East Sussex WRAS is the only charity which attends on site and provides comprehensive life saving emergency first aid and treatment at the scene where injured baby deer have been found caught in stock fencing, hit by cars or attacked by dogs.
However, with the increase in the number of baby and adult deer being dealt with, WRAS desperately needs to improve and expand its current facilities.
Even baby deer are expensive to treat and hand rear, with raw goats milk cost over £1.75 a pint. Trips to the vets costing over £50 a time. Convenia antibiotics costing over £110 per 10ml bottle, X-rays costing over £25 each, supplimentary food once older costing over £12 per 20kg, as well as the constant cost of bedding, bandages, syringes and other supplies.
There is a distinct lack of facilities to take on baby and adult deer in East Sussex, and WRAS needs to construct new holding sheds and pens, as well as constructing fencing for the rehabilitation pens.
ALL of the baby deer WRAS is currently dealing with are the victims either directly or indirectly of human activity.
Many deer die as a result of being caught in stock fencing and being cut free only to run off and die from their injuries. Ligature wounds start to break down, become infected or the blood flow is compromised and the limb dies.
Many of these deer could be saved if WRAS had the facilities to take them in, house them, operate on them, treat them, medicate them, feed them and rehabilitate them back to the wild. WRAS aims to construct several holding sheds and pens as well as a small shed or building which can be used to operate on and treat injured deer - this all costs money and we need your help to raise as much as possible. Each shed and pen is going to cost approximately £2,500, the operating building is going to cost over £10,000.
These defenceless animals can not help themselves. Please help us help prevent their suffering and save their lives.
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