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North American river otter?

Alan

 

I hope its not a raccoon, i'm hoping for fisher.

 

Halt the rumours, Adam Hemsley shared this on his personal Facebook page, originally posted by the Trinity Veterinary Care.



The Trinity Veterinary Care wrote the following:
''We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone involved with finding a forever home for our American Mink.

'Minnie' the Mink was bought into us via a member of the public after being trapped by a neighbouring mink trap.

The trap was provided by a company who catch and destroy mink under direct instruction of the law due their non-native inhabitancy. Mink decimate entire populations of wild life to survive and more and so are not allowed to be re- released into the wild once they are caught!

It is against the law to keep mink unless you have a license to do so AND a very secure enclosure, whereby they cannot escape. This means most that are caught are euthanized.

So, after an entire week of Minnie's attitude, odour and search for somewhere with a license, we have managed to see Minnie the Mink off to a safe home with Hemsley Conservation Centre.

Thank you to Billy from The Retreat Animal Rescue, Lorraine March from St John Wildlife Rescue and Niall Lester from New Hope Animal Rescue and of course Adam Hemsley at Hemsley Conservation Centre for all your help in getting Minnie to a safe and licenced home!

Thank you so much for giving this one an alternative to euthanasia!

he Staff here at TVC have been great with her as well as patient, especially when she escaped within 10 minutes of arriving here! (She was then kept in large carrier- inside a large kennel to avoid this happening again)

Good Luck Minnie the Mink - We will see you in your new home soon''

 

That's a bit different then, providing a home to a rescue rather than choosing to go into a particular species.

 

A pair of greater hedgehog-tenrecs arrived at the collection yesterday, and have gone on-show in the lemur house.

 

A pair of maned wolves arrived at the centre on evening of Monday 12th. They will remain off-show for the next week, after which there will be allotted time slots when staff take visitors to see them.

 

Some new species that have arrived in the past few weeks include electric blue geckos, Wallace's flying frogs and a pair of New Caledonian mossy geckos.

There are also plans for free-roaming monkeys (species unspecified) in the near-future.

 

Some more new arrivals
1. South American Boa constrictor
2. Freshwater rays
3. Mossy geckos
4. Lorikets

 

A new arrival - a male three-banded armadillo has arrived from Heidelberg Zoo and is mixed in with the common marmosets and prehensile-tailed porcupines.

 

Two new species have arrived at Hemsley - pairs of both greater Egyptian and lesser Egyptian jerboas. Both species are settling in well.

Information (including a video of a greater Egyptian jerboa) is on the centre's Facebook page.

EDIT - Another new species (whose arrival was mentioned on 1st August) is a pair of black-tailed marmosets from Longleat Safari Park.

 

They now have a female rusty spotted cat, currently off show.

 

White-lipped tamarins have arrived at the collection.

 

Ok so I viewed the map for this place and didn't see maned wolves on the map so either their map isn't up to date on their site or the maned wolves are no longer there?

 

They don't hold maned wolves any more.

 

Is there any further info regarding planned developments this year? I saw a map that suggested they plan to expand quite quickly..

 

We have indeed grown, and are continuing to do so. We have a number of species off show at the moment completing quarantine and for which facilities are being finished. If there are any specific areas of interest that anyone would like to know about, I'd be happy to answer!

 

Hi Adam
Do you still hold Egyptian Fruit bats and Morelets Crocodiles? What species do you have show/hope to get in the future?