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Week
1
Date: 16th June 2003
Persil has transferred into a new bigger cage with lots of toys
such as a hammock and some nice juicy
branches.
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| Persil
the albino squirrel |
He
and Daz are having a great time and are learning to cache their
walnuts and hazelnuts in their bedding. They are still being hand
fed with milk from a syringe once or twice a day just to make sure
that they are continuing to grow well.
Next week they will be going on their first visit
to a nursery group where we have been asked to talk about wild animals,
the dangers they face and the work we do to help them. Hopefully
they will be the stars of the show...more next week on how they
get on.
Week
2
Date: 24th June 2003
Persil
actually appeared on the Xchange Programme on CBBC channel last
Wednesday and is to be filmed for a programme on grey squirrels
which is being produced for BBC Wildlife on one, sometime in the
autumn.
Persil has also met his first group of children during a visit to
Cherubs Nursery in Warlingham, Surrey on Thursday. he was definitely
the star of the visit and received several biscuits for his trouble!
Several
cards and messages of goodwill have arrived for Persil and, more
importantly, the publicity he generated has led several other people
with wildlife casualties to our door, meaning that even more lives
have been saved.
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is receiving fanmail! |
Persil
and Daz have become very adept at making cosy nests out of their
towels, where they often sleep cuddled up together nose to tail...it
can be quite peculiar to see what looks like a grey squirrel attached
to a white tail!!
The
staff are making a point of keeping them company by playing with
them every day...a very hard chore indeed! They no longer require
syringe feeding although I think they still get the odd free feed
when my back is turned! All offers of Pecan nuts, hazelnuts and
digestive biscuits are gratefully received too!
Persil and Daz, and the BBC website
devoted to them, are featured in our latest newsletter, which is
going to press as we speak.
Week
3
Date:
14th July 2003
This
week Persil and Daz learned that the BBC natural history unit are
definitely commissioning the buiding of a specific aviary for them,
in order to help with some filming in the autumn. This has obviously
made them feel very special indeed.
For now, they are both fully weaned and enjoying lots of titbits
in addition to their regular diet of pecan nuts, walnuts, hazelnuts,
plain biscuit and soft fruit...they have both become quite partial
to chocolate chip cookies.
They
are both still indoors as the hot sun we have had lately may prove
too much for Persil's sensitive skin..at least the small mammal
ward is fully air conditioned so that they can both play to their
hearts content whilst the hospitals' staff get sunstroke outside!!
They
have a special swing, meant for ferrets, in their cage and this
has become their favourite toy...when they get their new aviary,
this will have to go with them or we know there will be trouble.
More to follow soon......
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