Injured wildlife

This little dove was brought in today after being attacked by a cat.  Her feather’s are ruffled and who could blame her, she has two bad injuries, one on her back, the other under one of her wings.  They are sore and dirty open wounds so not done recently.  This poor bird has been suffering for some time.   We’ve cleaned her up and warmed her – she was icy cold when she came in so was close to the end.   Will she recover?   We don’t know, we have seen them as bad as this one get better.  Others give up, it’s all down to her will to live.

She’s on a heated pad which will give her a good chance of hanging on.  Also, she has ate a little bit of corn – so that is a hopeful sign.

We’ve also had an injured hedgehog brought in with bad facial injuries. It’s not known what happened to him.  He’s had a feed though and so can still manage to eat.  We’ve dressed his wounds, with great difficulty – he doesn’t want us to and persuading him not to roll up in a spiny ball is difficult.