Saturday, December 20, 2008

ISS Table Quiz


As many of you know we held the ISS Christmas table quiz in Gormley's of Garristown last night. There was a great turnout and a great night was had by all. We really appreciate the support of all the people who turned up and took part. We also extend our appreication to Stena Line, Iarnrod Eireann, Dublin Zoo and Terry McCoy of the Red Bank in Skerries for donating the prizes. We don't have a final figure for our fundraising efforts as we still have to tot it all up but we think it will be pretty impressive. Thank you everybody and we hope to see you all soon at our other fundraising events!

Katie.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Bobby


Bobby is up in the big pool now and doing really well. Here is a picture of her beautiful little self when she first came in...

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Today at the Sanctuary

Hi all!

Very busy at the Sanctuary today. We have 3 new seals in (2 Greys and 1 Common). We have named the two greys Bailey and Philipe and the Common Sydney. The two Greys are in good enough form, they just need to put on some weight. The little Common Sydney is very sick though. He has severe gashes to the face-around his eyes and nose. We're not sure what exactly caused these injuries but we are treating him and hope he will make a full recovery.

Sonny (had a digit amputated a little while ago) is as fiesty as ever and is trying to break his own record for biting handlers-3 so far! Dean's eye has cleared up. We actually renamed him Deana as he is in fact a her! Ebony is still very weak but getting there day be day.

There are 5 seals up in the big pools. Foggy who is almost completely blind is also up there. He loves his fish and chases the volunteers around the enclosure when we go to feed him.

We also have two new seagulls who have various minor injuries-we have put one of them in with our long-term resident seagulls and one is relaxing in a dark quiet place until he feels a bit better.

That's all for now as it's time for the 4 o'clock feed so I have to go.

Katie :-)