Successful treatment of wildlife

Our wildlife centre staff treat all sorts of injured wild animals and we have many successes. This is just one of them.

This common toad had been injured by a gardener’s fork and had suffered a prolapsed lung. When he arrived at East Winch Wildlife Centre our vets hopped into action.

The small amphibian was given anaesthetic and operated on immediately. Amazingly our vets were able to push his tiny lung back into his chest cavity and repair the damage successfully.

After his operation, the adult toad was given a course of antibiotics and we monitored his condition. Thankfully he soon started to bounce back from his ordeal.

It wasn’t long before this toad had made a full recovery and was released back into the wild, so he could get back to eating slugs, snails and insects in his natural environment.

Alison Charles, wildlife centre manager, said:

At the time it was a real emergency and we rushed the toad in to surgery.

We are delighted that he has made a full recovery. No matter what size the animal, we always do our best to try and help them recover and release them back into the wild where they belong.

Learn more about how human activity can affect animals like this toad in the wild.

Did you know?

Common toads move very differently to frogs, they prefer to crawl rather than to hop!