Category Archives: West Cork
A Different Kind of Trapping
Not my usual video, but I thought ye’d like to see a different kind of ‘trapping’. I’d a lovely day yesterday with my friend Gail, her horse May and pony Michael. I wanted to share it with you, and here’s 2.5 minutes of our 2ish hours with trap, horse and powny around the back roads […] Continue readingCurly & Barley & Blackrock Castle & Tescoes’ No Waste
Me & Curly & Barley went up to Cork on Thursday to visit the fab Joe & Suzanne at Sunbeam Vets. It turns out Curly has a fractured pelvis – he’s especially vulnerable because he has cowhocked legs (my lovely lil genetic mutant). So he needs six weeks cage rest. Barley (another wee genetic mutant, who […] Continue readingPound Statistics 2005-2015
The 2015 statistics for Irish dog pounds have just been published by environ.ie. I’ve had a wee look at the annual stats for Cork City, Cork County and Nationwide. You can see the itemised stats for the other counties, and more information generally, by checking the published figures. For each area, I’m most interested in the number of dogs dealt with […] Continue readingGlengarriff TNR Reccy
Popped up to Glengarriff for RAWR (Rural Animal Welfare Resources) yesterday to do a bit of trapping and check out the caregiver situation. RAWR have neutered most of the cats in the area I was checking out. But a few more need to be done. And they’ve been proving elusive! So here’s some pics – including the three […] Continue readingDucks Seek Hospitality
I heard through the grapevine that eight ducks had been abandoned at the Westlodge Hotel in Bantry at the weekend. I didn’t have much luck getting through to them to find out what was going on, so headed up there to see for myself. Sure enough, eight waddlers were sticking together in the grounds, somewhat […]
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