Wild Surrey Wildlife Rescue

23/08/2026

19/08/2026

URGENT: Our wildlife rescue in Reigate, Surrey faces closur… Kim Goodhead-White needs your support for URGENT APPEAL: Save Wild Surrey Wildlife rescue from closure

17/08/2026

Wild Surrey Wildlife Rescue
✋ IMPORTANT INFORMATION UPDATE ✋
(Sitting here in absolute despair 🥺)

SADLY, DUE TO A LACK OF FUNDS, WE WILL HAVE TO CLOSE OUR DOORS TO RESCUES AND NEW PATIENTS COME THE 1ST SEPTEMBER 2026.

Physically, we have plenty of treatment and rehab spaces available for new patients in our wildlife unit and hedgehog hospital, however, without vital funding for vet visits, life-saving medication, medical supplies, and fuel, we simply cannot continue to rescue or take in any more animals.

We have now drained our own personal funds trying to keep the rescue wheels turning…

The reality we are facing is heartbreaking 🥺

📞 We receive over 50 calls for help every single day

🐾 We take in hundreds of wild and domestic animals every month—orphans, injured and sick wildlife, and unwanted pets needing a safe bridge to a new family

🌿 We do everything possible to heal and rehabilitate wildlife to return them to the wild where they belong.

🕊️ We proudly hold a zero-destruction policy unless injuries are so severe that recovery is impossible and unethical.

We are desperate not to have to turn people, other struggling rescues and animals away that need us!

We need our community now more than ever before! 🙏🥺

If you can spare even the price of a coffee, are able to set up a small monthly donation or if you can help us amplify this message by sharing, your support could keep our doors open for animals in need who have nowhere else to go and would otherwise be put down and not given a second chance.

🙏 Please help us 🙏
We have less than £100 remaining in the fund 💔

100% of every donation goes entirely on the rescued animals, we do not take a wage nor do we even buy a coffee with donation money!

💳 Please donate to our emergency fund:
www.wildsurreywildliferescue.com
PayPal: [email protected]
Go fund me link:
https://gofund.me/5b310f1c4

📢 Please share, tag, and comment to get this seen!

Don't lose the only rescue and wildlife hospital in East Surrey! 🥺🙏💔

Thank you
🙏🥺🙏
Kim and Ross
Wild Surrey
Wildlife Rescue
Reigate, Surrey
07932 052522

16/08/2026

The dangers of netting

This young hedgehog was found this morning caught in netting.

Thankfully her finders cut her free but knew not to continue cutting the rest off and called us for help.

Luckily little Maggie has not been cut by the garden netting but will still have to remain in care under close observation for the next 5 to 7 days due to the nature of the rescue.

Constriction injuries don't always show initially so it's really important that any animal that has been tangled up in any sort of netting is brought into rescue, even if they seem to be ok, so that any signs of swelling, bruising, tissue or nerve damage can be treated immediately if they show.

If you find an animal tangled up in anything, it's really useful to us if we have a photo of the entanglement before you cut them free.
This allows us to see where the animal was caught so we can monitor those body parts closely over the following days.

Always contain in a suitable high sided box, with an old but clean towel so they can hide to feel safe and keep away from any children, pets and loud noises until rescue arrives.

✋Please do not feed, if they are dehydrated, feeding can cause organ failure which will kill.

We administered fluids to Maggie as she was dehydrated from potentially being stuck all night.
Once she was stable a few hours later she enjoyed a drink of rehydration fluids and bite to eat.

Maggie isn't out of the woods yet but thanks to her finders quick actions and immediately calling in a rescue, she will have the best chance at making a full recovery 💖

Big thank yous to those who have donated wet and dry kitten and cat food... Maggie is benefiting from your kindness.

If you would like to help us with vital medical supplies we have a wishlist and the items get sent directly to us at the wildlife rehabilitation center 🙏💚

We are particularly low on medical gloves (both pink M and green L) and 10ml syringes please 🙏💖

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3QBQGBLKRKHQV?ref_=wl_share

Thank you to everyone who supports us!
We couldn't do this without you! 🫵🫶🙌💖

Kim and Ross
Wild Surrey
Wildlife Rescue
07932 052522
www.wildsurreywildliferescue.com

11/08/2026

⚠️ URGENT WARNING:
PLEASE SHARE FAR AND WIDE ⚠️

⚠️☠️Contains distressing content and photos but awareness saves lives.
🙏🥺🤞🦔🐍🐸🐣

✋ STOP BEFORE YOU STRIM ✋

Before you or your gardener touch a bush, shrub, or patch of long grass this season, please check thoroughly.

We are currently overwhelmed with devastating strimmer and mower injuries to hedgehogs and other small animals. Every single one this year has been fatal. The injuries just too horrific to heal, and the suffering had to be ended.

