Kay

Enjoying life one day at a time..
Love my family, friends, wildlife and pets - especially #hedgehogs and #guineapigs

[Kay @kay8469]

@NiallHarbison What a transformation! He'll never need to feel hungry, scared or pain again. 🥰

[Kay @kay8469]

How on earth can these people, who have been voted in on promises made to the electorate represent their consituents when they haven't a clue! 😳🫣😫
#reformuk

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

🚨 SHOCKING — These are the exact same Reform activists who flood X every day screaming, lecturing, and telling everyone how Britain should be run…

Yet 24 hours after getting elected in Kirklees, they stand up in full council and admit:

“I don’t understand the Constitution…
I don’t understand standing orders…
I don’t understand what an amendment is.”

Then they whine it’s “not democratic” they might vote on things they don’t understand

This is the terrifying danger of populist rage politics: loud online warriors with ZERO clue how to actually govern.

Handing real power to people who don’t even know where to start is how countries collapse.
Watch this embarrassment 👇👇👇👇CC: @LesTrumpeter

[UKSwifts @swifts_uk]

Please retweet and spread the word!
What to do when you find a grounded swift 👇

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Please NEVER feed a daytime wildlife casualty.
I know, it's so hard not to.
When we see a suffering animal we feel a strong, innate impulse to help, and a desire to provide immediate tangible comfort; equating food with survival and care.
Feeding feels like a direct, immediate and nurturing action to alleviate suffering.
Yet it is the most catastrophically harmful thing you could ever do.
Especially hedgehogs out in the day, who will be hypothermic.
It takes a lot of energy to digest food, energy these compromised animals just don't have spare.
Every last bit of their energy is being used to maintain vital bodily functions - to keep the heart beating, to oxygenate the organs.
Forcing energy away from these critical functions for something as non-critical as digesting food will be a death sentence.
It won't be immediate, it may take hours, or a couple of days, but eventually, no matter what the experienced rescue you later take them to tries, the animal is already on the unstoppable journey into shock, aspiration, organ failure and death.
So please help in the right way.
An out in the day hedgehog needs *contact* warmth, a safe indoor space away from flies, and cover to reduce their stress (please see advice below).
They are not going to die of starvation in the couple of hours between you finding them, and getting them to a rescue.😊
And please remember - any website that gives you DIY information on caring for or feeding injured or orphaned wildlife is, by default, wrong.
The ONLY right action is to get them to a good rescue (never a vet) where their complex needs can be met.
Even if you have seen this vital information before and understand it, feeding wildlife casualties is a powerful compulsion because it directly activates human instincts of empathy and compassion, often overriding the scientific advice against it.
So please remember this warning and spread it as far as you can.
Helping a wildlife casualty get to the expert treatment they need is an incredibly kind, altruistic act of great humanity. Just remember to provide them with what they need, not what you need.🥰

[Kay @kay8469]

@Coachingmy2boys @jnuffer Oh my, this is so emotional and made me think of all the fabulous souls who have enriched my life. Crying because they aren't with us long enough. Smiling for the huge impact each has had on my life! ❤️💔❤️

[Kay @kay8469]

Donate to my fundraising page and help raise life-saving cash for #StandUpToCancer https://t.co/8c8a9dZut5

[Kay @kay8469]

ACTÚA. MISMOS PERROS, MISMOS DERECHOS. No a la desprotección legal de los perros de caza. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/vTLItyiN1s via @UKChange

[Kay @kay8469]

@NiallHarbison A special home for a truly special and remarkable boy. Go live your best life #Stormzy

[Kay @kay8469]

Text is bound to be edited to fit a programme. But edited to include misinformation is wrong on so many levels. @BBC #WILDLONDON

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Wild London David Attenborough
I'm getting so many posts from lovely people absolutely outraged at the misinformation regarding hedgehogs and slugs presented on this show yesterday, so I'll just address it here.
David Attenbourough is a really lovely man, and has done an immense amount of good for us, our wildlife, and our planet.
But he, like any other TV presenter, relies on programme researchers for script content.
The researchers, in turn, rely on who they *perceive to be* experts in the field.
Unfortunately, they were taken in by some clever branding and chose the wrong people:
A self-proclaimed 'hedgehog expert', often funded by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (see their most recent dangerous misinformation, and my response, published here:https://t.co/YWqTd4PIkv)
And the London Wildlife Trust.
Recently the London Wildlife Trust engaged me as an expert consultant on a 4 page spread article about hedgehog myths.
Many of you have seen my interview, and the draft of the subsequent article.
I was sent this draft (see 1st image below) for approval, to which I agreed.
However, before going to print, an executive at London Wildlife trust decided to do some editing of his own.
It's shocking, I know, and would be unbelievable, if not here in actual print.
I've included two versions of the full article below:
the first draft approved by me and the team at LWT, and the second actual printed version, after executive 'editing'.
It was this same London Wildlife Trust who co-produced the Wild London documentary and "provided expert help and advice".
So now you know.
We're all shocked.
But of course, as usual, it's the poor hedgehogs who will suffer.
People won't provide food for our critically endangered hedgehogs, or bother keeping their garden natural and wild, now they've been told that hedgehogs eat slugs.
After all, there's plenty of them to go round.
Rescues all around the country, who are treating hedgehogs dying of lungworm from being forced through starvation into eating slugs, will feel so demoralised and invalidated.
Like you, I'm furious, frustrated, and bone-wearily saddened.

