Success story

This comes from Folly Wildlife Centre, an animal rescue centre in Kent.

A woman noticed an injured badger in her garden. She was used to badgers snuffling about at dusk, looking for food, but this one was clearly not well and seemed to have something caught in her coat. When she got a good look at it, she saw that the badger seemed to be entangled in some sort of plastic packaging. Fortunately, Folly were within reach and came out to help.

Poor badger. She was very badly hurt. You know those tops that are used for holding six packs of drinks together? She'd got caught in one of those. She couldn't walk normally, because her paw was trapped, and she was very badly cut and scraped.

If you try to help an injured human, they generally know that you're trying to help. Animals don't, and an animals that's already in pain is frightened enough to begin with. It took a lot of attempts, great patience, and and some irresistible food, but finally they secured her and got her back to animal hospital. When they saw the extent of her injuries, they knew she couldn't have survived much longer outside.

That was at the beginning of this month. She recovered so well that she's just been released back into the wild.

Get the message out. Rubbish kills and maims. And thank God for Folly!