Julie Davies

@HedgehogCabin Yes the one I've bought is 90% meat, it has some vegetables added to it and that's it! ☺️ I've been following you for a while so I made sure I did my research and followed your advice 🥰 wonderful video of the birds! I'll get some kitten kibble this week too then ☺️

Oh that's so kind of you.🥰If the food is for hedgehogs it's really important that meat is the first listed ingredient. It doesn't matter for the birds, they can process cereal, but hedgehogs can't. Yes, all the meat eating birds love kitten kibble!😁 It's great because this one food is safe to leave out for every garden visitor.

Yesterday there was a jackdaw on my bird table with a broken beak. He's lost the upper half. Obv makes eating hard and he's very thin. He came again today and on advice, I had put out chopped boiled egg and cheese for him and he's eating it. Unlike many people, I love corvids.

@HedgehogCabin Thank you for this advice. I had no idea it could also be given to birds. I've started keeping some complete food in for the hedgehogs. It's so good to know it can be used to help other animals in need

Thank you for the compassion you've shown towards this poor unfortunate little soul, Jenny, what a kind woman you are.🫂 A better food to provide would be complete cat or dog food. Either wet, or dry kitten food (the pieces tend to be nice and small). Complete pet food contains all the nutrients needed to keep an omnivore like this healthy, in a perfectly balanced ratio.🥰

@GreenJennyJones I love Corvids too! Such beautiful birds. I hope it does well now that it has fortunately found you

We tend to judge all animal behaviour by what we've learned about those we know - our pets. They are our only frame of reference. So when we see a hedgehog out in the day, even if we've read somewhere that this means they are seriously ill, we like to prove ourselves right - offer food, see if she eats. Yes! She's eating, so must be okay, just hungry, right? WRONG! Wild animals are completely different to domesticated animals. They have a survival imperative to eat, even when dying, because there's no telling when they may find food again. This has been bred out of our domesticated animals. So appetite is NOT an indicator of heath. You can only tell a hedgehog is ill because of their abnormal behaviour. As nocturnal animals, being out in the day is abnormal - no matter how 'healthy' they look. Once out in the day they are dying. It's an emergency. They need urgent treatment from a good rescue (never a vet). This example is from last year, but it's still happening now, today: Poor dear Henry was seen out in the day. He 'looked' normal, so was fed and left. On day 2 he came out again. By now he was walking a lot slower. The finder emailed me (see below - sadly I get an email like this almost daily). Emails and messages are for non-emergencies only. Like all rescues I have to triage my work, there simply aren't enough hours in some days, and messages often sit for 2 or 3 days before I have time to read them. A hog out in the day is an emergency. You need to phone and speak to a rescue, immediately, that same day. Luckily for Henry I skim read my messages, just in case of emergencies like this. Yet it was another 24 hours before the finder read my urgent reply. If you regularly follow a hedgehog rescue and know all this stuff inside out, it's easy to judge these finders. But they are good, kind, intelligent people, and were just doing what is advised on hundreds of wrong and misinformed websites. Including sites you'd think you could trust. As soon as I spoke to them and explained the urgency, they had no hesitation in driving the hour and a half round trip from Windsor to get the casualty here. This poor darling, the dear boy who would have been left to his own devices, is Henry. Henry is old (hogs can live as long as dogs, but most are lucky to see their 3rd birthday). The brown pigmentation on his nose and feet has completely worn away, leaving them pink. His eyes and ears are full of mites and ticks (the mites look like grains of sand in the photo). His thin, fragile chest is full of lungworm so breathing is difficult for poor Henry. His tummy is full of roundworm, so no matter how much he eats he can't get any nourishment from the food, so is slowly starving to death. At his age he should weigh well over a kilo. But Henry is so sick, this poor sweet old man weighs just 451g. You can see all of this because you're looking at a still, close up photo and I'm pointing it out to you. A quick glance of Henry out on the lawn would reveal nothing out of the ordinary. Sick hedgehogs don't always look sick. But the fact they are out in the day tells you that they are. Henry's prognosis was extremely poor. But after intensive treatment here he miraculously survived, and after 2 months recuperation he was released back home, to the wild. But there are many others who aren't so lucky. Please spread this information as far as you can, in the hopes we can save other little Henrys out there.

