Almost all of our admissions are human caused!
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2023
- Last week, at 6.30am one morning, a member of the public arrived at the centre carrying a cardboard box. This isn't unusual, however, when the contents of that box is an adult female badger, it immediately sets off alarm bells.
Found collapsed in the rescuer’s garden, the sow was in such a poor state, she was barely responsive😔.
Just two days after going through chemo, Simon was at the door, admitting the badger, and starting the long process of warming her hypothermic body.
Weighing just 3.5kg, a third of what she should be, we knew this was going to be an uphill battle.
With blood tests carried out, the battle got a lot harder, when we learnt the results showed a suspected ingestion of rat poison.
Rat and other “pest” pellets are extremely in-discriminate, they don't just affect the targeted species, they affect the other species living in that area, and the species that prey on the target species.
Sadly, despite both Simon and vet Marco's efforts, the sow's body was just not in any condition to fight, and we lost the battle to give her the second chance she was owed.
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Poison traps truly are one of the most evil things
Poison and glue traps alike. They do not distinguish between creatures and will as easily kill a rodent as a cat, dog or young child. There's just way too much grief caused by humans putting out such traps everywhere...
Humans are evil
I never understood why here in Italy such poisons are sold in any garden center and also very ignorant people can buy and use them without the necessary informations...
Poor thing. :( At least her last moments were gentle, and she got to have a last meal. Thank you for giving her that!
Someone in the comments said that you got the grant! That's amazing and well deserved! Congratulations.
Anyway this was a sad one and I hope you're all getting good emotional support and extra hugs. Thank you for all that you do. HUG
This is utterly heartbreaking... Rat poisons and the like should NEVER have been invented... Thank you so much to the kind member of the public, Simon and Marco for their valiant efforts 💜
On a happier note, I was absolutely over the moon to learn about the awarding of the YFS grant - can't wait to hear more! Onwards and upwards, guys! 💪
Sending my love to anyone who needs a hug 🤗xXx
Hi Simon thanks for another great video, hope you're doing well and thanks to everyone at WAF for doing a great job😊.
Omg Simon you really are a trooper. I hate to see such a beautiful animal lose it's life in such a cruel way. 😢
I’m a visitor engagement volunteer at Edinburgh Zoo and when talking about why animals are endangered it almost always includes human activity. Often the least endangered are animals where humans have realised the animals provide a valuable service to them! I’ll keep up with explaining how valuable nature is to us, along with other good zoos, volunteers, education teams etc. You are doing an amazing job, along with others like you, helping local wildlife in need. As I often say, we don’t survive in spite of nature, we survive because of it!
Please stop spreading the words "zoo" and "good" in one sentence. There is no such thing as a good zoo. The amounts of animals that are helped by zoos are marginal. Most animals you see in zoos are NOT endangered and they are put into prisons to show off what nice collection you have. That's a habit from the colonial times. Remember zoos kept people at some point, too. Also kids are not even learning a lot because the majority of visitors can't be bothered to study the little signs. There are studies that show that kids are even leaving the zoo dumber than before, because they learn that the behaviour in captivity is the normal behaviour of the animal. Nobody would argue that the people working there don't love the animals, however a prison is a prison. Anybody who keeps defending the concept of a zoo is delusional and looks away. Look into the eyes of those animals and then look into the ones that are in the wilderness. You see the amount of freedom they feel in their eyes! There are better concepts that have true respect and support for the animals. Please people, don't support zoos anymore!
@@xoxxw that’s your opinion. I base my opinion on what I see happening in BIAZA and EAZA zoos. For the zoo I am at, and the RZSS in general, we have been actively involved in beaver, wildcat, pine hoverfly, dark bordered beauty moths and pond mud snail releases in Scotland (and the UK for beavers). Further afield we are core funders for the giant armadillo project and a project looking at preventing road traffic accidents with giant ant eaters. That’s 6 out of 22 projects we are involved in, from core funding to genetic services! The modern zoo, like Edinburgh, Chester, London and many others have come a long way over the past 20 to 30 years. It’s worth having a look, and as many zoos are run by registered charities, just as Wildlife Aid is, finding information on their operations and funders. They all do incredible work for wildlife, animals and biodiversity and ecosystems in general! If you’re ever unsure, have a look, regardless!
