growing chickens"
"Putting profit over animal welfare..."
Thank you @marksandspencer @waitrose & chains Pret & Greggs for remaining members of the BCC
@ciwf
https://t.co/Cg9EzW2d17

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Ministers to consider removing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from line of succession.

Govt can also use legislative time to create laws to prosecute
Water company execs.
People behind the Post Office and Grenfell scandals.
Corporate execs for tax abuse.
https://t.co/IcNEtjMAUU

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

RT if you agree!

Shame on #Morocco and #FIFAWorldCup 😡!

[Tangwa Abilu.🌿🌏🌾🍀🍃.SDG's. @AbiluTangwa]

🚨 Alert: Insects are vanishing at an alarming rate,up to 76% decline in flying insect biomass over 27 years in Germany alone.This "insect apocalypse" is driven by pesticides & habitat loss, threatening our ecosystems. We must act NOW to save them! #SaveInsects #NoPesticides

[Dr Haseena Wazir @DrHWazir]

Labour brought in tuition fees. The Conservatives tripled them. The result is a generation of doctors starting work with £100,000+ of debt hanging over them.

Interest rates are so high on Plan 2 loans that balances can grow even while repayments are being made.

I went to state school. I was the first from my family to study medicine. I graduated with around £75,000 of student debt. I’ve been paying it back for years.

Despite that, I now owe around £90,000 due to astronomically high interest rates on the Plan 2 loans.

That is not a system built on fairness. It is a system that traps people in decades of repayments for choosing a public service profession.

Medicine already demands years of training, antisocial hours, and delayed earning potential. Adding six figure debt on top of that tilts the scales even further against anyone without a privileged financial background.

If you come from a working-class background, the message is clear: you can come in, but you will carry the financial burden for decades.

This policy restricts social mobility. It entrenches inequality. And it weighs down an entire generation of graduates before their careers have even properly begun.

The system must change.

[Humane World for Animals UK @humaneworlduk]

Here is committed animal advocate @JoshNewburyMP making a compelling case in Parliament for putting truth on meat labels. We completely agree: mandatory animal welfare labelling would make a huge difference for animals, consumers and British farmers

[Sue Doxat @SDoxat]

@Mediamadness18 @domdyer70 Artificial grass is madness. Rubber play surfaces for kids are full of toxic chemicals. Great if you wish to share this UK petition https://t.co/K6wpYAi4IU

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

So true