Recycle for Animal Charities... newspapers, toilet rolls... watch for their Wish Lists

Okay, so you can send animal charities your stamps - but what else can you recycle and send them to help the animals in their care?

You can always look out for local wildlife and animal charities wish lists.  These are usually posted somewhere on their website - or even their Facebook pages - and they have items the charity needs.

Today, I came across Rogers Wildlife Rescue, who are based in Woodingdean, East Sussex.   They care for about 1,500 animals a year and release many of them back into the wild. Small birds are prey for cats and sparrowhawks while animals such as foxes and hedgehogs are often hit by vehicles on the road.  Many become tangled in netting, and others are victims of cruelty at the hands of people.  The charity also helps orphaned youngsters - fox, badger, baby rabbits, squirrels, and nesting garden birds. 

Looking through their website, they have a need for items such as newspapers to help clean out cages, especially in spring and summer - so rather than put your newspapers in a recycle bin, see if there's a wildlife rescue or animal charity close to you which could use them instead.  Their gerbils like to chew on toilet or kitchen roll middles to chew, or cereal and cake boxes.

And of course you can donate items such as kitchen towel, or food - in the case of Rogers Wildlife Rescue, they say tins of “Pedigree” chicken flavour or fish flavoured “Felix” tins are great, and they also use lots of Nature diet, preferably chicken flavour.

So the next time you think of binning items such as newspapers etc, find your local wildlife rescue or animal sanctuary on the Internet and see if you can see if they have a wish list or anything which gives an idea of how they can items you no longer want.  How to Help Us or Get Involved pages are usually a good place to start.

It's amazing how creative animal charities can be, and what we no longer need or use could be tremendously helpful to them.