Hedwig's Hotel Hedgehog Rescue

22/09/2024

Anyone remember the Barton tors babies?

They came in weighing between 130 and 150g and have been with us a while.

We are happy to report that they were released to a lovely garden very close by weighing between 890 and 1200g

Good luck guys enjoy your freedom 😊

Ways to help are in the comments or the pinned post on this page 🦔

13/09/2024

Sorry we have been so quiet on here, we are still very busy 😕
We have waved goodbye to lots of hogs in the recent weeks,

The first picture is Daisy who was a larger girl who had Capillaria. After treatment it was arranged for her to go home but...... she gave birth the day before she was due to leave. She was released a few weeks ago.
We are currently caring for the babies and they are almost ready to go into the soft release pen.

Picture 2 is Angelus, he was a big boy on arrival, found in a hole in a garden. The hole was dug out for fencing. He was covered in mud. His treatment was basically a lot of baths which he wasn't keen on. He has the fluffiest face and skirt we have seen.
He also is only the second ever hog we have seen with fleas. After his first bath, they we all coming out of his left ear (loads of them) he was named by one of our volunteers and was released a few weeks ago.

The third picture is persil who was very small and skinny. Once big enough he went into the soft release pen and was released two weeks ago. He was named persil because he went for a jolly and had a nap in the washing bag 😂

The last picture is of 4 babies who were brought in due to being out in the day.
On arrival they were covered in fly strike and two of the hedwigs crew worked for several hours to remove all of the fly eggs before they hatched into maggots. These didn't actually have names but were known as the BBC gang due to being in the big blue cage not in any way related to the broadcasting company 😂
They went home with one of our volunteers on Wednesday.

Sadly we have also lost some, one was the girl who had the injured/deformed nose that you might have seen on here unfortunately she didn't make it. After her vet visit we gave her the medications, she was sounding better breathing wise but she stopped eating and passed away a few days after starting the meds.

Ways to help hedwigs are in the comments 😊

02/09/2024

Some of you might have seen the post from Burton at Bideford when they found a mum and hoglets in their cleaning cupboard.

They had no idea how they got in but we got the call on 15th August.

Happy to report that the babies have now started exploring outside of the nest area😊

They look well and very curious.

Obviously we are very much hands off and are only cleaning the dining area so I'm not sure on weights but here's a picture.

Ways to donate are on our pinned post and our website which I will put in the comments.

28/08/2024

Evening all,
Still really busy here and we are low on wet cat food again 😮 just so many mouths to feed.

Also looking for volunteers for a Friday if anyone is interested, I literally only have one person on a Friday and a minimum of 2 would be good.

I have lost count of how many we have in but let's just say we don't have many spaces. (I think we are still over 50, even though we have had a few go home).

This is one of our newest intakes, she is an older girl with a very odd deformed nose.
She does have an infection which is being treated.

She went to the vet and has been given stronger antibiotics so we are hoping for a good outcome. As you can see from the photo she does have some ticks but rather than stress her we are removing them over time rather than in one go.

She also goes in the nebuliser several times a day and is also on pain medication.

Vet visit today £124 😞

Ways to help are in our pinned post on this page and also on our website, Facebook seems to not let me put the details on the post so I will add them in the comments a bit later.

21/08/2024

Another call for volunteers to start asap.

We are well over capacity with not enough help
There are a couple starting in a few weeks but still not quite enough.

The basic upshot is that if we don't get enough help we will definitely have to limit numbers we can take which will mean we will have to turn away some in desperate need of help.

Please get in touch if you can spare a few hours. We are here 7 days a week and are very busy, when quiet it might be an hour when busy it could be 3-4 hours.

Message me Tina Hawkins 🦔

21/08/2024

Please vote for Hedwig's Hotel Hedgehog Rescue 🤞

Please go to the original post and vote for hedwigs hotel hedgehog rescue on the original post

August Giveaway for Wildlife Rescues 🙂

NB: Brambles Pet & Wildlife will NOT contact anyone who makes a nomination. If you are contacted saying you are a winner, it will not be us so please DO NOT engage with any such communication.