@@simonmcglary There were many facts among my text, too. I am happy for all the releases and projects that actually help the wildlife. Some good things that are happening don't make up for the bad ones. There is alot of well justified criticism out there that deserves recognition, however the usual response is just talking about the feelgood facts like you do. Zoos are mainly for entertainment. You work in one, right? May I ask, do you have the numbers on how many percent of the zoo's income goes into these projects or sanctuaries or release programs you talk about?
@@xoxxw hopefully this helps. It gives some idea as to the cost of running a zoological society with 2 parks plus everything else. The four key projects that have the funding listed does not include wages of the top staff member of that project. Likewise the conservation and charitable activities don’t include wages.
Much of the key conservation work happens behind the scenes, much like the breeding programme for wildcats returning to the Cairngorms. By having these animals off show, with as little human contact as possible, increases there chances of survival. It’s why in the zoo community today the animals are part of breeding programmes, they aren’t taken from the wild, and no money changes hands when changing zoos.
You’re absolutely correct, entertainment is part of what zoos do, it’s one of the 4 pillars. The other 3 are conservation, education and research.
One other thing that doesn’t come through is that it isn’t just about sending money to projects. Our vets have been sent out to Free the Bears to assist and train in latest care for bears, or remote islands in the south Atlantic for health checks on wild penguins. Sometimes keepers get sent out to assist with counts or researching behaviours in the wild.
Not all zoos are good, there are many atrocious zoos that should be closed immediately! Zoos that have no intention even coming up to standard for accreditation for the regional association, such as BIAZA or EAZA. Even those that do will be striving to get better!
You can’t always get an animal back to the wild. As the Wildlife Aid website eludes to, if an animal was born in the wild, the aim is to get it back to the wild. If you can’t, euthanasia has to be an option, sometimes the only option.
An extremely high percentage of zoo animals don’t know what “the wild” is and can trace their lineage to the zoos of old! Zoos, generally, are changing. When Dame Jane Goodall tells you your chimpanzee facility is one of the best in the world, and preferable over the wild at the moment, you’ve got something right. As we study animal behaviours and cognition we realise it’s about constant improvement and feeds a better understanding of the wild.
It’s been found that people are more likely to help save what they can see. If an animal is shown well and enthusiastic staff can fire up that imagination in the visitor things can change, starting right outside our doors! Edinburgh has an award winning education department, and that’s from education professionals!
Not all zoos are good, but not all zoos are bad! Let’s call them animal facilities that do a range of activities for the natural world! Even among the best ones, they all play different roles working with a range of species, from tiny snails to bison, from hover flies to polar bears and everything in between! It all counts!
www.rzss.org.uk/media/9892/rzss-annual-financial-statements-for-the-year-ended-31-december-2022-typesigned.pdf
It's so heartbreaking to loose a rescued animal after it was found alive, looking at her little face on the vets table, it is so so sad you couldn't save her but you do Amazing work rescuing wild, I hope you don't have any more tragic cases of rat poisoning, the people that use this are so irresponsible!
Well done for trying Simon, it's tragic what we do to our wildlife 😞
I find the word 'we' slightly offensive.
I certainly don't put any wildlife in danger by my actions.
I agree with the sentiment though.
The people responsible for deliberately harming animals should be made accountable by the law😢
I’m so very sorry about the loss of the badger from poison. What an awful way for her to die! Poor girl! Thank you for doing your best to save her and making her as comfortable as you could before she passed, Simon and Marco. You guys are incredible ❤!
As unpleasant as it is to see, I appreciate posting negative outcomes as reality checks.
