Hedwig's Hotel Hedgehog Rescue, 53 Stucley Road, Bideford (2025)

11/09/2025

Just a quick update, here are a couple of our recent releases,

The 5 came in as tiny hoglet's when they were found after their nest was disturbed and mum got spooked and never returned. They were released with one of our volunteers and have a lovely garden to explore.

Then we have a beautiful lady called daisy who had a wound on the top of her head, likely caused by a strimmer. All healed nicely and in time for breeding season.

We still have a lot of hedgehogs and it's now autumn juvenile season so we have got quite a few babies who are orphans. This will mean they are unlikely to meet release weight in time to be released before it gets too cold so they are likely to be here until spring.

This time of year, most intakes will be here for months due to weather and sizes.
Of course they need feeding, probably medication, vet visits etc.
The heating will also be kicking in which will add even more to are already expense electricity bill.

Going forward we are also looking at upgrading our electricity supply and water access to the hogspital.

So any donations gratefully received,
You can donate to PayPal or bank transfer via our pinned post on the page or through our website.

I would like to thank everyone who has donated to us already and those who have set up a monthly donation, it really does mean a lot and we couldn't do this without you all.

07/09/2025

Good afternoon, if you live in londonderry around Bridge plats way in Bideford , could you please keep an eye out for baby hedgehogs.
We received a call that a mum and 4 babies were found in the garden, unfortunately mum was deceased. When we arrived 2 of the babies had wandered away and despite looking in gardens close by, we were unable to locate them.

I have posted in Bideford but the poor thins still haven't been found 😢

If found please contact us at Hedwig's Hotel Hedgehog Rescue

Theiir chances of survival are low if not taken in to rescue as they should still be having mums milk.

Please share, the more people who know the better the chance of being found

25/08/2025

Still busy but I thought I should do an update.

If we have a hedgehog you have brought to us, keep an eye out for messages 😊 we have several ready to go home ❤️

This is Pixie who was all by herself found in Little Torrington.

She is being syringe fed as she has decided not to eat by herself 😕

This video is of her self anointing which she has just learnt to do.

We still have 65 hedgehogs and it is coming into autumn juvenile season 😮 which means although we are still closed, we are likely to get more🙄

Please donate if you can, all donations are currently going on food as we are getting through a lot 😭

You can donate via our pinned post at the top of this page which has our bank details, PayPal details and website address.

13/08/2025

A bit of a happier post today,
This little one came in from West Buckland and he is struggling.

He only weighs 96g and has been here a while.

He doesn't seem to want to gain weight 😔 all of his samples have been clear.

He has suffered with prolapses which seem to be under control now 😊

He is currently on antibiotics and pain medication.

The pain medication is given orally and he loves it. This little video is after he had his medication yesterday and he's just playing with the empty syringe.

Quite a little character 😂

Donations are still very welcome, we no have absolutely no space, all of our incubators and hutches are full.

You can donate via our pinned post at the top of this page or via our website.

12/08/2025

Sad post, those of you who saw our post on Tiny,
Sadly she passed away. 😢

We are gutted, she was with us for 2 weeks, overnight feeds and initially all seemed to be going well but a couple of days ago she was very lethargic and was struggling. Then lost her fight.

Unfortunately with hedgehogs so small the chances of survival are low, another Rescue gave us a suggestion which we did (thank you Project Prickles. Hedgehog Rescue -Southole) but sadly it wasn't to be😢

Fly high Tiny 🦔

10/08/2025

It was suggested to me that I should put up a post showing the amount of food we go through every day.

Its actually quite scary when you see it laid out 😱

Here's the main list:

60 sachets of wet cat food

8 tins of Royal canin puppy starter mousse

1/2 a tub of adult cat biscuits

1/2 a tub of royal canin mother and babycat kitten biscuits

We also use Royal canin mother and baby dog milk formula but that's hard to show as its a powder mix that we then add vitamins to (abidec baby, unfortunately we are having difficulty getting it)

This is the the reason we always need food 😂

All donations are used for the rescue, either for food, medications, vet visits, electricity (3 loads of washing and drying daily, incubators, heating, air conditioning), microscope slides, gloves, syringes the list goes on.....

Please donate if you can, if all of our followers were able to donate £1 a month it would truly help us out a lot.

Any donations we are truly grateful for, 1 sachet, 50p believe me it all adds up.

We have 36 hutches and 8 incubators, when we have a group come in together they can share, so like now some hutches are triple with multiple hoglet's in.

We are considering the sponsor a hotel room but as its so busy I just haven't had time to sort it 😂

Donations can be made via our pinned post, this has bank details, PayPal details and the amazon wishlist.

