Treating wildlife

Re: Treating wildlife

Lisa Goodship — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:35:35 GMT

I know you've had lots of requests so understand if you don't have time, but I would greatly appreciate if you had any info for clients and staff about treatment for sick injured wildlife' as we always seem to be at a loss what to really do and don't really have any wildlife organisations near us to help. I feel it's an area we sometimes neglect alittle. Thanks for your time and hard work. lisa_goodship@hotmail.com[quote user="Emma Kerry"]

Thats no trouble, I have a number of other sheets as I put together a wildlife folder for work and deal with all our wildlife cases and rehab. I will look at putting them all in an email for you!

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Re: Treating wildlife

Emma.Langton — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:59:58 GMT

Hi Emma,

Is there any chance you could forward me a copy of the consent form, I'm trying to put one together for my practice

My email is: ejlangton@hotmail.co.uk

Many thanks

Emma

Re: Treating wildlife

Emma Purnell — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:28:16 GMT

I have sent them over

It is so difficult and is a practice by practice basis.

As for squirrels - they can be released under license so it is always worth seeing if you can get anyone who is willing to cope with all the paperwork to do that - gives you more options then as really, the amount of squirrels we would be treating and releasing would make no difference in a large proportion of the country - as Natural England readily admitted to me on the phone!

Re: Treating wildlife

NuttyNu — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:59:37 GMT

Can I please have one too? I have PM''d you my address to send them to.

I am forever in arguements with our practice about treating whildlife.. if it has spikes then it is cute and worth treating, if it has feathers then it is a different story!

Squirrels and such like get PTS straight away as countryside act prevents release as it has been taken into captivity.

Thanks!

Re: Treating wildlife

Emma Purnell — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:00:52 GMT

Of course you can - I only hope they don't disappoint and come of use to you!

Re: Treating wildlife

nin86 — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:24:01 GMT

Hulloo, could i also please request a copy, everyone seems to be very impressed with them and they sound mighty useful! Thanks in advance!

Kat_madatmosphere@hotmail.com

Re: Treating wildlife

A Little TLC — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:48:36 GMT

Blush blush!!!

Re: Treating wildlife

Emma Purnell — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:03:44 GMT

Apologies Eveleen - sending now!

TLC is by far better than I am - she is the one I go to for all my help and advice!

Re: Treating wildlife

Cloudy Weather — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:48:32 GMT

hehe I knew you would be on this thread! You and Emma are great! thanks for both your help :) so lovely to see so many people who love and respect widllife!!!Yay!

Re: Treating wildlife

A Little TLC — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:37:25 GMT

So glad to see this has resurfaced :)

Re: Treating wildlife

eveleen — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:46:45 GMT

eveleen_laura@hotmail.co.uk Can I have a copy pretty please :)

Re: Treating wildlife

Emma Purnell — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:40:03 GMT

I am glad they have been of some use to you! It is lovely when you can inspire others to take more notice and care than they maybe did previously - it can be really disheartening to want to care for these animals when to others they can be seen as 'just more hassle' and are often easier to just put down.

Keep saving these little lives!

Re: Treating wildlife

Cloudy Weather — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:52:54 GMT

The law one is also very useful. You have described it as I had interpreted it so that it good. I wasn't sure whether I quite had it right, it is very difficult to know as the law is not black and white but this helps to give a clear interpretation of the law and indicates vets do have a legal obligation. Glad to see our triage guidelines for wildlife are pretty much the same;)

Re: Treating wildlife

Cloudy Weather — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:36:32 GMT

Absolutely fantastic thank you Emma!Will be of great use to add to my wildlife folder!Got mostly corvid, garden birds, pigeon and hedgehofgsheets at the moment that I have written myself but not much at all on birds of prey so this is fantastic!:) Came at a good time to as people at my work are really starting to show an interest in wildlife now which is so lovely to see, really feel I am getting somewhere!!

Re: Treating wildlife

Emma Purnell — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:09:51 GMT

Will do it now

Hope people aren't disappointed when they see these, they are just my own work, nothing special!

Re: Treating wildlife

meep_ kitten — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:48:41 GMT

Hi Emma, me too please!! oconnoan@tcd.ie

thanks a mil :-) xx

Re: Treating wildlife

Emma Purnell — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:50:28 GMT

PM me your email and I will send all I have over - hope its not too much!

It is busy, rewarding but hard on days and the staff are amazing, have made me feel so welcome. Just miss my babies!

Re: Treating wildlife

Cloudy Weather — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:06:20 GMT

Thanks Emma that is great! Can I PM you my email?

Aww I bet that is very rewarding, extremely busy too I imagine!! ?

Re: Treating wildlife

Emma Purnell — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:01:15 GMT

Just spotted this - apologies all! I will rummage through my system and email all my info to anyone who wanted it still, I did do a leaflet on law so hopefully will be of some use!

As for me, I am now a locum, currently at the PDSA PetAid Hospital in Birmingham - and loving it for anyone interested Had to stop my wildlife for a period with locuming though and, have to admit, am seriously missing it...

Re: Treating wildlife

Cloudy Weather — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:46:25 GMT

Thanks for that Emma! Sadly I am not yet qualified and want to complete my qualification before I move on to anything. Its a shame this job role sounds amazing, completed a wildlife first aid certificate at vale and it was fantastic!Thanks though was very kind of you to post it, its good to know there are ones out there, any they you come across would be very interesting to hear about!

Re: Treating wildlife

emmadilemma — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:30:32 GMT

Check out Vale wildlife hospitals website Olive tree...they have a couple of paid jobs going at the minute

Re: Treating wildlife

Cloudy Weather — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:49:11 GMT

I have not come across this thread but I think thats because it was being written before I had joined! Emma I would be interested to hear if you ever managed to find a job at a wildlife hospital or rehabilitation centre as I too wish to follow this route but I am finsing it incredibly diffcult to find paid employment in this area of work.

It would also be great to recieve the leaflets if possible?Could I PM you?

I have recently put together a widlife folder at my work including widllfie feeding regime, first aid treatment and identification aids. I have done alot of work in widllife rehabilitation but still find it very tricky to interpret the law. As far as I can tell it is an offence to kill a wild animal under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, yet once an establishment takes a wild animal in for treatment it is covered by a different section of law as the animal is now under that establishments ownership. It then states I think in the Protection of Animals Act that it is not an offence to kill an animal if it is done humanley. I find it such a grey area. It would be interesting to see a case study on it but I suppose its not an area of law which has really been tried and tested. I would assume that it would be an obligation for a vets to treat wildlife for free and euthanasia would only be acceptable if the injury or disease (as stated in the wildlife and countryside act) was not treatable. I know in the wildlife and countryside act it is an offence to release an animal in such a way to cause it suffering and therefore the animal would have to be treated and released in an area that is suitable and not doing so would be an offence. Its very difficult I've heard the RSPCA are a struggle to gets funds from especially in case of birds and are very reluctant to go out and rescue wildlife

If anyone knows more about the law side of things it would be great to hear, I feel it should be something vets and nurses should be learning in far more detail.

Re: Treating wildlife

Steph Smith BSc(hons) RVN — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:47:37 GMT

I know this is about a year too late(!) but do you still have some info you could email out to me please...?

stephaniesmithvn@gmail.com

Re: Treating wildlife

Emma Purnell — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:22:59 GMT

Me too! Lots of sleepless nights over her but she is so happy and settled it was worth it.

Re: Treating wildlife

A Little TLC — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:17:42 GMT

thank you hun, so glad you managed to get the license for the lil girl too.