A study was repeated with inexperienced juvenile hedgehogs of Jersey,(where badgers are absent), and more than 75% survived for the whole of the six week study. One animal very sensibly moved swiftly to live near a local pub, another was found on the coast several weeks later over 3 miles (5km) away, feeding at food bowls put out for stray cats. The local hedgehog lady, Dru Burdon, has been caring for hundreds of sick and injured local hedgehogs and marking them when they were returned to the wild. Some of her animals have lived a t least a year following release, and one survived more than five years. Most, perhaps, all, would have died but for her help.
Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:54 pm