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Article: All in a day's work Life in a wildlife hospital isn't all cute and furry. These animals can bite. As Stephen Hoare discovers, some patients are just so ungrateful
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 28, 2000
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THE wards of Wildwood Wildlife Hospital in Worplesdon, near
Guildford, are alive - with foxes, bats, badgers, two baby hedgehogs,
geese, a tame barn owl and fledglings too numerous to mention. Doing
the rounds is animal care technician Anna Burnett, making sure her
charges are cleaned, fed and watered. Wildwood, based at Merrist Wood
College, is a haven for sick animals most of which have been found
injured or orphaned at the roadside and brought in by members of the
public.
Anna's aim is to provide the creatures with food and shelter until
they can fend for themselves and be returned to the wild.
Eighteen-year-old Anna is a former Merrist Wood student. She
started working at Wildwood last ...