5 Wildlife Rescues can each win:-
🦔 4 bags of Brambles 2Kg Crunchy Hedgehog Food
🦔 4 bags of Brambles 1.3Kg Semi-moist Hedgehog Food
🦔 24 tins of Brambles Meaty Hedgehog Food

Nominate your favourite Rescue to win, competition ends Thursday 22nd August at 11.59pm.
Like and Share to spread the news 😃

20/08/2024

Good morning all, since we closed to new admissions we have had several more in. (So I guess we aren't really closed 🤣)

Thank you all for the donations we have received and to local businesses, Morrisons, Creature comforts, braunton co-op and Magpie & Hook

We are however very low on wet cat food.
For example yesterday we used around 50 sachets 😮

In addition to 6 tins of the royal canin puppy starter mousse for the youngsters.

We are also low on the royal canin mother and baby cat biscuits.

So if you are able, currently food would be most welcome ☺️🦔

Video is Ben self anointing taken by one of our volunteers ❤️

16/08/2024

Please vote for us here at Hedwig's Hotel Hedgehog Rescue
This would help pay our electricity bill for a few months and aid us continuing our work with these spikeys 🦔

Nominate a charity for a Movement for Good award now.

11/08/2024

For the month of August we will donate £1 from every sale of EX39 clothing.
Hedwig's Hotel Hedgehog Rescue
Please visit this wonderful chairty to learn more on how to help the hedgehogs.

09/08/2024

Busy, busy, busy.

Yesterday we had a mum and 4 hoglets brought in from the Burton art gallery who were found in the cleaning cupboard 😮

Today a hoglet weighing 116g

And another one it's way from torrington.

We are way over capacity now and not enough volunteers to help so unfortunately we are going to have to stop taking in new intakes for a bit.

Most of the residents we now have came in tiny so they won't be ready to leave for a while.

Also just noticed that we are down to only a few sachets and one tin of food🥺

We are definitely in need of cat food, wet and dry if anyone would like to send us some or bring it around 🤞

05/08/2024

We have waved goodbye to quite a few residents recently, I will update on individual hogs at some point but at the moment my recent posts are not being allowed 😔 not sure why.

Tonight however it was Pebbles and a hedgehog from Bradworthy who have found their freedom.
Both were a fairly good size but were poorly 😔

They are both now healthy and we wish them the best lives and enjoy their new hog house's 🦔

Picture of our newest hoglet ❤️

31/07/2024

🦔 volunteering opportunity 🦔

We have found ourselves in the position of needing more volunteers, mainly for Monday - Friday.

It would be a few hours a day so it could be 1 person doing all week or several people doing 1 day a week.

Some of our petroc students have finished and two of our regular volunteers have other commitments so now have reduced availability.

If this is something you are interested in please message Tina Hawkins to arrange a visit and a chat.

Video of Ben for attention ☺️

29/07/2024

Well, we have been busy and not just with hedgehogs!

Some of you who have brought us donations or hedgehogs would have heard us talking about a wall of hutches which was basically a dream we were heading for. Well it's happened!

A brilliant donation from a brilliant couple paid for all of the wood ❤️

Carl has built them made to measure and with inserts so that we can either have bigger ones or smaller ones depending on need at the time.

They are working out really well and we have been using them for a week.
Photos are before and after 🦔

I'm hoping to do some updates on new residents and recent releases soon as well as updates on some of our other prickles.

We currently have over 40 residents and a lot of them are only a few weeks old so as always donations are gratefully received, we are using 6 tins of royal canin puppy starter mousse and 28 sachets of food a day.

You can donate via our pinned post, on our website www.hedwigshotel.co.uk
Or in person

22/07/2024

Tune into radio Devon tomorrow morning around 10:20.
Savannah is doing an interview about Hedwig's Hotel Hedgehog Rescue on the breakfast show. 🦔🦔🦔

20/07/2024

Good afternoon,
A bit of exciting news from one of our residents.
Daisy has had 3 babies (we think 3)

Daisy came in from one of our regular people who brings them in after seeing them on the camera.

She had some internal parasites which she had treatment for and was gaining weight nicely.
As she had been with us for that we thought if she was pregnant she might not have time to make a nice nest so we were planning on her going home on Tuesday after a clear faecal on the Saturday.

