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This is Lilly - she's a kitten stray found in a cemetery in Hartlepool - Oct 09 -only 4 - 6 weeks old. She's already been re-homed by Lucy in Billingham. More pics soon on our diary page.
And this is 'Malone'- a wild baby rabbit discovered on his own on the moors at only 6-10 days old! This is him at about 4 weeks, doing fine at ClawsnPaws. This site dedicated to Sammy (1997 - 2006)
A NOTE ABOUT DOGS [NB: We CANNOT keep more than two dogs on our premises at any time due to Planning Restrictions. Except for immediate emergency care as a result of injury dogs are immediately re-sent to local Dog Kennels and Sanctuaries once any emergency treatment has been dealt with. We are NOT a Kennels or Cattery - we are an ANIMAL RESCUE CENTRE & SANCTUARY dealing primarily with rescuing birds or animals in immediate distress - ALL Wild or Domestic Birds and Animals on our premises have a history of either injury, neglect or abuse - many of whom may not be able to be re-homed but we give them as best quality of life as we can. NON-DESTROY POLICY Only in very exceptional cases, where it is clear it is the final choice, or if a bird or animal is found to be in severe pain and has no possibility of prolonging a pain free life of improved quality, is any injured,neglected or abused bird or animal in our care humanely destroyed. NEW MEMBERS WELCOME IF YOU WISH TO GET INVOLVED: If YOU would like to know more about becoming a ClawsnPaws member and volunteer supporter or helper, send an email to:- erikanugent@clawsnpawsarc.com or click 'register with us' on the Title Bar at the top of this page and fill in and submit your details. You can also download a Membership Application Form by clicking on Membership Application Form at the top of this page. We have volunteer supporter group meetings every month and for more information simply send an email to the above address. We look forward to meeting and working with you. | CLAWS'n'PAWS BIRD & ANIMAL RESCUE CENTRE
Erika Nugent - Claws n Paws Manager with Bobby the Cockerill Based in Hartlepool. Any resident of Hartlepool's Urban and Rural Areas can become a member and volunteer helper.There are many small animals such as chickens, ducks, wild and domestic birds, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters etc. in our care, and we have a team of volunteers on call to come and help rescue any animal in distress. Members of our volunteers supporters group are free to visit [by appointment] and see all of the birds and animals and help care and look after them. We have regular meetings and events to which NEW members are welcome to attend and support - these include Fund Raising Events. Telephone one of the numbers above to find out how you can join and help. ALL DONATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC TO CLAWSnPAWS GO 100% DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE COSTS OF LOOKING AFTER THE BIRDS & ANIMALS IN OUR CARE. Can you help? As a completely voluntary, non profit making organisation we are always looking for help with our work. Any assistance that we get is gratefully received. We have a number of friends and HART Residents Group volunteers who help by raising awareness, funds and donations as well as goods to sell to provide materials for use in the construction of various animal shelters and bird cages and aviaries. Our largest expense is food, shelters and clean bedding etc for the animals we are caring for. If you would like to help, you can make a small donation (Minimum £1) by filling out a registration form and sending it, along with a cheque or postal order. In addition, we are now offering the chance to sponsor the animals using the same payment methods. You can sponsor any of the animals in our care or make a single donation at the point of 'pick up' if you wish. ALL donated funds go towards helping to pay for the care of the birds and animals. You can even sometimes buy our fresh duck eggs the proceeds of which also go towards looking after the birds and animals. We now have facilities for rescued battery hens and our new Chicken Coup already has 5 resident hens and one cockerill. Chickens are able to scratch around freely on site. When they are rescued, many of the hens are badly feather plucked and haven't seen the light of day whilst they have been in the battery farms, or neglected on allotment sites, but soon recover with good care and attention and quickly become a picture of health. Some can still provide a daily supply of tasty free range eggs, which are purchaseble to raise funds for ClawsnPaws Hartlepool. All the birds and animals are cared for daily by our small family and circle of friends AND by members of the volunteer supporters group who devote their time to helping bring many of the animals back into good health and taking part in events and fund raising activities. Once they are fully recovered, ClawsnPaws tries to re-home some of the domestic animals and return the wild ones back into the wild. We do ask for a small charge when re-homing domestic birds or animals which is used to assist in the upkeep of all other existing birds and animals in our care as well as helping with the cost of rescuing others. IF YOU WANT TO HELP IN ANY WAY GIVE US A RING or EMAIL US at erikanugent@clawsnpawsarc.com Sally - our Orange Winged Amazon !