[Kay @kay8469]

@NiallHarbison She's beautiful! What a transformation in such a short time. 🥰

[Kay @kay8469]

@NiallHarbison Go Stormzy! His tail never stops! Gorgeous boy! 🥰

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

RT if you think FOX HUNTING should incur a JAIL sentence of at least 5 years!!

Did You Know? Sentencing for illegally ripping a Fox apart is PATHETIC!! 😡😡

In England and Wales, the maximum sentence for an offence under the Hunting Act 2004 is an unlimited fine; custodial sentences are not available for this specific offence. 😡

In Scotland, however, the maximum penalty under the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023 can be up to 12 months imprisonment and a fine of up to £40,000.

[Kay @kay8469]

Please help spread the word about the National Emergency Briefing on the climate & nature crisis to politicians, influential people, and the public. Only when we confront this head-on can we rise to the challenge.
https://t.co/dEcP9PCp5h

[Kay @kay8469]

@tws_pk2 Beautiful Bhaloo! 🥰

[Martha Scargill #FBPE @ahshudupayaface]

@MarinaPurkiss

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Fireworks.
Just don't.
Please.
It's so cruel.
Stress kills wildlife.
Please choose, and teach your children, kindness.
We have so many ways of entertaining ourselves which don't involve the suffering and death of animals.
🔊

[Kay @kay8469]

@Protect_Wldlife YES

[Kay @kay8469]

@CarlBovisNature Agreed. They are stunning and so entertaining! I love them! 🥰

[Hedgehog Society @hedgehogsociety]

Have you spotted a #hedgehog you're worried about?
📞🦔🩹
Follow the simple steps on our website & call us on 01584 890801 or your local independent hedgehog rescue as soon as possible.

https://t.co/Qd9aQ4At6t

Don't delay - acting now can make a difference!
#MondayMotivation

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Suicide.

I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis.

You take a rope.
You put it up in a garage or a tree nearby or far away.
You're thinking about every loved one you'll leave behind as you put that rope around your neck.
Then you drop.

Some are decapitated.
Some aren't.
All are found by someone who has a lifetime of trauma that will never leave them.
A son.
A daughter.
A brother.
A sister.
A mother.
A father.

I know 2 men who hung themselves.

One was found by his Mom.
One was found by his brother.
Neither have recovered fully. 20 and 30 years on.

A life sentence for people who were already worrying, terrified their loved one may do something.

So just visualise the above and ask, "is there another way"?

A segway for a moment.

I do a few Q&A's every year. Tales of yesterday with a 99% male audience of my age group.

After the stories and fun, my last question back to the audience is..

"Hands up if you struggle with a mental health issue".

Nobody ever puts a hand up. Despite 1 in every 3 of 500 attendees statistically struggling.

"Ah, nobody, that's fucking brilliant! Well I do! ". I then graphically tell people, stunned into silence about how a rope around my neck in the middle of nowhere jolted me to go home and cry like a baby to my Mom.

After the Q&A has finished, something always happens. I'll be chatting to a few guys, saying bye and one by one, men will come over and whisper " I struggle".

Or my mailbox the next day will have 30 emails from guys, their partners or kids saying " Dad/Uncle /Brother was there last night and what you said hit them hard".

And that's how some people realise that it's time to speak to a pal or family member or even rant to me in an email. It works, I often get a follow up email a year or 6 later saying that they took responsibility for their suicidal feelings and are now flying.

Humans are programmed to want to live, to have families and to keep the species growing and thriving. So for a human to want to short circuit that desire isn't normal, and it should never be spoken of as normal. It's the ultimate red flag.

If you suspect your mate, Dad, Brother, Uncle is struggling mentally, they deserve your intervention.

They deserve a " are you OK, please tell me what's up".

They deserve an opportunity to get past wanting to hang a rope over a tree or in a garage and slowly struggle until they die and you find them.

If you've been there and trust me I have plenty, then you'll know that text out of the blue, or a footie mate or one of your kids asking jow you are can open the curtains to some sunshine.

Because when suicide is your only answer, the room is already dark, and you can't see a way out.

So please, fucking pretty please, ask that husband, Dad, Uncle, Cousin, footie pal TODAY how they are.

You may be shocked what comes back but extremely glad that you asked.

For those who struggle, you're not alone.