Grey Squirrel License

[farplace]

We live in an "official" red squirrel area, even though the nearest reds are over 5 miles away. There are grey squirrels living wild in our woodland a mile from the sanctuary. We were brought a baby hand-reared grey squirrel a couple of months ago. It is illegal to keep one without a license from Natural England. It is also illegal to release one, allow one to escape, or to kill one, without a license from Natural England.
We needed to build an enclosure which met their exact standards - which were very very precise. We were given just 6 weeks to comply..... and today were were inspected.
WE PASSED!!! Stephen the Squirrel is safe in his purpose-built, DEFRA Quality enclosure, and we have permission to keep him. If others come along, we will need an upgrade to the licence, but we celebrate today because we've done it!!

[Chris Mullins]

Wow ... that's fantastic Jan, well done the lot of you, I'm so proud of you all, I know how hard the government can be.

Hip, Hip x3

Chris

[farplace]

Here is a photo of little Stephen tucking in to his dinner. We try to give him as natural and varied a diet as possible. He particularly likes pine cones, clover flowers and seeded grasses, although various nuts and dried fruit are high on his list of favourites.