Highland Wildlife Rescue

24/12/2025

We wish a very merry Christmas to all of our wonderful volunteers, transporters, donors, sponsors and supporters.

We remain open throughout the festive period and can be reached on 07957 584817 🎄🌟

24/12/2025

ROMEO

We only rescue, rear and rehabilitate native wild species here at Highland Wildlife Rescue BUT before HWR opened, we had already committed to caring for this gorgeous boy. After 12 years of abuse, and 2 years of initial rescue care, we built him a large enclosure and promised to care for him, for the rest of his life.

If you've dropped off a patient, towels, food, auction fundraising items or picked up a calendar, chances are you've been impressed by his beauty.

He's also utterly adored by his sponsors Nicki, Carolyn, and Debbie - they provide for his care, food, and in-house camera monitoring system - he's definitely their boy too.

So let's answer any of your questions about him, his circumstances, his care and his life.

Pop any questions in the comments below and later today, with a festive Prosecco at hand, I'll answer them all 💚

22/12/2025

We have been very humbled by the incredible festive generosity we've received from people kindly donating to us over the last 3 weeks.

We've recieved donations in lieu of sending Christmas cards, donations for future sponsorships, regular annual festive donations, and a very kind donation in memorium from hoglet Sandi's finders.

With the Hogspital heating on 24/7 this really is a huge boost and we greatly appreciate every donation recieved.

💚💚 THANK YOU SO MUCH 💚💚

https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/highland-wildlife-rescue

21/12/2025

BLING

We're so happy when our patients enjoy their food!

After being found amongst a coil of rope in an outbuilding that's being cleared for a house move, BLING who is an adult, female Pipistrelle bat, needed to be checked over to see if she was injured and to assess her body condition.

Fortunately she just needs a couple of days of TLC and then she can be released while conditions remain mild.

She's endlessly fascinating to watch and a lovely patient to have in care 💚

20/12/2025

Thank you so much A9 Consulting Ltd. and ecologist Robyn, for choosing us as a very happy recipient of your £100 donation 💚

As we approach the festive season, we want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from A9 Consulting! 🎅🏻🎄

This Christmas we’ve chosen to spread kindness by donating £100 to a chosen charity on behalf of each employee. It’s our small way of giving back and supporting local causes.

We’re delighted to share that this year’s donations have gone to these amazing charities, all close to our hearts:
✨ New Start Highland
✨ Highland Wildlife Rescue
✨ Inspiring Young Voices
✨ Stonewall Scotland
✨ Munlochy Animal Aid
✨ Mikeysline

Thank you again to our incredible team for everything you do.

20/12/2025

FROSTY

Yay! Home for Christmas 🥳🎄

This mild spell has given us a chance to get a dozen of our hedgehog patients released back to the wild as far away as Ullapool, Carrbridge and Caithness.

FROSTY has gone back to her Golspie garden and is settling perfectly, and things are a bit quieter in the Hogspital with only 7 prickly patients in residence - a couple more are hoping to leave soon!

What a happy little hog this girl is, she went off into her house like a pro 💚

18/12/2025

JAX HOLLYWINGS

Shoron was alerted to this Jackdaw in her Golspie garden who appeared unharmed but wouldn't fly.

It can be difficult work out why birds are grounded but we know that there has to be a reason, and their inability to get off the ground puts them at increased risk of predation, injury, starvation and accident.

We got him here for a full check and were alarmed at how horribly thin he is. He seemed bright, was moving well, and passed his initial assessment with flying colours.

His introduction to a range of foods has to be slow, with small portions because we don't want to overwhelm his digestive system.

He's caged indoors for now because even though it's mild outside he just doesn't have any reserves to keep himself warm. Instead of perching overnight he snuggled into some cosy donated towels 💚

17/12/2025

You know that saying....."you dont have to be mad to work here...." well....to be on our board it might be compulsory!

This phenomenal group of amazing, committed individuals - Ash, Charly, Denise, Ellen and Kirstin (ignore the large inflatable squirrel 🤣) keep HWR working brilliantly by caring about the patients and me (the large inflatable squirrel) so much.

Most terrific trustees 💚

16/12/2025

HOLLY

This young lady has completely recovered from her Lungworm problems and is starting to gain weight at a good pace.

Now that her appetite is much improved she's loving the meaty cat food in jelly that is served up.

We feed a mixture of this and kitten "kibble" as the daily staples but have been known to add some insects for very fussy eaters or those whose appetites have stalled - food that moves can be very enticing if you have natural instincts to eat wriggly things.

Fortunately HOLLY is content with the cat food so no digging duties for me today. She certainly has the tools for the job once she's released - look at those claws!

15/12/2025

ENGELBERTHA

Meaning "shining angel" that's very festive, thank you to sponsor Matilda for naming her.

ENGELBERTHA is the third of our three sisters and along with CAROL and NOELLE, they have a little way to go before they're big enough to head back to the wild.

We've had a fabulous spell of mild weather that has enabled us to get lots of hedgehogs releases arranged, with some very committed garden guardians providing them with hedehog houses, lots of warm, dry bedding material, feed stations and supplementary feeding.

These sister just aren't big enough yet so we wait for them to reach their target weights and hope that another mild spell comes along at just the right time for them.

📷 ENGELBERTHA looking super prickly!

12/12/2025

CAROL

Another little girl spending the festive season with us, is CAROL, sister of HOLLY.

She's doing well but isn't big enough yet to be considered for release this side of Christmas.

This morning her enclosure was given the 5⭐️ HogBnB spritz by lovely Hogspital volunteer Cat, who has been regularly volunteering with for over a year and brings a wealth of experience from her regular job as an experienced Vet Nurse.

Every hedgehog patient gets a daily weigh-in, health check, treatment (when needed), new bed, fresh food and water before being left in peace to snooze all day.

Those claws you can see, will be fabulous for digging in the ground to find worms and other bugs - the staples of her wild diet. For now, she can put her tootsies up as dinner is served 💚

11/12/2025

NOELLE

Continuing our festive naming theme this little girl will be spending Christmas with us.

She's one of a few juveniles that are too small for us to consider releasing, even though temperatures are mild right now.

As things do get colder we have to keep the Hogspital toasty warm to avoid the prickly patients slipping into hibernation. Survival would be highly unlikely for juveniles weighing around 400g so our electricity bill promises to be an unwelcome gift!

❄️😬🥶🎁