Here's the story, one morning this week, I went out to go to work and there was an injured badger dragging itself up our drive. It looked quite young, and like it probably had a broken rear leg, probably been hit by a car.
So we phoned the Staffordshire wildlife trust, whose emblem is a badger, (Staffordshire, tick, wildlife, tick, badgers, tick) but they said they don't really do rescue work, it's not their kinda thing. They suggested we try the rspca.
I had to go to work and left the mother in law to deal with it.
She phoned the rspca who said they would only come if someone monitored it., explaining that they wouldn't want a wasted journey if it moved on. My mother in law is in her 70's, has had two strokes, suffers heart failure, and requires oxygen at regular intervals, so it wasn't really on for her to stand outside monitoring the poor thing, for an unspecified period of time.
So that was the end to a frustrating quest to get some help for the injured animal, even if it was just getting someone to put it out its misery. It dragged itself off somewhere, we couldn't find it again.
Is there any other animal welfare group who might have been able to help, for future reference?
Have to say I'm hugely disappointed with the two who we did contact (both of whom use badgers as their emblem )
So we phoned the Staffordshire wildlife trust, whose emblem is a badger, (Staffordshire, tick, wildlife, tick, badgers, tick) but they said they don't really do rescue work, it's not their kinda thing. They suggested we try the rspca.
I had to go to work and left the mother in law to deal with it.
She phoned the rspca who said they would only come if someone monitored it., explaining that they wouldn't want a wasted journey if it moved on. My mother in law is in her 70's, has had two strokes, suffers heart failure, and requires oxygen at regular intervals, so it wasn't really on for her to stand outside monitoring the poor thing, for an unspecified period of time.
So that was the end to a frustrating quest to get some help for the injured animal, even if it was just getting someone to put it out its misery. It dragged itself off somewhere, we couldn't find it again.
Is there any other animal welfare group who might have been able to help, for future reference?
Have to say I'm hugely disappointed with the two who we did contact (both of whom use badgers as their emblem )
