Another Example Of A 'Remoter Area' Transport...

Anglesey, in North Wales, is a difficult area for wildlife rescue, in general. There are very few Wildlife Rescues and only one (with wildlife rescue being unregulated by the english & welsh governments) has proven high standards of care.

As a consequence, we have been working on a 'wildlife care structure' in the area, within which framework wildlife casualties & orphans are taken in by Vet Practices, treated and stabilised, and then we transport them on to the nearest best Wildlife Rescue that will take them.

For some transports, this requires a relay of 2 Drivers, meeting half way and swapping the animals over, to get them to the nearest Rescue. Immense care is taken to ensure as calm a transport as possible in these circumstances.

On this occasion... Less than an hour before a normal relay transport of one gull chick and we got calls for the transport of not just one but two more wild youngsters, needing to get to the same rescue... All 3 were at different Vet Practices, being checked over - all were fine and uninjured, they just needed to be raised and released - so our kind Driver, Angharad drove & picked up from one vet after another, until finally she was on the road, heading to meet Liam (the 2nd Driver in the relay) who was meeting her half way to the Rescue that was taking the animals in.

Liam met Angharad half way and took on the further transport of these wild beauties. He then carefully passed on the background info, from the Vet Practices, on each of the wild orphans, to the Rescue, for their ongoing care.

*The animals were all transported in separate transport containers, in darkness and silence, to be kept calm during transport. As soon as each was picked up from a Vet Practice, their container was secured onto a seat, with a big towel over the top (this was to ensure a dark, snoozy atmosphere for each animal AND to play a part in taking extra 'cross contamination' precautions). They were swapped over, vehicle to vehicle, in as quiet a place as possible, without being taken out of the containers or handled/interfered with at all. [See our Drivers Guidance for a full overview of the welfare conditions we provide, as a minimum, during each transport.]

*Stock image of the baby rabbit [We don’t take photos during a transport for welfare reasons and we don’t always get photos from Rescues after dropping off, so in these cases we use stock images or cartoons for our posts.]