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Greggy

Meet Greggy, a 3 year old, male, lop rabbit.  He is a charming and inquisitive boy with a big personality!  This cheeky chap is full of curiosity and affection, and he’s on the lookout for a neutered and vaccinated female rabbit to be his lifelong companion. Alternatively, Greggy could be rehomed as a single indoor rabbit.

Greggy is a true foodie who never misses a meal, and while he may not be a lap bunny, he loves to sit beside you, keeping you company in his own way.

Please click here to apply.

 

Emmy

Emmy is a 1 year old female rabbit.  She is a friendly and inquisitive rabbit, who’s full of personality.  She loves to explore her surroundings and enjoys being involved in whatever’s going on around her.  When it’s time to relax, she can usually be found snuggled up with her favourite blanket, looking perfectly content.

Emmy is now searching for a loving home where she can be bonded with a neutered and vaccinated male rabbit for companionship.  She’d make a wonderful addition to a home that can offer her space to hop, play, and plenty of affection.

Please click here to apply.

Jessie and Jimmy

We are currently looking for outdoor homes for this pair of young cats.  They were not handled when young so would not be able to adapt to a domestic set-up, so instead we are looking for an alternative home for them.

Jessie and Jimmy will likely make good hunters so would make a great addition to a stables, farm, or similar set up.  Ideally, we would like for these cats to go out as a pair but if you already have cats on the property, they could be split.

Please click here to apply.

Silly Season comes around every year, just like clockwork!

Staff at Wadars animal rescue are so sure they can set their clocks by the influx of orphaned and injured seagull chicks that they are called out to rescue each year, that they even hold a competition to guess the exact day that the first one will come in!

Animal rescue officer, Elaine Sinclair commented; “The last week of May is usually when we can expect to have to rescue the first gull chick. The majority of them will have fallen from the roof where they have been nesting. By the end of the summer last year we had dealt with more than 600 birds. We refer to it as Silly Season, as we are literally run off our feet rescuing the chicks.”

Elaine added; “Wherever possible we will always put the gull chick back up onto the roof that it fell from, but sometimes that isn’t possible, and in those cases we get them checked by a vet and then either care for them at our own site, or find a place at another wildlife centre until they are old enough to be released.” 

Support Wadars’ 50th
anniversary by taking up the 50/50 Challenge

Wadars animal rescue, based in Ferring, has been rescuing wildlife and rehoming companion animals for the last 50 years, and is now calling on local people to help raise vital funds for its work by taking up its ‘50/50 Challenge’.

It costs Wadars more than £400,000 a year to provide its services in the local community, and the charity relies on voluntary contributions to bring that money in. More than 90p in every £1 spent by the charity goes directly on animal welfare.

Wadars Operations Manager, Tracy Cadman said; “The Wadars 50/50 Challenge is a really simple way for anyone to support us during our 50th anniversary year. Basically, we are just asking people to raise £50 for us in whichever way suits them. Even if people were able to donate just £1 a week then over the course of the year, they would reach the £50 target.

There are so many ways that people can raise the £50, for example they might want to make a one-off donation which would be amazing, alternatively they could take part in an event such as Walk for Wadars and raise the money through sponsorship or even hold a coffee morning with friends and family.”

Tracy added; “It might not seem as if £50 helps very much in the overall scheme of things, but it could pay for a wildlife pen in which to house an injured hedgehog until it could be released back into the wild; or for a cat that we take in for rehoming to receive a vet check and flea and worm treatment. Every £50 raised will affect the life of at least one animal in our care.”

Wadars will provide support for anyone taking up the 50/50 Challenge and in addition to advice, can supply sponsor forms; collecting tins; balloons; and blank posters for people to use to promote their challenge.

To find out more about taking up the Wadars 50/50 Challenge, call 01903 247111 or email enquiries@wadars.co.uk

Wadars acts as the local wildlife emergency service

From time to time Wadars rescue officers are called out to deal with larger types of wildlife including trapped or injured deer.

 

One such call was dealt with by Wadars senior animal rescue officer, Billy Elliot, who responded to a call from the Warden at the RSPB’s Pulborough Brooks nature reserve, reporting two young stags that were caught in some discarded fencing. Not only were they both caught up, they were actually tethered to each other by the wire which was caught around both sets of antlers.

 

Billy and the Warden eventually managed to remove the wire and the younger of the two deer immediately took off, whilst the older one was exhausted from trying to escape from the tangle and had almost drowned in the boggy ground.

 

Rather than take him away, the decision was taken to move the exhausted animal to drier ground and leave him to recover, which he did and eventually disappeared back into the undergrowth none the worse for his ordeal! 

 

 

 

Caring for our feathered friends for over 50 years

Over the last 50 years Wadars animal rescue charity has dealt with many thousands of wild and domestic animals and birds and last year alone it responded to calls from concerned members of the public relating to more than 1,350 wildlife casualties. A large proportion of the calls are about sick or injured birds, which can range in size from small garden birds to large birds of prey and swans.

Each year between late May and September, Wadars Animal Rescue Officers spend much of their time responding to calls about young seagulls that have fallen from roof tops. In 2018 Wadars rescue officers, supported by a team of trained wildlife volunteers, responded to callouts to more than 600 seagull chicks.

Wherever possible rescue officers will return the gull chicks back onto the roof that they fell from as they stand a much better chance of survival with their parents than coming into a wildlife centre.

A few weeks before Christmas Wadars animal rescue officer Julie Brewer was called to a local garage to assist with a buzzard which had flown full pelt into the grill of a van that was travelling on the motorway near Portsmouth.

Despite the bird being well and truly jammed into the grill of the van, the driver continued on to Worthing before he realised what had happened. Rescue officer, Julie was able to help cut it free and then took it along to a local vet where it was thoroughly checked over for any injuries.

 X-rays revealed that nothing was broken and after a short period of recuperation, the buzzard was eventually released by Wadars back into the area that it originally came from.