Brinsley Animal Rescue

27/10/2026

An important post from our friends at Rescue Not Retail

Rabbits in the wild spend their days grazing and foraging in fields and woodland, digging warrens that can span up to 45 meters of interconnected burrows.
Yet sadly, it is still common for pet rabbits to be kept in cramped hutches, leaving them unable to express their most basic natural behaviours.
Keeping rabbits in hutches is an outdated practice which was popularised when rabbits were kept as urban ‘livestock’, bred by families in backgardens to be used for food. Rabbits kept in hutches were never meant to live for long, but now when kept as pets they can be kept in these cramped conditions for over a decade.
When kept in captivity, rabbits require constant access to at least 20sqm of unbroken floorspace, though the more space the better. Letting rabbits out for the day is not enough, as being crepuscular animals they are most active at dusk and dawn.
PDSA’s 2026 PAW report found that 62% of rabbits kept outdoors are kept confined to their hutches between 11 and 23 hours a day. Aside from experiencing boredom and stress, this much time in a hutch can lead to irreversible muscle wastage and arthritis.
We need to battle misinformation to create a better world for animals kept as pets.

24/10/2026

🐴🐄🐃🐂APPEAL 🐂🐃🐄🐴

Its the time of year when we need to pay to refill our hay / straw barn to get us through the winter, each year this is getting harder for us. With the long dry summer, our rescued animals have been eating through our winter hay, there has been so little grass!!

££££££££££ WE NEED TO RAISE £12,000 ££££££££

Please help us feed and bed our rescued cows, sheep, goats, horses, ponies & rabbits by purchasing a bale or part bale to restock and get us through the winter.
THANK YOU 🙏

Hay and Straw Winter Stock helps us keep rescued pets, farm animals safe, warm and well fed through the coldest months. ❄️🐾, our stock is very depleted, help…

18/10/2026

Meet the new piggy on the block, Billy!!

This sweet, very loving and needy boy is not just super cute, he is super lucky! Billy was found on the busy A46 main road, the Police caught him and took this tiny chap to a vets for a check over and we collected shortly after.

Billy hasn't been well at all, we initially didn't want to publish his story, we weren't sure that he would make it, he was very ill, no doubt triggered from all the stress, in the first few days of his life!

Thanks to the dedication of our volunteering hospital team, providing care and love, with the amazing support from of our farm vets, Billy has turned a corner, he is much brighter and finally eating.

This chap will never have to endure a factory farm, to end up on a plate, he will now live a full life, playing, bathing, running and sleeping like all of our other rescue pigs.

16/10/2026

Tomorrow is our regular People’s Kitchen Sumac Centre 7pm. On the menu is lasagne, foccacia and an Italian salad for a donation of £6. Cakes also sold seperately. All are welcome as always. Once it’s gone it’s gone though.
Hope to see you all tomorrow for lovely food, great company and a fabulous social. Licensed bar will also be open.

12/10/2026

This weekend it was time to give the Bluetongue booster vaccinations to our goats, sheep and cows. Its never easy with the cows, we can't simply go up and inject them! First we need to entice them into the cow shed, so they get bribed with some tasty food! Once contained, we can then corral them into a "cattle crush", this is an expensive piece of kit designed to safety contain them whilst we treat.

The cows get a bit distressed over nothing, so its a relief when its all over, well until it TB testing time that is. Soon after thier routine injections, they were back in the feild as if nothing had ever happened.

30/09/2026

We have soft-released four foxes that arrives earlier in the year as cubs, three of these cubs have been had reared by us, the fourth arrived with a broke pelvis and made a full recovery following surgery and rehabilitation.

They would normally leave thier parents in late Autumn, these unfortunately juveniles from different families, don't have the advantage of being with thier parents to teach them, we therefore "soft-release".

We look for ideal locations, in this case a private wood, we erect a temporary home where they be contained and fed each night for a week or so, then we let the free, but continue to supplement thier feed. As they get use to thier surroundings and instinct cuts in, we can reduce and eventually cease supplementary feeding.

This year, we have rescued 46 foxes including one today which sadly had to be euthanised due to severe injuries.

27/09/2026

A date for your dairy, its great to hear that Compassionate Derby is on again this year, a great event to buy ethical Christmas Gifts, eat amazing vegan food and attend the many talks, hopefully we will see you there!

We’re excited to announce Derby's Christmas Charity, Eco & Ethical Living Fayre is back!

Join us on Saturday 5th December at St. Peter's Church Hall in Derby City Centre. FREE ENTRY and everyone is very welcome.

There will be over 30 stalls selling an exciting array of vegan and eco food and lifestyle products, animal rescues and lots of other compassionate campaigns for animal rights, human rights, and environmentalism. There will also be engaging talks, vegan cookery demos, free samples and more!

Proceeds from the event will be going to the wonderful Brinsley Animal Rescue.

If you are interested in applying for a stall, please visit our website
https://www.compassionatederby.com/

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27/09/2026

Just when we thought it was time to hang up our hand rearing tools for another season and breath a sigh of relief a little 72 grammer arrives covered in maggots and fly eggs. After a few syringe feeds, some fluids and the removal of the eggs and maggots he was well on his way and eating on his own.

With unusually warm weather and climatic changes nature is all over the place and babies are still being born. This little one will remain with us for some time until he is big enough to go outside and survive a winter. If he doesn’t reach a good weight he may well be with us until Spring. Wildlife rescue never ends.

25/09/2026

Can you offer Johnny Munchkin a forever home? Johnny through no fault of his own is at his fourth home in the space of a year. His first owner had to move into a care home and he was not allowed to be with her, his second owner has just sadly passed away and he’s also been in 2 rescues.

He’s a lovely boy but gets nervous of new things. He’s 9 years old so is being overlooked but once he gets to know you he loves fuss and sitting on laps. He seems fine with other cats and some dogs and would suit an elderly human. He loves his food and since being with us he’s been on a diet!

If you can offer a home or would like to view this lovely fella then get in touch with the rescue.

22/09/2026

Hay and Straw Winter Stock helps us keep rescued pets, farm animals safe, warm and well fed through the coldest months. ❄️🐾, our stock is very depleted, help…