Thank you, Simon, for trying to help her! 🤗
Some Humans are pure wicked evil . That poor little badger 😥
So very sorry Simon, thank you for letting her know kindness & love. Poison is never the safe answer to anything, good old human race strikes again.😢
So sad . It has to be hard on everyone when they pass. Simon prayers are with you.
I live in Germany, and over the years i worked on/Off in a shelter. And it's Just heartbreaking what Humans are capable of. Not Just adults.
Trough an Work accident i can't really Help anymore, but i still have some contacts.
Now, 3 years ago i took two Kittens in after the dead of my old Lady. I didn't want to first, but they where so miserable. One of them was super anxious and No one wanted him, because of that. He was there for month's, growing older and therefore slimmen His Chanced more and more. So i adopted him and also a little black Baby which was very sick and needed a quiet Home.
They came from terrible conditions. A human who was mentally unstable Had a bathroom full of Cats. Everyone did know, but Nobody did anything to either Help the human or the animals. Only when the human died they HAD to do Something ...
I know there are good Humans Out there, but it's Just so Frustrating. It never ends.
Her poor sad eyes in the final shot, dear me.
So very sad. Rat poison seems to be blatantly put on the ground in unknown areas. Wouldn't surprise me if cats and dogs eat this and suffer. There are humans that care about the wildlife, domestic animals and the environment, but sadly many people that really don't care about their actions and its ricochet effect. It's awful. Such a tragic loss, and thank you so much for trying to save her 😢
Absolutely tragic. All lives matter whether man or beast.
Heartbreaking. Animals are just trying to survive in the environment that they are forced to live in.
Dear Simon you are a wonderful man I only found your show a couple of months ago,and I watch it all the time I’m so sorry to hear you are ill.❤️❤️🇦🇺
Thank you for looking after all the wildlife 🦊🦊🦝🦝🐭🐭🐰🐰🦔🦔🦢🦢🦆🦆
yes! 🐍🐍
Thank you for all you do. 💚💚💚💚.
May God bless you & yours, Simon. Gratitude for all you do.
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Thank you for helping her regardless!!!
Simon you are a wonderful human being!
Thanks so much for trying. Sadly nobody can win them all. Much love.
nevertheless this live is lost, she was able to fall asleep in a safe, warm place. sometimes that has to be enough. thanks.
"this LIFE is lost."
LIVE is a verb.
LIFE is a noun.
@@AndrewBlacker-wr2ve 🤦🙄
@@AndrewBlacker-wr2veMultiple grammar mistakes in your comment criticising someone else's grammar.
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@@AndrewBlacker-wr2ve some times auto correct takes over. Proof reading is a chore. I've posted comments with mistakes often
@@oddmammal Not a one.
But, tell me.
RIP beautiful girl
Thank you for trying to save this beautiful badger and for everything you do. Humans have a lot to answer for and many just don't seem to care what they are doing to the wildlife
so very important that people see this & develop visceral understanding of what the horrible poison does. Out-of-sight, out-of-mind is way too powerful. At least she was warm and as comfortable as possible in your care.
I would never, ever put out poison. Ever.
same. I don't understand people who do.
Heartbreaking. Thanks for trying Simon. ❤
I got kicked off the Gardener's World forum for saying that the correct solution to a rat problem was a rifle, because you can identify the species and choose whether to shoot but you can't choose what gets caught by a poison bait, a glue trap, a snap trap or any of the other things people were advocating using ... or tortured to death by a sociopathic cat, which was another thing people were advocating using. I've lost a lot of young songbirds to cats, but never seen them bother with rats. Rats fight back. If you're going to kill a rat, look it in the eye at 6x magnification and do it yourself, rather than killing a dozen random animals with poison.
😢 oh dear poor girl, may she rest in peace, 🙏 thanks for the video 🖤
Thanks Wildlife Aid team 👍
RIP - Beautiful Badger.... 💔 😢
I did not think she would make it after initially seeing her condition. I never seen one so underweight, she couldn't have eaten for weeks. Very sad and even so you did the best you could. You guys are heroes
Poison is the HIDEOUS side of man's cleverness. Should NEVER have even been thought of.
