TACT needs your support..

We have alot of creatures living with us at the moment that need your help by sponsoring them.

Our forum ( http://tactwildlife.proboards.com ) has a section dedicated to the sponsoring creatures. We are in the process of adding as many of the creatures there under their specific groups so please drop by and have a look.

Thanks to one of our volunters, Jenni, for taking on the task of updating the forum...

We have creatures from £5 (for those with alittle pocket money and who would like to help) up to the larger birds and mammals at £40 with a full range of species in between..

Your sponsorship will last for 1 yerar and each sponsor will get a certificate about their particular creature which will have the individuals picture, and a Membership card which allows you to come and visit your creature and also a plaque in the garden showing your sponsorship support.

We must stres that it costs alot more thn the sponsorship fe to take care of each creature for that year so we do try to get multiple sponsors foreach creature if posible. However, as we aim to release as many creatures as possible, your sponsorship fee will also be contributing to this.

If you are sponsoring one of our domestic creatures, unless otherwise stated, we do attempt to rehome as many of these as possible. If your sponsored creature is offered a new caring home we will ofcourse never turn it down. We will transfer your sponsorship onto a different animal after constulting with yourself.

Sponsoring creatures here is a very vital part of raising funds to feed and take care of these creatures each year and without the public support we get in Northern Ireland, we could not continue the work.

Please check out the site today and if there is something you are interested in please do not hesitate to contact us at any time.

Also bare in mind it is in the process of being updated so if there is something that we have that is not yet posted, please be patient. We will get them up as soon as we can :)

Thankyou..

Sad end for a beautiful swan

On Sunday we had a swan brought to us by the police, from Antrim.

It appeared to have a badlt broken leg. We do not do any veterinary treatment involving anaesthetics on the first day or 2 after coming in as we have found to our sadness that the stress the bird is already under can cause it to not wake up. So the vet administered the usual pain meds etc and it came back to us for a 2 day rest. ON Wednesday morning it went to the vet to get an xray.

The vets were hopeful that the leg could be splinted or pinned in necessary.

After taking the xray the vets was shocked by the image. His knee was completley dislocated, all the nerves and ligoments in there where torn and irrepairable and it also looks like its been that way for some time. It certainely wasn't a recent injury.

sadly a swan could never survive with only one leg. They are too heavy and the legs are set so far back that their balance would be completley wrecked so we had no choice but to say goodbye to him.

What is really sad is that swans will pair for life and he was an adult male in gorgeous breeding conditons so there probably is a female somewhere in the area that is now alone.

Here is the xray they took. Our vets were very good in letting us have borrow the xray to show what happened. You can clearly see where the two bones are seperated. Very sad outcome but we can't save them all..