This myspace page is created to raise the profile of a wonderful wildlife hospital charity. There will be updates on new cases in the hospital and information about events and open days to raise money for the hospital. THANK YOU!
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The London Wildlife Hospital is one of the largest facilities of its kind in the UK, caring for around 4000 sick, injured or orphaned wild animals each year. Our operational area extends across the Greater London region and into the home counties, but animals in need have come from as far away as Devon and our advice is frequently sought by rehabilitators and veterinarians from all around the world.
Our ‘patients’ can range in size from baby mice and nestling wrens up to mature swans and deer. The hospital has also successfully treated many injured amphibians and reptiles injured in the wild, including frogs, toads and slow worms.
Within our local area we operate a rescue service which is manned by staff and volunteers. Our principal vehicles are equipped with a full range of medical and rescue equipment and we maintain a ready-to-run field hospital capability in case of major incidents such as oil spills or outbreaks of avian botulism. Our core rescue team is complemented by several volunteers who are regularly called out to bring injured wild animals into the hospital. We will always dispatch teams to assist with potentially dangerous animals such as deer, badger, fox, swan and heron, 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
The staff team are backed up by over 100 volunteers who commit to one or more regular shifts each week. Their duties involve the bulk of the cleaning and feeding.
Internally, the hospital comprises a large mammal ward (fox and badger), a bird ward (birds and waterfowl), a small animal ward with isolation units (for hedgehogs, squirrels and some birds) and a large animal intensive care unit for surgical, poison or trauma cases with high dependency requirements. There is a treatment and triage room with facilities to treat three majors simultaneously and a sterile room/x-ray unit, currently under construction at September 2005.
The outside area has a large pond enclosure and a variety of multi-purpose aviaries and pens as well as two specialist deer sheds. At any one time during peak season, over 200 animals will reside in this area alone, with at least the same number again in our wards indoors. As an example of the scale of our daily work, you may be interested to know that in 2004, we prepared in excess of 100,000 meals for the animals in our care and used in excess of 360 bales of hay for outdoor bedding!!
The hospital and its rescue service are funded entirely by public kindness. We are ineligible for Lottery funding, government grants or support from most major trusts. We receive very little corporate support and, increasingly, are being required to pay full price for all of our services and utilities.
