Wildlife SOS - True Stories from Britain's Favourite Animal Rescue Centre

Simon Cowell

• Publisher: John Blake
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781786063700
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Zoology
• Index: Biological Sciences

To Wildlife Aid's Simon Cowell, animal emergencies are just a typical day's work. In fact, he and his staff deal with more than 12, 000 wildlife incidents each year. From a hedgehog trapped in a freezer, to a little owl colliding with a 17-ton lorry, there are not many rescue situations that he has not had to deal with.
Wildlife Aid is Britain's leading wildlife rehabilitation centre and, as such, has become the subject of the enormously successful television series Wildlife SOS. Having been on our screens for over a decade, it is adored by both adults and children for its educational information, its heart-warming rescue stories and of course for its down-to-earth humour. As Simon himself says, 'Being bitten by badgers, kicked by deer and "taloned" by owls is all in a day's work, but it still really hurts!'
The tales about the residents that the centre has helped to nurse back to health will make you laugh and cry in equal measure. With information-packed fact files about each animal to accompany the stories, and bursting with beautiful colour pictures, this book is a must-have for very animal lover.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Epigraph
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Preface by Simon’s Daughter Lou Cowell
• Deep Frees! – The Story of Hardy the Hedgehog
• All Fore One – The Story of Tee the Tawny Owl
• Oh Deer – The Story of Felix the Fawn
• Every Rose has its Fawn – The Story of Petal, Rose’s Fawn
• Jewels in the Crown – The Story of Ruby the Magpie
• Number 5: Alive! – The Story of Number 5 the Cygnet
• David and Goliaths – The Story of David the Duckling (and Family)
• Out of the Fishing Line, into the Fire! – The Story of Blaze the Duckling
• Tuesdays with Robin – The Story of Lucky the Robin
• The Good Wife – The Story of Snow White’s Barn Owls
• Rabbit from a Trap – The Story of Bun the Rabbit
• Chim Chim-in-ey – The Story of Sooty, Sweep, Sue and Bob, the Jackdaws
• Gentle Giant – The Story of Li’l, the Little Owl
• Orphan Alfie – The Story of Alfie the Fox Cub
• Out-foxed – The Story of Annette the Fox Cub
• The Golden Gosling – The Story of Eddie the (Eagle) Gosling
• Bedroom Yard – The Story of Callum’s Adopted Pheasant Family
• Pop Goes the Weasel – The Story of Pop the Weasel
• A Bird on the Hand – The Story of Stig the Herring Gull
• Squirrel v Birdfeeder – The Story of Squiggle the Squirrel
• Tired and Wired – The Story of Bliss the Badger
• Wood Splinters – The Story of Balsa the Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Grey Days – The Story of Goldie the Pigeon
• ‘There’s a Moose Loose …’ – The Story of Hickorydickorydock the Wood Mouse
• Past Walthamstow, Post Yard Arm – The Story of Billy-Ray the Polecat-Ferret
• The Call of the Wild – The Story of the First Treecreepers
• Afterword
• About Wildlife Aid
• Copyright