Thank you all for your support and the donations we have been receiving, you are all amazing 😊🦔🦔🦔

06/08/2025

Still full 😩
But thought I'd better put up a bit of an update so you all know we are still here 😂

We have 68 hedgehogs in house and 10 out in soft release.
Many of the ones in house are small so they will be here for a while yet.

The smallest we currently have is tiny, she was found after a robot lawnmower had been used and she was all alone.

She has been here a little over a week, weighing 21g, she is currently 27g. She is syringe fed a specialist formula hourly at first (yes day and night).

Prognosis is fairly low due to being only a day or 2 old when found as she wouldn't have had much of mums colostrum but we are trying really hard with her.

Lack of sleep and being so busy is very much noticed😂 so much so, updates are very much on the back burner 🤣

We do have some who will hopefully be released soon, if you have any with us currently please drop me a text, I have texted for a few who are ready but not had replies but with how busy we are I do need the spaces. 😊

We are also due to renew our insurance in a few weeks (public liability etc) if anyone would like to donate towards that.

Also, the hogspital could benefit from a working sink and the electrics looking at (nothing wrong but maybe wired in better) if any of you lovely people could help with that it would be amazing.

As always please donate if you can,
We are very low on wet cat food in jelly and are getting through 8 tins of Royal canin puppy starter mousse a day😮

WAYS TO HELP HEDWIG’S HOTEL

Our Amazon Wishlist:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3QB4FSSB0NXLU?ref_=wl_share

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

Bank account:
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 food and fleece blankets!

20/07/2025

Still extremely full and still closed to new intakes.

This is Shelby Rose's baby coming out for dinner 😊
Shelby came in poorly and out in the day, she gave birth while here and is a brilliant mummy.

We currently have 73 residents, capacity is 36 so we are more than double therefore very busy all the time.

Many of the residents are very young, still having specialist formula and puppy mousse.

I have updated our amazon list to add blue roll, we are using between 1 and 2 rolls a day 😮

We also use just over 40 sachets of cat food, 6 tins of puppy mousse in addition to royal canin mother and baby cat biscuits and dry cat biscuits.

Thank you all who have sent us items so far, if you can donate anything at all we will be extremely grateful,
To donate please see our amazon in the pinned post, you can also donate via bank transfer or through PayPal,

14/07/2025

Still currently closed to new intakes 😔

Thank you all who have sent food over you really don't know how much we appreciate it

Here's a short video of one of our current mummy's with her litter of 4 having a feed. The mess is from her original nest that consisted of leaves, twigs and unfortunately plastic dog waste bags. She has cleaned up and moved out all of the plastic now.

We are still in need of food as always including food for all of our youngsters especially royal canin puppy starter mousse. We are currently using around 4 tins a day and 40 pouches of cat food in addition to dry cat biscuits.

If you would like to donate, please see the pinned post with bank details, PayPal details and our amazon wish list.

29/06/2025

Sadly we are temporarily closed to new intakes,
We are full so it's kind of one out one in at the moment.

We really don't like doing this but with so many orphan babies and hedgehogs coming in daily we just don't have any more spaces 😢

If you have a hedgehog needing help please contact the bhps website or the help wildlife website who will be able to direct you to other available rescues.

Very sorry but we only have so many rooms available for our residents. 🦔🦔🦔

Please support us if you can via our amazon wishlist or through our website
Details are on our pinned post on our page.

28/06/2025

We are incredibly busy at the moment and are in need of more volunteers, currently we have Tuesdays and Thursdays available but also sickness and holiday cover.
If interested please pm me Tina Hawkins.

We are also low on wet cat food.

Our numbers are rising steadily, 48 at the moment, 20 babies, 28 adults but 4 of the babies are with mums.

The photo is of 7 of our orphans taken by one of our volunteers while having their living quarters cleaned and the colour is for identification purposes only for weighing. By the time they are released the colour will not be visible.

Please message if you can offer some volunteering hours 😊 this involves cleaning, weighing and feeding the hogs.

Please donate if you can either through our amazon wish list on the pinned post here or via our website. Alternatively items can be dropped off to us.

Thank you all for your support 🦔

19/06/2025

Do hedgehogs dream?
Obviously no one knows however, I decided to take a little video of our 5 orphans the other night and if you watch until the end, the baby at the back is flicking his tail and it looks like he's having a bit of a run 😊

Sorry about the rubbish video, I am no camera man😂

These are 1 that came from a local vet, he is called Tiny Tim and 4 other orphans from the Bideford area.

In total we currently have 13 babies, 9 are orphans and 4 are with mums. We also have 2 hedgehogs that are possibly pregnant. (This is where a scan machine would be incredibly helpful)
When we think a hedgehog could be pregnant, we need to make sure she is housed where we can open the hutch into a double or triple space.

If you would like to donate please see our pinned post or website.

As with human babies hoglet's are expensive 🦔🦔🦔😊😊

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