Gorgeous, aren't they? Just 12 days old and so tiny, so fragile. But now one is dead and the other is barely clinging onto life because someone let their cat stay out all night. Cats and adult hedgehogs ignore each other. Each is a match for the other, so they leave each other alone. But baby hedgehogs are helpless, and make high pitched little squeaks, like birds and mice, which cats find hard to resist. Cats aren't bad, they are lovely animals. But they are hunters, and they are just acting naturally, obeying their instincts. It's the humans who are at fault for allowing them to act on their instincts unsupervised, at night when there are vulnerable baby nocturnal animals around. Hedgehogs are born diurnal, so they can be awake and feed from mum in the day while she, being nocturnal, sleeps. Then at night, when she needs to go out and forage food for herself, she can do so knowing her precious babies will be safely and soundly asleep in their cosy nest. Until a cat on the prowl finds the unguarded defenceless babies. Dragged from their nest and 'played with', these babies suffered horrific wounds. When they were so cold and bloody that they stopped moving, the cat lost interest and left them there, exposed in the open grass. Still blind and deaf and not yet able to properly walk, the babies huddled together for warmth, while flies, sensing upcoming death, laid their eggs in all the still warm moist places - in the bloody wounds, ears, eyes, mouth and genitals. These poor little babies clung to each other for 2 days out in the open, getting colder and colder, and more and more fly blown. The first batch of fly eggs hatched into maggots and began eating them alive. Thankfully, a lovely man who was doing some tree work in the area spotted them. He felt terrible, thinking he had somehow disturbed their nest. He rang for advice and I agreed to stay open that night to take them in. They were frozen. Deeply in shock, the only movement came from the hundreds of maggots, writhing and teeming in every orifice. It took over 2 hours to clean them. The little boy's wounds were too severe to survive, and once warmed and snuggled with his sister he slipped away. The little girl miraculously survived the night and is still with us. She's terribly injured and extremely weak, but is stable for now. She needs feeding every 2 hours and my days of working round the clock are over, so the lovely Jo and Terry of @pricklelodge are now caring for this precious little survivor, and have called her Izzy. Our hedgehogs face so many perils, please don't let your cat be yet another one. Please keep your cats in at night. It will be safer for them, and safer for our precious wildlife.

@gareth_chapple @BevanCommission @NHSWalesAwards @PharmacySBU Not sure why this has only now popped up on my feed. Congratulations to all of you! 👏👏👏👏

Proud to have our MDT prescribing pharmacist project (Joshua Lau) recognised by both the @BevanCommission and @NHSWalesAwards Huge thanks to the Cardiology team at Morriston Hospital and @PharmacySBU -your backing turned this from an idea into a working service.#BevanExemplar

@jdibon My dog is called Arthur 💙🐾😂

Dog question - anyone have a pup (or pet) with a human name? In the park today, a met a black spaniel called Simon, & on the weekend, I heard a man calling for Colin the Labrador.

Safety shoes on a factory job site are not a political issue Hard hats on a construction job site are not a political issue Respirators on a mining job site are not a political issue Respirators on a healthcare job site are not a political issue Don't try to make it one

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@volcaholic1 6!! 😊 takes me right back there

Live Aid, 40 years ago today. How old do you feel? 🎸💃

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@PrognosticChats I am a healthcare professional and I wear an FFP2 minimum in all indoor environments and FFP3 in all high risk environments I.e. healthcare settings. Everyone else should be doing the same!

When many people state that the lockdowns caused the deepest depression they’ve ever experienced, just a reminder that many disabled people are in lockdown, five years later. Isolation is a form of torture. I want to live in a world where disabled people are wanted in society.

Hey health nuts: I’m disabled. Can’t tell? That’s because it’s not visible. Diet, supplements, cardio, hydration, sleep, didn’t matter. You’re not special, disability and time are intertwined. It’s when, not if, & that’s okay. Wearing a respirator protects yourself & others from-

We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to join our team at Morriston Hosptial in a role focused on clincal, education, training and mentoring. Please see advert for more information and get in touch if you have questions! 💊 healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Swansea…

Rhiannon Lewis was nominated by her team in Cefn Coed Pharmacy, for the enthusiasm & dedication she has shown when taking the lead for education & training for all the Undergraduates, Trainee and Foundation Pharmacists #excellenceinpharmacy @jvin715 @JayhamAmy

Anybody can change from being fit and healthy to sick and bedbound. Anybody can develop chronic health conditions or become disabled or terminally ill. Anybody can change from being employed to unemployed and unable to work. These things can happen to anybody. Anybody.

🥜Airlines and schools have banned nuts to protect passengers due to severe allergies (0.6% of people), but those who are Clinically Vulnerable to infections aren't given similar consideration. Why don't other health risks get priority in shared spaces? news.sky.com/story/i-was-ki…

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This 3yr anniversary that won't be in the news! When the UK government rolled out the "Living with Covid" policy it simply scrapped protections and shifted to personal responsibility. For most, it meant "back to normal." For Clinically Vulnerable people, life became harder. 1/🧵