29/05/2026
Go big or go home 🤌🫡
At Raheny Vets every single patient gets the best care, in keeping with the One Health Policy of animal welfare. Strict hygiene protocols, the most up to date monitoring tools on the market and a dedication from the team that is brought to every surgery, everyday. I'm so proud to work alongside them (when I not scrubbing hedgehog cages!).
This week brought a horrific case of a hedgehog that was hit by a strimmer 😪
I can guarantee that many vet professionals would have taken one look and opted for humane euthanasia which would have been completely fair and understandable! Not my girls!
Maca and Aoife took the time to assess the patient..
🦔was she fit enough for the anaesthetic?
🦔were they confident of a good outcome?
🦔could the patient be released back to the wild?
Yes yes yes... "let's try"...
Sometimes the outcome isn't favourable but we try, always.
My poor colleagues must be sick of me at times but they never show it. They always make space in their day for emergencies like this.
Lovingly named Macaoife after her two wildlife hero's (vet Maca and nurse Aoife) I'm pleased to say she's doing great, receiving round the clock care, pain relief, antibiotics etc.
When I started in rehab all we asked vets to do was euthanasia now wildlife medicine is an established field in its own right, with more and more new graduates proudly stating "i want to work in wildlife medicine". This has taken time, building relationships with veterinary professionals, showing them that wildlife has the same value as any domestic animal, that the job satisfaction is equal to, if not more, than pet medicine. Vet and nurse skills are so transferable! We need them the same way they need rehabbers.
What a job, what a team 👏
