{"id":794640,"date":"2026-10-07T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794640\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:38:09","slug":"bat-with-broken-wing-treated-with-laser-therapy-in-haddenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794640\/","title":{"rendered":"Bat with broken wing treated with laser therapy in Haddenham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A bat found with a broken wing has received laser therapy to help it recover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The serotine bat was found by a member of the public on a kerb in Witney, Oxfordshire, and taken to Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After having its wing repaired, the bat was given pain relief, antibiotics and laser therapy to help it heal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head vet Steve Smith said: &#8220;Once we&#8217;re confident the wing is strong enough, we&#8217;ll begin test flights to rebuild its strength and make sure it is ready to cope back in the wild.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bats.org.uk\/about-bats\/what-are-bats\/uk-bats\/serotine\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bat Conservation Trust,, external<\/a> the serotine is one of Britain&#8217;s largest bat species with a wing span between 320mm and 380mm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tiggywinkles, founded in 1978, treats 13,000 animals a year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bat found with a broken wing has received laser therapy to help it recover. The serotine bat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-794640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}