However, on the Monday we could hear peeping coming from her hutch. We have to be very hands off if there is a nursing mum so it's basically very limited cleaning but extra feeding so mum has enough energy to feed her hoglets.

It's now several weeks later and daisy has let them come out a little bit one at a time, just briefly and then she guides them back.
Today she brought one out to the front ☺️ I think she's ready to show them off, very proud mum smiling for the camera.

Excuse the mess, as I said minimal contact but this part was cleaned literally 20 minutes before.🫣

Please donate if you can, either through our pinned post on this page or our website ☺️

https://www.hedwigshotel.co.uk/donations/

This will take you to either PayPal or bank transfer ☺️

14/07/2024

Good news release post,

This week both Jake and Squelch have been released. These have been residents for a while,

Squelch got himself stuck down a post hole and was covered in hard mud
He had tried so hard to get out he had worn his nails and the tips of his toes off.
After treatment he had to stay as we had to make sure he would be able to survive in the wild and be able to forage.

Jake's story is similar, minus the mud but he initially looked like he didn't have any eyes. This was purely from dehydration. He got himself stuck at a school and was unable to get out so also had worn toes and nails.
After treatment he also had to have claws to be able to forage.

Happily, they have now both been released which is brilliant as we weren't sure this would be possible.

The video is from the release garden and Squelch is out and Jake joins him.

Good luck Squelch and Jake

As always you can donate via our pinned post through PayPal or bank transfer and on our website www.hedwigshotel.co.uk

12/07/2024

Please follow the link and vote for Hedwig's Hotel Hedgehog Rescue to possibly be drawn to win a monetary prize

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/BXHg6Kfnk4b3dCeF/

29/06/2024

Sorry there's been no updates 😔 we are very busy at the moment.

We have had quite a few in the last few days and many of them need extra time spent with them.
We have 2 on a nebuliser (20 minutes each a few times a day), many on medication and babies to feed by syringe frequently (some 2-3 hourly and some 6-8 hourly) in addition to the normal cleaning, washing and drying the bedding
We currently have 37 residents,
17 of these are hoglets.

We are running low on wet cat food, royal canin puppy starter mousse, royal canin baby dog milk, 1ml syringes, green 5/8 needles for medications and microscope slides.

Any help is very much appreciated ☺️🦔

05/01/2024

So last year we had a phenomenal amount of babies, more than we have ever had before. Most of them needed to be in an incubator and they all must have specialist food.
Their food is very expensive as are our electricity bills.
Everything we raise goes directly to the care of the hedgehogs.
Anything you can give no matter how big or small is greatly appreciated ☺️🦔

Weʼre raising money to Fund Hedwig’s Hotel Through Spring. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

04/01/2024

Exciting news.....

If you are looking for something to do tomorrow (Friday 5th January)

We are on radio Devon at 10:20!
(Well, Savannah is I'm at work)

02/01/2024

Wow, what a year we have had!
We have been able to upgrade from a two berth caravan to a big shed, have been able to get better housing, more incubators and have had loads of hogs in and out of rescue. ☺️

We are a very small rescue, with mainly 2 of us every day but this year since the summer we have also had volunteers. We have 6 who come in on different days so some days there are 3 of us. 3 of these are currently studying animal care at petroc and need hours with animals as part of their course.

We are very proud to be able to aid students to get the hours they need ☺️ in addition to them being hands on with microscope work and other daily things we do.

Now for our numbers, in 2023 we have had a total of 146 hedghogs, unfortunately of these 22 didn't make it 😞 so we have a success rate of around 85% which is pretty good but we obviously would like this to be 100%

It is hard work, not just the cleaning but all of the washing, medication, making sure we don't run out of items especially food, medication, laundry liquid and other things you don't think of (such as gloves, microscope slides, syringes and loads of other things)

The donations you guys do for us is amazing and I know we are asking for things quite a lot, without you we couldn't do this and because of you, 124 hedghogs are still around. It costs around £50 per hedgehog to rescue and get them ready for release and that's without vet visits and medications.

And I know I always look tired especially in baby season when I syringe feed every 2 hours then have to get up to do my actual full time job🤣 but it's definitely worth it when they get to be released back into the wild. 🦔

Happy new year to all of you
And of course if you would like to donate, details are on our pinned post on the page.