Sally was found flying around Hartlepool and taken by a member of the public to the RSPCA at Great Ayton. Claws'n'Paws have provided a home at our Southbrooke site and she is now becoming quite a character. She will climb out of her cage, and jump onto her carers arm and then onto her shoulder and be quite happy eating grapes as a treat. RAG Committee Members enjoyed her antics at one meeting when there were 8 Committee Members there and 4 animals !! Baldrick - (he is now 100% blind and one of the much loved rescued residents)
Grizzy - now a happy resident and now our site guard dog !
Grizzy was one of ClawsnPaws' very first successes. She was previously living as an under 2 year old with a much larger dog and 4 Chidren in a small house which meant she was overcrowded and was always being made to feel very in-secure. When her owners handed her over for a better life in a good home she spent the first 6 months just getting over previous traumer and her totally timid, shy and frightened characteristics. But with lots of love and care, and despite the fact that she still runs away from 'big' men! she is now a wonderful pet and lives permanently at ClawsnPaws and serves as our Guard Dog. She's a great vibrant pedigree Alsation and we could not now do without her. Everybody comments on what a beautiful specimen she now is, and she's lot's of fun BUT still takes a lot of time to look after. She's loving the new facilities with more open space and lots of nooks and crannies to explore. SOUTHBROOKE - ClawsnPaws Our Summers Hill, ClawsnPaws and HART initiatives have all now merged together into one charitable organisation, on 21st September 2009 at our first AGM, with full charity status now pending. As we care for sick, injured, neglected or abused animals our site is NOT open to the Public and we currently operate a 'pick up' service using our Hartlepool Animal Rescue Team volunteers and ClawsnPaws Staff to take such birds and animals into our care. We would like to thank everyone who has helped to make this all happen and especially to our early sponsors, fund-raisers, members, organisiations and companies who have given money and resources to our cause so far. We currently have 31 Bird and Animal residents in our care at ClawsnPaws the latest of these being an orphaned wild rabbit only 6 days old called 'malone' and a pigeon with a possible leg injury whom we have called 'josh' after the little boy who ensured he was handed over to us. Recently we released a sparrow who came to us at just a week or two old whose parents had been killed in the nest by rats! With lots of tender love and care and rearing and feeding every 2 hours for 4 weeks and then ensuring he could look after himself he was released into the wild again. We have recently also raised 4 baby wood pigeons (squabs) and after getting them through their infanthood they have all survived and enjoy the freedom of coming and going to and from our Wild Barn whenever they want. Hartlepool Animal Rescue Team (The Merger) The H.A.R.T. group (as was) has recently been inaugurated and merged into our members and residents advisory group of animal loving people in Hartlepool. It is now called the ClawsnPaws Animal Rescue Team.We are pleased to host and support this advisory group. There are other 'teams' that members and residents can get involved in. The volunteers from all parts of Hartlepool and even further afield are helping to set up and maintain our Animal Rescue Centre facilities and provide all the help they can on all aspects in connection with rescuing, caring for and re-homing abused, sick or neglected birds and animals. In return for their help dvisory group members get direct and free access to the animals in our care, hands on Training, as they help to feed and look after the birds and animals day to day needs giving them that extra bit of love and care they rightly deserve after what some of them have been through. HART members are now fully fledged ClawsnPaws Members and now form an integral part of ClawsnPaws membership who receive special access arrangements at key times of the year in return for the voluntary help they provide to ClawsnPaws. In November 2009 we will start the introduction of Volunteer Teams (one of which will be the Animal Rescue Team which will be all and more that HART Members previously enjoyed), but we will also have a Care Team for a Rota of Volunteers on-site to care for, clean out, bond with and feed the continuous stream of birds and animals in our care, along with other teams. RSPB SALTHOLME RESERVE ON 21st January 2009 the RSPB SALTHOLME NATURE RESERVE opened to the public. If you are a MEMBER of RSPB you can get in to the reserve for FREE - Details of what's on offer at Saltholme and RSPB joining details can all be obtained here:- -at the link put in a search for Saltholme and follow the links to details of the reserve TEESMOUTH BIRD CLUB If you are a member of Teesmouth Bird Club, RSPB also have special events and access to only TBC areas down at the Saltholme Marshes. Again, details of how you can join the Teesmouth Bird Club are here:- |