I’m so sorry. Humans are sometimes horrible, forgetting we are just mammals too. We’ve a squashed hedgehog on the white line of the road which makes me think someone deliberately hit it. We are blessed with a big hog population, yet the people who save their papers for our local hedgehog hospital put down slug pellets and refused to pick them up when I challenged them because it was too much effort 😢
Poor badge!!!! I wish people didn't try to poison rats. All those animals thinking they're getting a free meal and instead they get a torturous death.
Praying for your healing Simon
God loves you and has given you a heart for the other precious creatures He loves too
If England does not wake up soon and stand up to protect and save England's Wildlife and Greenbelt England will lose its Wildlife Same goes for the rest of GBUK Thankyou Wildlife Aid for Caring
Unfortunately you experience something like this more often i guess.....trying to save an animal in vain. 😢
It is always very sad to lose an animal that needs help, but at least you tried!
Countless animals have been saved from a horrible death thanks to you Simon, and your team. I want to thank you again for that! 🙏🙏🙏
So sorry for your loss. Thank you for loving her at the end. She was warm and loved.
Thank you for everything you do
well thanks for the effort!!!
The results of human intolerance of both animals and each other is always devestating, without exception. It's sad that this poor animal had to suffer and pass, all because humans see other living creatures as pests to be killed. I can only hope that in her last moments, she understood that she was being helped and cared for.
Poisoning any creature is totally cruel. At least the badger knew it was being help . So sad 😢.
❤what a horrible thing to go through. Bless little one 🤍
This is so heartbreaking! I hate it when people are putting out poison! If you have rats, you have to close off their entrances and make sure they are not attracted by any food.
This is so horrible 😢😢. Poor baby girl 😢.
i recently lost one of my colony cats to rat poison. she was too far gone when i found her.
A few years ago, on track by a village, whilst out walking, we found a badger that had been shot in the rear. My friend ran to get help. I stayed, trying to give the sweetheart a bit of water on a leaf. Simultaneously aware that my presence may have caused the badger some anxiety. Why trust me a human?
Humans had done this. But on another level the darling didn’t die alone. Murdered.
We have no right. We are a species that doesn’t seem to contribute anything positive to this amazing planet. We are so arrogant. Think we are more civilised, sophisticated. Take out technology away. We are still living in caves, eating, wearing, exploiting other species and the planet. As well as each other.
I’m so very thankful there are members of my own species who do care and go above and beyond to show love and compassion. Thank you ❤
I hate cruelty to animals some people are such scummy heartless humans 👊😡 thankyou for trying to save this badger ❤️
Poor badger.😢
How are you doing, Simon?
I feel like that's not the only trouble humans cause. Luckily many humans also do good. Thank you for being part of the solution.
Unfortunately, the good things tend to be undoing all the bad things humans do...
Thank you for everything you do or the animals.💗💗💗💗.
R.I.P. little badger
This is so sad .😥🦡❤
Triste... Très triste.
Sad... Very sad. 😢
That poor beautiful girl. Thank you for trying to save her.
Poor baby girl 😢 what a horrid way to die 😢 thank you for your efforts 😢 at least she was with 'good' people at the end 😢 God bless her 😢 (and God bless you Simon) ♡
Aww poor baby..
I’ve been eager for a video…unfortunately not this kind. Sending prayers to Simon!
GOD KEEP BLESSING YOU ALL. So, so sad.
Awww bless.
Thank you for trying to save her.
Been watching the channel for a couple of years and only just realised you're the same people who did that series in the late 1990s when I was flicking through the TV channels and saw Simon with his long hair.
Didn't recognise him! 🤣
Poor little creature. Another fatality caused by thoughtless, selfish humans.
That's so sad bless her. RIP little soul .