31/12/2023

A big thank you to Magpie & Hook in Bideford for their donation of kitten biscuits today, they will be gratefully chowed upon by the residents still on the lower weight end ❤️🦔🦔🦔

And thank you to our supporters who have sent us the temperature control heat pads, they will be put to use in a home made housing to make it into an incubator for really sick or tiny hogs☺️

29/12/2023

Another local rescue has just posted this, it is on offer for a limited time and can be used to make an incubator for less than the £900 to buy one!

If anyone would like to get us one it would be very much appreciated ☺️

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29/12/2023

If you are partying on New year's eve, please be safe and watch how you toddle home, unlike this little guy who was recently released in our garden 🤣 about 1 minute 25 seconds in

We are still open and caring for the hogs we have in residence.

With the warmer weather, we are still getting new hogs in and usually, it's spring when we get really busy but who knows when that'll start in 2024.

Please donate if you can.

WAYS TO HELP HEDWIG’S HOTEL

Our Amazon Wishlist:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/D2BP1EIYPC1X?ref_=wl_share

PayPal:
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Account Name: Hedwig’s Hotel
Sort Code: 30-98-97
Account Number: 64154863

If you live locally, physical donations are also accepted, especially old newspapers, meaty cat or dog food and fleece blankets!

24/12/2023

Merry Christmas to you all from the team at Hedwig's Hotel Hedgehog Rescue

It's with your help we can get these prickly, grumpy and sometimes funny from sick, orphaned or injured to big and strong and back into the wild.

Thank you all for your support over the last year, it's because of your donations that we can do what we do.

18/12/2023

Busy still 😮 but in recent weeks we have waved goodbye to, Barney, hazel, pond, parky, Ebeneezer and the gunstone crew (tank, gr***de, gunner, marshall and fusilier).

Do you all remember the gunstone/ cold harbour babies? We had a mission on social media to find them, well they went from between 96-111g and reached over 600g. They battled lungworm, were hand fed and one survived a prolapse too.

We wish them all the best life now they are all released ❤️🦔

Pictures are of the gunstone crew, on admission and on release 😊

14/12/2023

A big thank you to Bideford and district angling club for the donation from their Christmas competition.
🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔

05/12/2023

Please go to the original post and vote for Hedwig's Hotel Hedgehog Rescue 🦔

Wildlife Rescue Giveaway 😃

NB: Brambles Pet & Wildlife will NOT contact anyone who makes a nomination. If you are contacted saying you are a winner, it will not be us so please DO NOT engage with any such communication.

5 Wildlife Rescues can each win:-
🦔4 bags Brambles 2Kg Crunchy Hedgehog Food
🦔 4 bags Brambles Semi-moist Hedgehog Food
🦔 24 tins of Brambles Meaty Hedgehog Food

Nominate your favourite Rescue to win, competition ends Thursday 7th Dec at 11.59pm. Like and Share to spread the news 😃

03/12/2023

Thank you to everyone who has sent donations ☺️ we really couldn't do it without you all❤️
We are still in need of royal canin mother and baby cat biscuits and royal canin puppy starter mousse if anyone can help.

27/11/2023

It's that time again 🦔 still full and we are on our last tray of royal canin puppy mousse and royal canin mother and baby cat biscuits 😮 we currently have 9 hedghogs on these foods, if anyone could donate any it would be very much appreciated 😊

The photo is of 3 brought in from Croyde a while ago who benefited from the last hoglet food drive, all now having put on a good amount of weight but not quite ready for the soft release pens yet.

Our electricity bills are also very high, especially as we are now on 4 loads of washing and drying daily because we have so many residents in addition to the heating for the hogspital.

Any donations big or small are an enormous help for our prickly patients.

WAYS TO HELP HEDWIG’S HOTEL

Our Amazon Wishlist:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/D2BP1EIYPC1X?ref_=wl_share

PayPal:
https://www.paypal.me/savannahjhawkins

Account Name: Hedwig’s Hotel
Sort Code: 30-98-97
Account Number: 64154863

If you live locally, physical donations are also accepted, especially old newspapers, meaty cat or dog food and fleece blankets!