Willows Hedgehog Rescue

Morning feeding all done, little one now named Tiny is now 25g gaining, Stan and Olly are coming on leaps and bounds at 190g Olly and 167 Stan. The weights seem to mimic the ordinal pair. Popey has again come back with a slight eye infection, we thought we had beat this. All the other hogs are doing well.

Another hog in coming this one Charlie found first thing at work today. Nothing like being work home with you is there?

A little female admitted tonight 310 grams, she has a bad tummy! Just checked her, she is sound asleep on the heat pad!

Charlie has just put another update on our little Tiny.

Have to say thank you to Miss V W. Thank you for the milk re placer, we are going though this quite quickly. Baby hog will start off with just 0.5ml then as our two fatties will progress to 10ml every feed. once there will start to have mash and not puree food (need teeth for this) but will still have MR added.

I am on night duty to night for tiny, weight is increasing yesterdays weigh in was 33 g wonder what tonights will be.... Now doubled the weight. We wll soon be stopping night feeds 27g to go then sleep all night....bliss

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Some time ago we had a hog in with Nero problems. When she first came in she couldnt eat for herself, This is a very small clip in her progress. Mira

just got back from the vets car boot, and came home to a new male. Been ill for a while, fluids and a nice clean warm place untill we have a poo sample.

Please if you are in the garden take care, watch the long grass, compost heap and bushes. It only takes a few minutes to check. It could save a life. Leave ground level water and some food under an upturned plastic tub.

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This fella came in completely collapsed at the start of May, he is going back home tonight... 1905D1 (no name)

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Another one has left for the big wide world ok Bromsgrove. Wonder what he is thinking with that expression, I am sure you lot can think of some good ones....

Sadley the hog that came in a few hours ago, didnt make it. Its so sad seeing how these small creature suffer. Please leave water and food out for them if you can.

Two hogs will be moved outside ready for their release later in the week. Little Tiny is now 40g, still way to small for his age but Tiny is still with us. Need to start looking at gardens again and secure ones. A little behind with this important job

Here's some positive news: A garden that one of our volunteers went to visit a while ago, phoned to tell me they had put a feeding station in, made holes bigger, made a hog home and guess what. Its worked, she now has regular visitors eating her food and even displayed some explicit behavior I could not possibly discuss on here ;-) She would still like to be a release site in the future.

We have got home from work to another box, another caddy for a car. These caddys are great as its a top opening so any injured Hedgehog can be placed in gentley, This time we have an address on the paper work so a thank you note on the way out tomorrow. Little Tiny is 50g now,,

Set of 5 babies in, starving and no idea how long mom has been dead. Covered in fly egg and a few small live maggots yuk. started to warm and feed tiny amounts until they can get used to food again. they are weeks old but only 60g. lost loads of their body fat.

The latest 4 hoglets

Its with the sadist of heart that little Tiny died a few days ago. We couldn't post as it was just too upsetting for us. Rescuing any animal has it heartaches and joys.

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Please its dry and hot again. WATER is needed for all wild aniamlas. Ground level for hedgehogs and other small animals is a must. This was one of our small displays yesterday. As you can see a small feeding station made from a small upturn plastic storage box. 4" hole x 4" a bowl of water and some food. Cost £2.00 benefit to a hedgehog priceless

Woundwort has come back today so we can finally release him. He has a slightly deformed foot but it doesnt seem to stop him from running off. Popeye will be booked into the vet next week now his weight has improved. Olly and Stan our two older hoglets/Juv are now both around 400g but still not eating solids properly . The 4 new inmates, whoops hoglets have all put some weight on, I think i have managed to get all maggots. fingers crossed.