CoreysMummy
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I was just wondering what animals you guys may have rescued/adopted over your time...??
When living at home with my mum, dad and little brother...
Mum appeared home with a hedgehog, saying it looked as though it had been hit by a car, she was right, after taking it to the vets, it was given back to us with 3 legs!!
Bless it. By then it had missed the hybernation time, so we kept it in the house until happy that it could survive on its own and all the other hoggys were out and about...! We had another headgehog after that too, a little TINY baby one that had become detached from hits mother in our garden... 5 days mum saw it lurking in the garden... so we fed it - they love dog food, thats what the vet told us to feed, so we put food out, but this tiny little one was the only one that appeared, again hybernation time had appeared, and this little one was about so we brought it in the house too, and looked after it... come summer, we let him go in the garden again!!
There was the time a mummy duck and loads of little ducklings came in the garden - SO CUTE! And the mummy duck and all the ducklings bar one left the garden... this was a damaged one
So, again, off down the vets... we had to bath the baby bird in salt water for its wound on its foot every day - it swam in circles 
bless!! It slept in a cage under my brothers lamp for warmth! It grew and grew, until it was in my little brothers sand pit, we'd emptyed and filled with water... the duck lived in my rabbit hutch (the rabbits had grown old and died years previously). The duck was not caged in or anything, it chose to stay there!! Then one day it was gone I do hope it flew away... Id hate to think of anything else poor thing!!
Christ, apart from that, the Cats used to bring in voles, shrews, mice... we always tried to save them by taking them off the cat. oooh, oooh, there was baby mice in our shed once... I was about... 8 or 9, and Id found these dead mice, two of them, tiny they were, all cold and hard, anyways, I was stroking them - they were so soft, and bloody hell they started moving!!! I cudnt believe it, it was like id revived these mice, anyway we were going the zoo in london that day, and I didnt want to leave these mice, so, took them in a box, along with a syringe with, milk I think...!? And fed them every so offten, kept them warm... Put them back in the shed though, as I could not keep them really. I hope they made it past then! I never found any dead mice in the shed so should have been OK!
Theres two cats mum has adopted, they just turn up, and look skraggely and mum cant help but feed them, next thing they are down the vets being neutered and having a chip put in and sleeping on my bleeding bed!!!
Theres one at the moment that will sit on the kitchen window sill and look in at us... its all black but its fat, so well fed from somewhere, and it beats up our two cats, so... mum dosent want to encourage it in the house. The other one is a scruffy, skinny cat that appears every two days or so STARVING so mum feeds it, she wants to keep that one bless it, but it seems happy to be a stray that gets fed!!
I think thats all the random animals etc we've come across... damn thats a long post - sorry! Didnt realise there was that much to write!!
When living at home with my mum, dad and little brother...
Mum appeared home with a hedgehog, saying it looked as though it had been hit by a car, she was right, after taking it to the vets, it was given back to us with 3 legs!!
Bless it. By then it had missed the hybernation time, so we kept it in the house until happy that it could survive on its own and all the other hoggys were out and about...! We had another headgehog after that too, a little TINY baby one that had become detached from hits mother in our garden... 5 days mum saw it lurking in the garden... so we fed it - they love dog food, thats what the vet told us to feed, so we put food out, but this tiny little one was the only one that appeared, again hybernation time had appeared, and this little one was about so we brought it in the house too, and looked after it... come summer, we let him go in the garden again!!There was the time a mummy duck and loads of little ducklings came in the garden - SO CUTE! And the mummy duck and all the ducklings bar one left the garden... this was a damaged one
So, again, off down the vets... we had to bath the baby bird in salt water for its wound on its foot every day - it swam in circles bless!! It slept in a cage under my brothers lamp for warmth! It grew and grew, until it was in my little brothers sand pit, we'd emptyed and filled with water... the duck lived in my rabbit hutch (the rabbits had grown old and died years previously). The duck was not caged in or anything, it chose to stay there!! Then one day it was gone I do hope it flew away... Id hate to think of anything else poor thing!!Christ, apart from that, the Cats used to bring in voles, shrews, mice... we always tried to save them by taking them off the cat. oooh, oooh, there was baby mice in our shed once... I was about... 8 or 9, and Id found these dead mice, two of them, tiny they were, all cold and hard, anyways, I was stroking them - they were so soft, and bloody hell they started moving!!! I cudnt believe it, it was like id revived these mice, anyway we were going the zoo in london that day, and I didnt want to leave these mice, so, took them in a box, along with a syringe with, milk I think...!? And fed them every so offten, kept them warm... Put them back in the shed though, as I could not keep them really. I hope they made it past then! I never found any dead mice in the shed so should have been OK!
Theres two cats mum has adopted, they just turn up, and look skraggely and mum cant help but feed them, next thing they are down the vets being neutered and having a chip put in and sleeping on my bleeding bed!!!
Theres one at the moment that will sit on the kitchen window sill and look in at us... its all black but its fat, so well fed from somewhere, and it beats up our two cats, so... mum dosent want to encourage it in the house. The other one is a scruffy, skinny cat that appears every two days or so STARVING so mum feeds it, she wants to keep that one bless it, but it seems happy to be a stray that gets fed!!
I think thats all the random animals etc we've come across... damn thats a long post - sorry! Didnt realise there was that much to write!!
Uuummmm!!
