Tell Labour To Fulfill Its Election Promise To Stop The Badger Cull

 The person everyone needs to contact about stopping the badger cull as Labour promised is:

@SteveReedMP

steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk

Me, alone. I can be ignored.

https://members.parliament.uk/member/4268/contact

Help Stop Another 20000+ Badgers Being Killed!

 Others need to contact him not just me!

stevereedmp.co.uk Mr Reed, with respect, Labour PROMISED the unscientific badger cull would stop. We now have a list of areas set for this years cull. Will this be stopped? 300K badgers to date the species may be extinct by the 2030s. Labours promise -to be kept?

26000 more badgers could be killed this year...if that many are left

New DEFRA Ministerial Team So....

This post was also sent to each of the MPs named

 DEFRA introduced its new ministerial team on X so I responded:

"Okay. So, WHEN are we going to hear about the badger cull being halted as promised and when are you all going to start the push to save disappearing UK wildlife? Come on I voted for you based on the promises,"

My hopes are non existent.

@SteveReedMP

- Secretary of State

@DanielZeichner

- Food Security and Rural Affairs

@EmmaHardyMPHull

- Water and Flooding

@MaryCreagh_

- Nature

@SueHayman1

- Biosecurity, Borders and Animal Welfare

Update of Seizure/Jaundice Foxes

 As a quick update on the foxes having seizures, collapsing and shutting down and displaying jaundice.

All are now noted as cases of leptospirosis and ongoing lab tests (we hope) might give us some other answers.

It Just Needed Some Food and Meds

 Mange and minor injuries in foxes are best treated in the wild; less stress through being trapped, transported and human interaction. Sarah Mills has been working solidly to treat any fox reported in the City and County of Bristol and even beyond in Bath and Weston-Super-Mare since Secret World stopped working beyond a 10 mile radius of its HQ.

In some cases rather belligerent people having the situation explained to them suddenly are incredibly helpful.  Here is Sarah Mills' report on a fox case from earlier in the week.

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Report at start of week for mum and cubs in a warehouse next to a diesel generator in North Bristol.

The company wanted them removed.

When I arrived I explained that they were weak and probably laying there to die. They agreed to let me treat them to which I did. Giving them Bravecto which is a one off treatment on the off chance I didn't see them again

The medicine was eaten I left them with food and asked for the area to be left alone. When I returned that evening they had all moved on so i cleaned up after the foxes and they haven't been back

Some food, water and rest was what they needed to give them strength. And before they know it they won't be itching either xx

A Nation of Animal Lovers?

To show what Sarah Mills, the Bristol Fox Lady, has to contend with I have decided to post this from here report on Face Book. How many people saw thios fox over the last month and did not bother reporting it?

Sarah:

 **UPSETTING IMAGES**

Starting with Little Travis from today

In absolutely no world is this ok, in a nation of apparent animal lovers.

Travis DID NOT get in this state overnight. How many walked past him? How many saw him from a kitchen window whilst washing the dishes? How many saw him scurry against the road?

He for sure has not been hidden away whilst mange ravished his little body.

To say he looked like a concrete garden statue is no exaggeration. He is alive in all of these photos. But how/why?? Because he has the strength of a fox. I so wish he'd hadn't kept fighting to survive because what a sad existence.

To get the call to at least help to end his suffering is just as important as treating a fox to live another day.

The Downs Veterinary Practice were absolutely outstanding. With only 4 mins warning that I was on the way. They were ready and waiting at the door. I held him and told him the pain of the needle would be the last pain he would feel. Then he would be free in heaven with all the food in the world. And just like that he was gone.

He hadn't lived before his life was over. I haven't seen anything like this for almost 2yrs. So I know we are doing a great job we are. But human ignorance has to stop or there will be more Little Travis's left to suffer.

The BBC in Bristol To Kill A Fox As It Has Mange and "We are a business"

  The BBC studios at Whiteladies Road, Bristol, home to wildlife programmes featuring Chris Packham and Sir David Attenborough, have also been known since the 1970s for foxes living there. They even used to film them occasionally for BBC Points West News.

A fox with easily treatable mange was reported. Sarah Mills, the Bristol Fox Lady )approved by the RSPCA and Animal Rescue Centre, Bristol) offered to treat it. The "Facilities Manager" told her that she could not as "contractors will deal with it" -so pest control are being paid to shoot it. "You do not understand that this is a business" was the response Sarah received.

So, getting the runaround on a Friday (knowing that by the time I could find someone everyone would have gone home I emailed BBC Points West, BBC Wildlife as well as the BBC HQ in London about the matter. I also alerted Chris Packham via X as to what was going on.

Very likely the fox is going to be killed rather than treated. At a time when fox numbers have declined so drastically that even the British Trust for Ornithology is suggesting the species be Red Listed it is totally disgusting that the "wildlife loving" BBC decides to kill an easily treatable animal.