Resident Animals at Secret World

Glade & Tess
Glades's home sett was dug up, leaving him orphaned at just 1 week old. He was suffering from hypothermia and had terrible injuries. Although he recovered and was returned to the wild, he was unhappy in his new life and returned to the sanctuary four months later.

Tess has a genetic defect, which made her very poorly when she was young. She would not have survived if it was not for the expert care she received at the sanctuary.

Amber - The Kestrel
Amber has a very sad story...
She was stolen from the nest she shared with her parents by two young children, they took her home and reared her as a pet, she lived in a canary cage and was fed for the first year of her life on dog food. Because of the diet and the husbandry conditions she lived in this resulted in her not actually growing to the size that she should have matured to, she is in fact a kestrel's head smaller than what she should be.

She came to live at Secret World from us receiving a call from the RSPCA, they reported that they had found, what looked like a Kestrel in a tree, it looked very depressed, wind blown with feather damage and very emaciated.

Our centre manager responded to the call. Upon arriving at the scent he was also confronted with the same sorry picture. The next task was to somehow get her down from the tree! The Centre Manager thought that it would be worth a try and see if she would come down to a glove being held out at arms length, this could work as he thought if she was a captive-bred bird of prey she may respond to a glove.

This worked perfectly, she must have been so hungry that she flew down out of the tree and straight onto the glove – rescued at last! She was brought back to Secret World where she underwent veterinary inspection and was found to be very emaciated with considerable feather damage, particularly to her tail feathers.

After months of care and attention given to her here at Secret World she made a full recovery and is now fighting fit and attends various school/college talks and goes along to Clarks Village to help educate the general public that wild animals belong in the wild.

There are also other resident animals at Secret World, come and meet them on our next open day:
Tortoises, terrapins, friendly ferrets, goats, geese, ducks, chickens, pot-bellied pig – Wilba, mink, harvest mice, slow worms, giant African land-snails, African grey parrot, peacocks, guinea fowl, squirrels and Amber the Kestrel