Rescued wood mouse bathes in milk bottle top before return to the wild
The wood mouse and its three orphaned siblings were hand-reared at a Gloucestershire wildlife hospital before being released together.
An orphaned wood mouse small enough to bathe in a milk bottle top has been released with its three siblings after being hand-reared at a Gloucestershire wildlife hospital.
The bottle top contained ‘milky biscuit’, a specialist rearing formula used in the rehabilitation of orphaned, young or sick animals.
Vale Wildlife Hospital, near Tewkesbury, took in the four mice in October after they were dug up in a garden and rescued by its team. Their mother had been found dead.
Care assistant Molly hand-reared the siblings, which responded well to care and were released together a few weeks later, on 16 October.
Natalie Gould, from the hospital, said: “They were hand reared by our care assistant, Molly. They all responded very well and were released together on the 16th of October.”
The hospital has cared for sick, injured and orphaned wildlife for more than 40 years and has admitted more than 7,900 casualties so far this year.