More ratty
Cheshire Zoo is currently preparing to release 48 water voles into the wild.

Well, not quite the wild; just the zoo grounds - to protect them from American mink, apparently.

Labels: water voles

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Clucking well
Having said which, I actually got an animal for Easter, Miss Matthews. She's a fluffy white hen who's retired from farming and moved off to live in a lovely country idyll just outside Nottingham. She was adopted through adoptahen.co.uk, who even provide webcams for you to keep an eye on what your chook is up to.

Labels: charity, chicken, chickens, eggs, hens

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Too many bunnies
There's something depressingly inevitable that, with the 'don't give dogs as Christmas presents' message finally making it through, people are now looking at rabbits and thinking "hmm... they've never said 'don't give rabbits as Easter gifts, so that's probably alright, then'.

So the Scottish SSPCA are now up to their eyes in unwanted rabbits, after people have realised "oh... they shit and eat all year round. That wasn't mentioned at the pet shop."

Presumably we're now going to face a summer of a idiots thinking "so if dogs die in hot cars, it must be okay to leave cats in warm jeeps, otherwise they'd have mentioned that as being a bad idea, too. And I think John must have just been unlucky with his cockatoo he left in a sweaty Transit van..."

Labels: animals, charity, rabbit, rabbits, welfare

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