CROW’s Christmas rescues need your help

FOR R350 a month for 12 months, your sponsorship would go a long way into helping Elly, a one-month- old-baby monkey that was admitted at CROW after being found in someone’s driveway by herself.

On admission, the Centre for Rehabilitation of Wildlife was incredibly shocked to see this tiny little body with a cut tail. He back and head had also been shaved.

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According to CROW’s Facebook page, Elly is extremely malnourished and needs a lot of ‘TLC’ to ensure she’s on the road to recovery.

The post stated that Elly’s body is smaller than a newborn baby monkey due to starvation.

“Due to having no hair on a third of her body, Elly gets pretty cold without the use of a heating pad and red light. If there are any ladies out there who would like to knit Elly a little cover-up she would be really grateful! Her body dimensions are just a little bigger than a deodorant bottle.

“For R350 a month for 12 months, your sponsorship would go a long way into helping Elly have the best chance at a second chance by providing her with the basic daily necessities such as specialised milk formula, a heating pad, blankets and solid food. In return for your generous donation you will receive a sponsorship certificate, regular email updates with photos as well as having your family photo featured on our Facebook,” said CROW in its post.

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CROW is also rehabilitating a five-month-old grey duiker, which had also been admitted last week.

The duiker was found lying alone. When approached, he did not have the energy to run away. Being concerned, a member of public took him through to Scottburgh Veterinary Clinic where they examined him and administered medication and a drip.

“Once he was at CROW, he was given a thorough examination and our nurses found that he had no injuries but was dehydrated and malnourished. Even at this age, antelope are still suckling from their mothers as well as eating vegetation.

“He was somehow separated from his mother, being alone and unprepared, he started to lose condition and subsequently lacked the energy to continue on his own.

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“The centre continued his drip for three days as well as slowly introducing small amounts food at a time, to prevent overloading his system. His scent glands were also swollen but through careful massage, the oils within the glands were released. He is now doing really well and he has been moved into a larger enclosure. Once he has found his feet again, will be introduced him to our other antelope,” said CROW.

CROW said they are thankful to the member of the public who found him and could get him the help that he needed.

If you would like to sponsor Elly or the grey duiker, contact info@crowkzn.co.za.

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