About this season
Joanna is determined to spend her summer working at Wildlife Aid, one of the UK's leading wildlife hospitals, learning how she can help. With no special treatment, Joanna first must pass the 'smell test', starting with mucky cage and pen cleaning but hoping to progress to animal triage training, helping in the vet room and going out on rescues and releases.
Episodes (15)
1. Episode 1
Aired 6 January 2025 • 28 min
Joanna Page is pursuing her lifelong passion - volunteering at an animal rescue centre. Her induction day includes a big test in the fox pen and feeding a baby badger.
2. Episode 2
Aired 7 January 2025 • 27 min
A fox cub caught in netting is a tricky first rescue experience for Joanna as she continues her training at a busy wildlife centre. But she also gets to help with her first release.
3. Episode 3
Aired 8 January 2025 • 28 min
A magpie with a broken leg is an opportunity for Joanna to learn more skills, and to fall in love with birds, as she trains to be a volunteer at her local wildlife rescue centre.
4. Episode 4
Aired 9 January 2025 • 27 min
Actor Joanna Page continues her training at a local wildlife rescue centre, helping with the rehabilitation and release of a jackdaw, a wood mouse and a tiny vole.
5. Episode 5
Aired 10 January 2025 • 28 min
Joanna Page continues to grow her rescue, rehab and release skills with a tiny chick, a fox and some hoglets as she trains to be a wildlife rescue volunteer.
6. Episode 6
Aired 13 January 2025 • 27 min
A hedgehog, an owl and two tiny swift chicks are among the animals actor Joanna Page helps to treat as she trains to be a volunteer at her local wildlife rescue centre.
7. Episode 7
Aired 14 January 2025 • 28 min
A fledgling little owl is brought in, having been found on the ground. And Joanna's sent to rescue a hedgehog in the garden of a local resident, who's seen it behaving strangely.
8. Episode 8
Aired 15 January 2025 • 27 min
Joanna has her first experience of rehabilitating a bird of prey. At the other end of the scale, she learns how to scruff a mouse and proudly shows her family the video evidence.
9. Episode 9
Aired 16 January 2025 • 28 min
Joanna revisits the fox cubs that came in when she started her training at the wildlife rescue centre. She takes baby pigeons from triage to rehab to release back into the wild.
10. Episode 10
Aired 17 January 2025 • 27 min
As her training intensifies, Joanna Page helps x-ray a tiny bat with a possible fracture, checks over a rescued bunny and releases the fox cubs she's been following from the start.
11. Episode 11
Aired 20 January 2025 • 28 min
Joanna Page's training to be a wildlife rescue volunteer continues with two ten-day-old tawny owls, a red kite and the release of a rehabilitated urban fox.
12. Episode 12
Aired 21 January 2025 • 27 min
Joanna's wildlife training continues with her scruffing a lively fox on the vet room table, and rehabilitating and releasing a dove that was rescued from a burning building.
13. Episode 13
Aired 22 January 2025 • 27 min
As Joanna's summer volunteering at a wildlife rescue centre continues, she treats a badger with an injured foot, a hedgehog with netting caught around its neck and a wounded kestrel.
14. Episode 14
Aired 23 January 2025 • 28 min
Joanna's training ramps up with gull chick brought in by a member of the public, moving some badgers to a soft release site in the woods and being entrusted with some homecare.
15. Episode 15
Aired 24 January 2025 • 28 min
Joanna's training as a volunteer at a wildlife rescue centre comes to an emotional end with some final tests before she finds out whether all her hard work has paid off.