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What Does It Cost To Care?
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To give life saving first aid treatment to one hedgehog
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£ 9.20
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To x-ray a hedgehog’s fractured leg
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£ 17.80
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To administer a course of antibiotics to one hedgehog
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£ 12.60
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To suture a mallard duck’s skin wounds
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£ 5.20
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To provide essential dental treatment for a hedgehog
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£ 41.20
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To bandage a fox’s badly injured / infected leg
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£ 9.80
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To provide essential pre-release dental treatment for a badger
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£ 193.00
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To feed a hedgehog during an average 12 week stay
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£ 19.60
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To wash and disinfect one hedgehog’s food bowl & bedding
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£ 0.94 each day
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To give one small garden bird a life saving injection
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£ 0.18
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To surgically repair a tawny owl’s fractured wing
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£ 34.60
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To bandage a deer’s fractured leg
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£ 11.90
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To buy a feeding bottle to feed orphaned mammals
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£ 6.70
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To provide life saving laboratory diagnostic test results
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£ 17.00
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To give one Muntjac deer emergency life saving treatment on admittance to the Hospital
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£ 33.60
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To hand rear one baby hedgehog
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£ 56.00
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To provide one essential feed via a tube for a poorly swan
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£ 4.25
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To buy a complete set of equipment to enable the safe rescue of injured large mammals
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£187.00
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To give a fallow deer emergency with life saving treatment on admittance to the Hospital
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£ 98.50
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To keep one hedgehog in the Hospital for the whole winter - to prevent it from hibernating (which could be dangerous if hedgehogs are underweight or injured)
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£ 111.50
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To provide a course of treatment for one fox with mange
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£ 24.80
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To feed one baby bird for one day
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£ 7.25
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To carry out an orthopaedic operation on a muntjac deer with a fractured leg
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£ 422.00
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To buy a specialist bed for unconscious and seriously ill patients
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£ 25.00
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To x-ray a badger, to check the extent of fractured bones
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£ 54.00
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In any one year we are likely to see 3,000 hedgehogs, 350 deer, 100 badgers, 250 foxes and many thousands of birds and other creatures.
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