The Reality of Strimmer Injuries

* Unimaginable Pain: Adult hogs and hoglets are being found with catastrophic wounds, often compounded by severe flystrike as they drag themselves helplessly around in agony.
It doesn't always kill straight away 🥺🙏

* Zero Survivors: Due to the severity of the trauma, none of the hedgehogs brought in with strimmer injuries so far could be saved 💔😭

* They Are Closer Than You Think: Even if you have never spotted a hedgehog in your garden, they are often quietly nesting where you least expect them, you never even knew they were there.

🫵 HOW YOU CAN HELP 🫵

* 👀 Check First: It takes just a few seconds to gently look through undergrowth before starting any garden work. Those few seconds can save a precious life.

* 🗣️ Spread the Word: Share this post so more people know to check before they strike to protect hedgehogs and other vulnerable wildlife in our communities from having the same fate.

We apologise for the graphic nature of the photos, but the reality must be seen so we can prevent these completely avoidable tragedies. 🙏🦔

This beautiful adult female was actually screaming out in pain while we rushed her to our vets... She had both back legs smashed to pieces and hanging off, massive injuries to her abdomen, hips and spine and maggots were eating her alive... It was incredibly distressing and it will haunt me to my last days...

This youngster had her front foot lopped off and was only attached by skin, gangrene and sepsis had already taken hold of the exposed bone... She had been hobbling around for some days, confused as to what has happened and again, it was just horrific so to see...

More and more patients come through our doors with similar injuries and the suffering is immense and it is totally avoidable... 😭💔😭

⚠️✋·STOP 👀·LOOK ·STRIM ✅

Please share far and wide
Thank you
🙏🥺🦔🙏

Kim and Ross
Wild Surrey Wildlife Rescue
www.wildsurreywildliferescue.com
07932 052522

03/08/2026

Every morning I weight all the hedgehogs and hoglets we currently have in care with us as part of the morning cleaning routine for our records and to make sure that all the hoglets are gaining weight as they should.

Because they are wild, talking and any noise is kept to an absolute minimum and handling must be kept less than 60 seconds.

When they are this flipping cute it takes all I have in me to not react and make cutesy noises!

It's a real challenge that I face every day!! 😅

Who else would have this problem....?
Or is it just silly me....?! 🫣🤣🥹🙏💕🫣

Kim x
Wild Surrey
Wildlife Rescue💚
07932052522
www.wildsurreywildliferescue.com

02/08/2026

"Poppy's Owl"

Early morning we received a desperate call from one of our equine friends.... Poppy had found an owl in the middle of the road and he was in a bad way.

Poppy kindly rush him over to us, the tell tell signs of a road traffic accident were apparent.... It was not looking good for him and it was a race against time to stabilise him....

He was in a sorry state, blood all round his beak, very confused and barely responsive. We started treatment immediately.

For the first 10 days we had to hand feed and tube fluids into him to keep him alive, providing round the clock life support.

Day 11 to our surprise and relief, he was up on his feet and looking directly back at us, albeit still with blurred vision. Signs of improvement however not out of the woods yet...

Then the day we had been waiting and hoping for, after all the hand feeding, tube hydration and round the clock care.... Poppy's Owl fed himself for the first time!!

His stay with us was coming to an end... 🥳

After a long road to recovery, Poppy's owl had made it. He had survived against all odds!!

He was released a few days later once we were 100% happy with him, not far from where the accident happened and while the sun was setting.
He knew exactly where he was and confidently hopped out of his carrier and took off up into the skys once again.

I can not stress enough how we could not do this work without you 🫵 We need you, we can not do this alone...

The donations of newspapers, puppy pads, pet beds, bowls, food, medical supplies and vital funds to cover vet bills and fuel... all of this saved this owls life.

Poppy's owl has a second chance because of the joint effort and generosity of the community around us.

Please consider supporting our work.
Our funds have run dry and we are desperately trying to keep the rescue running for the numerous patients that need our help every single day.

One off and monthly donations can be made and set up on our website
www.wildsurreywildliferescue.com
Or you can click the link below to purchase items from our Amazon wishlist to be shipped straight to our new treatment and rehabilitation center.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3QBQGBLKRKHQV?ref_=wl_share

A massive thank you to Poppy for rushing this poorly boy to us. It's not the first animal that she has found and brought in to us and I doubt the last... she is the real life Snow White, all animals love Poppy 🥰🙏💕

Another massive thank you goes out to Pip at Lingfield Pet and Exotics for her generous donation of well over 200 frozen mice, in numerous different sizes. Pip you saved the day and helped save this, and many other tawny owls, that we had in at the same time. 💕

We (and our patients) are truly grateful to everyone 🫶💕🙏

What a privilege its been to be part of this tawny's recovery and second chance.... To fly once again through the night skys where he belongs 🥰💕

However, I bet he is in dead trouble with the Mrs....! 🤣😅🫣🥰

Thank you all
Kim and Ross
07932052522
Wild Surrey
Wildlife Rescue
Reigate 💚

31/07/2026

All animals deserve respect, kindness and love 🥰🤗🙏