~~RAFFLE TIME~~

Hi Everyone, I'm holding a raffle at Dove Vet's, Stapleford. The raffle will be running for the month of March, tickets are only 20p each or £1 a strip and the winning tickets will be drawn on the 1st April, there's at least 15 prizes to be won..... lets give this a good push for the rescue, Ann x
Tickets can be purchased via Paypal to my account - Here please send as a gift to avoid Paypal charges and I shall message you with your numbers.

Hay Arrives-Many Thanks

We were offered a good deal on some hay from Natures Own Pets: 50 bags of XL hay (which we use)  for just £125. As the weather is getting colder, we need to get the hay in, sooner rather than later.
Natures Own Pets Hay is IDEAL for us as it stores away easily, which is essential in our limited space.
A
s we are only a small charity, we very rarely have cash available up front. We asked for support on Facebook and Twitter, and had some reasonable response. Thankfully customers of FurEver Friends in Hucknall, Nottingham were able to top up the money. We were able to order the hay which arrived today. This will keep us going a wheek or 2 ;)
So a massive Thank You to EVERYONE who helped us out and donated towards the Hay and of course a HUGE Thank You to Natures Own Pets for your generous offer!!!

Don't forget you can DONATE at any time. We have over 200 little mouths to feed, and we rely 100% on public donations and goodwill.

50 XL bags of Natures Own Pets Hay

Now available-Supreme Petfoods Charity Calendar

Supreme Petfoods recently ran a competition on Facebook to find a charity to support. We were fortunate enough to win this competition!! Supreme Petfoods then asked people to send them photos of their cute pets to be judged to feature on a calendar. Once the feature pets were picked, it was announced that all pictures (of reasonable quality) would be on the calendar...one for each day. All proceeds of the sale of this cute animals calendar come back to Avalon!

The calendar is now ready to buy!! 

Help Avalon by getting your 2014 wall planner here.

Mummy pig rejects her babbas

These baby piggies were born today to a guinea pig who presumably wasn't ready to be a mum. The babies are all much smaller than we would hope for of newborns. Shockingly, in a display of very UNUSUAL behaviour the mummy pig started nibbling at her babies. She has chewed off the back foot and some of the front toes of this poor little one. She has also had a nibble at some of her other babies' ears. Shaz is doing what she can to save the babies and make them as comfortable as possible. She has separated mum and babies and the babies are now being looked after by another piggy who recently became a mummy. This behaviour is NOT normal behaviour and we can only guess why she would have behaved in such a way.

A HUGE Thank You to Galens Garden

We would like to say a massive THANK YOU to Galens Garden for their help at the with our sick piggies, many of you will probably know that one of our auction girl piggies lost all 6 of her babies and now we are struggling to save her, times aren't good.


We desperately need donations from you all with meds for the piggies.


Please visit their site for some great products and help us by donating so we can get meds from them.

Please donate through paypal if you have an account

also we accept Cheques,

please make them payable to Avalon Guinea Pig Rescue

our address is

43 EWELL ROAD

WOLLATON

NOTTINGHAM

NG8 2DE

Great news! Avalon is now on YouTube

We have set up a channel on YouTube. We'll be posting videos of various activities here at Avalon. Naturally, we'll probably be mostly posting videos of the gorgeous piggies. Perhaps you'll see the ones destined to be a part of your family! So check out Avalon GPR regularly for the latest videos.

 

Bark in the Park 2013

 

Shaz and Leanne from Avalon Guinea Pig Rescue visited Shipley Country Park yesterday for the Annual 'Bark in the Park' event which raises money and awareness for local charities. With various charities and plenty of animals around it was an interesting day full of laughs and cheers as well as tears from some of the sights we saw.

Avalon would like to thank Derbyshire County Council as well as give a quick mention to a few of the other rescues that were at the event yesterday. Without their continued passion and efforts, many animals would not be here today.

Babbington Rescue - http://www.babbington-rescue.org.uk/
German Shepherd Rescue Elite (GSRE) - http://gsrelite.co.uk/
Parrotaid - http://www.parrotaid.com