As we enter yet another week of drought conditions please, I beg you, put out water for the wildlife.
They have nothing.
No puddles.
No ponds.
No streams.
All have dried up.
Sometimes the birds are thought of and provided for.
But the nocturnal animals go unseen.
Unthought of.
No kind dishes.
Just the tantalising smell of water from a pond they may drown in, or a drain they may get trapped in.
Or a stagnant, dirty old birdbath they may get fatal fluke from.
Hedgehogs need to drink a lot of water to stay healthy. Please provide clean, fresh, safe, ground level water each evening for our precious nocturnal wildlife.
Tap water is best.
Pop a dish or two out tonight.
Dying of thirst is a terrible, painful way to die.
It should never happen to any animal, and certainly not in a country that has the safest tap water in the world.
The few minutes it takes you to fill a dish will make the difference between life and death.❤️
@SceneinCinema Everyday I pray that someday they will release the directors version rated R cut. (And throw a Spooky Island themed premiere for it. And I would go because the set design for this movie was fabulous.)
And like Miley Cyrus said:
“I didn’t talk badly about you—I talked about what you did to me. If that makes you look bad, that’s not my problem anymore.”
#Wildlife
This is an endangered Mahogany glider, tangled up in barbed wire—a common fate.
Struggling all night, they die of thirst, or are eaten alive in pain and terror. This one had two babies in her pouch.
We've taken 80% of their forest in their only home, North Queensland, Australia. What's left is hopelessly fragmented, further speeding their decline.
We don't just drive species to extinction: we subject them to torture first.
When you see a hedgehog out in the day time please remember he's been sick for a long time before taking this last desperate step.
He's dying.
IT'S AN EMERGENCY.
Take him indoors in the warmth and ring a rescue IMMEDIATELY.
Find your nearest rescue here: https://t.co/4aVuxNdtSI
This poor collapsed boy is baby Miller. Found laying out on the lawn in the morning by a couple who provide water and mealworms for their birds.
Our hedgehogs are starving.
Mealworms are lethal to hedgehogs.
A diet of mealworms or other bird food will deform growing joints in hedgehogs, and make their bones thin and easily broken, resulting in an agonising death.
But we've destroyed the hedgehog's natural habitat, along with their natural food of caterpillars and beetles, so they are forced to survive on anything they can find.
Please clear away any bird food before dusk, and provide some dry kitten/cat food for your nocturnal visitors, to help keep them healthy and safe.
Any type, as long as meat is the first listed ingredient. Dry kitten food is perfect.
Poor baby Miller is in intensive care, receiving fluids, potent pain relief and drugs to keep him alive long enough to heal. His prognosis is bleak, but there is a hope.
Please help make the world a little safer for all the little Millers out there. If you feed the birds, do so in the morning only, then take the feeders in so they can forage naturally the rest of the day. That way the ground will be clear and safe by the time the hedgehogs wake up.
Halloween artificial cobweb material:
It may be a bit of fake fun for you, but it's a very real and terrifying death for them.
And it's not only birds.
I've had my first call of the season of a hedgehog trapped in this horrific fake 'cobweb', made especially for gullible halloweeners to spread over their greenery, trapping all unsuspecting birds, insects and mammals, including hedgehogs.
The fine synthetic fibers are difficult for animals to see and can quickly wrap around their legs, spines, and neck, leading to severe injuries.
When a hedgehog struggles to free herself the web tightens, cutting off circulation and causing deep wounds. These constriction injuries often lead to permanent damage or death.
Unfortunately the call was from Manchester, so all I could do was talk them through getting the poor creature to a rescue.
Clearly she had been trapped there for at least one night, and her struggles had pulled the strong nylon strands so tightly that one of her toes had been amputated.
Can you imagine the pain and the sheer terror?
And then seeing dawn approach, while hanging there, tightly bound and helpless.
Aside from being stressed, dehydrated, starving and exhausted to the point of near death, she also had horrific bite/peck wounds to her face, where she had been held there, helpless, unable to curl and defend herself, while a predator tried to eat her alive.
If you have used this deadly cruel trap to 'decorate' your garden, please take it down now.
Please don't be conned by the greedy makers and sellers of this rubbish into hurting defenceless animals.
@wisepissmage I dressed up as the Garfini for Hawaii’s Halloween Runway Show.
Thank you @wisepissmage & @dumbitchjuce for the inspiration. My friend Amber sewed the costume in 3 days following along with your picture.