One of the hedgehogs I feed was poisoned found her in my garden on her back and the vets had to put her too sleep because of rat poison from next door. I was so upset cause she’d been in my hog house through the Winter. Thanks for trying Simon x
That's a wildlife crime - report them to police.
So sad, thanks to you.
Hi Simon it is so devastating to here what happened to how can people be so evil and unkind love love badgers I have four badgers that come into my garden and I feel very privileged to have such beautiful animals like badgers you all do such a wonderful job at the rescue looking after the wild animals you are all worth your wait in gold 😊
so sad !! poor badger girl !! Thanks you for trying to help her !! 😭🙏🦡🐾🌈
Heartbreaking.
So sad😢. Hope she didn't have babies.
One of my cats got very sick from rat poison. Not from digesting it, but from rolling in it (it was probably scattered in the grass near the ditch) and washing herself.
That is so sad,people need to use humane treatment for pest removal, though there are no pests to me. Even rats have a soul. And we should be kinder to all creatures. Thank you Simon for trying to save the lady badger
I hope that you are ok Simon /: take good care o you.
poor girl. I rescue pigeon in France and they are a lot of the with legs/fingers problems because of strings thrown in the street by humans.
So sad, some humans just don't think before they do. At least she was with you for her last moments, instead of alone :(
Simon, you are an angel. Thanks for trying for this poor soul. Bless you and her.
Саймон, ты большой молодец! Твоя работа очень важна!
thank you for trying, God bless the animals
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thank you for doing what you do. you guys are a huge part of why i am now a pre-veterinary student in college
It's so sad 😢😢😢
Heartbreaking... Poor soul... Thank you guys for tending to her.
Of all the animals I see on the road side it is the badgers I feel most strongly about. What a shame! Thanks for all your dedicated work to look after the vulnerable.
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That's terrible. I think one of the things you could do is to spread awareness on how to get rid of rats without use of this dreadful rat poison. I know someone who had his house infested with rats. The house was close to the woods. That rats were actually having galleries between the walls. They used rat poison and the rats would die at times within the walls which was really devastating with all that rotting flesh and with little children living right there. Plus there were a lot of deer, wild boar and other animals living in the woods!
Thank you for telling the world about the things like this that are happening. Good luck Somon.
luv u save him
""saved."
@@AndrewBlacker-wr2veYou made another error here. Whoopsie!
@@oddmammal Nope.
But I'm sure you can't list any.
How is Simon doing?
So sad
Heartbreaking to see. I don't like rat poisons for how they work on rats to begin with, even though I can understand, that having a rat infestation is a problem.
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Who in the right mind would heart and in the end kill this Angel this precious baby that did not heart anyone!! Why did they do that they just need some food water and love even because this is a wild animal let it pass in front of you let it live too don't heart her!! Very Sad about it and I hope you are well Simon keep up the good fight we love you guys!!😥😥
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Well damn.
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I do wonder. Does rat poison really keep the rats numbers down?
Honestly whether it does or not shouldn't matter. Poisons mess with the ecosystem in a variety of ways. If there are too many of a specific species we must find ways to deal with that species more effectively.
Not really…it is cruel and orobabky kills as many other animals as it does rats. Including pets.
Not really. On our farm we had a farm dog and cat population to keep the rodents down. We barely ever had to put our poison to keep rodents from getting into food supplies and such. If there's a rodent plague, the cause tends to be an unbalanced ecosystem. That's also why it's so idiotic when you see people kill wolves, foxes, bats and even spiders when it are exactly those who are an essential part of a healthy ecosystem.
No, it fails.
@@MayaPosch I totally agree. If there is truly a problem with some animal, there are many other ways to take care of it. Even endangered animals that pose some sort of risk can sometimes be relocated. Cats are good at keeping populations down, even if some cats aren't exactly humane killers, the population can also scare certain animals away. Outside cats in general are also a sensitive topic since there is risk involved to the cat and other species.
Yeah I figured once it was poison that she wasn't going to make it. Undoubtedly did severe internal organ damage (just guessing).