Hedgehog Haven Rescue

21/04/2024

24/03/2024

Some important advice 🦔♥️

23/03/2024

🙏 PLEASE!... If you see a hedgehog like this no matter what time of day, DONT IGNORE IT.
**PICK IT UP!
**BRING IT INDOORS!
**PLACE IN A HIGH SIDED BOX WITH AN OLD TOWEL TO HIDE UNDER IN A QUIET WARM ROOM!
**OFFER A SHALLOW DISH OF WATER ONLY-NO FOOD!
**CONTACT YOUR LOCAL RESCUE!
With temperatures on the rise, hedgehogs are starting to wake up from hibernation but it can take 48hrs to fully reboot so you may just see a hedgehog lying around like this one.
Please don't walk by...
Please save a life.

06/03/2024

ORPHAN SEASON.
Found a baby animal in need of help?🐇🦡🦊🐥🐣

When it comes to saving the life of an orphaned animal a wildlife rescue depends, primarily, in the finder providing the first most important stage in critical care – WARMTH. The most common cause of death in an orphan is hypothermia; killing the animal faster than dehydration, or the lack of food. Hatchling birds, and newborn mammals, are unable to regulate their own body temperatures and are therefore dependant on their mother's body heat to keep them warm. Once a tiny orphan becomes hypothermic it's very often too late. Therefore, before contacting a wildlife rescue, be sure to provide the orphan with supportive warmth. A towel or soft fleece covering, just on its own, will not be sufficient in keeping the animal warm; an additional heat source needs to be supplied, either in the form of a wrapped hot water bottle, or a sock filled with uncooked rice and microwaved for a minute. A gentle warmth is what is required, so it's very important to keep checking that the heat source isn't becoming too hot.

To ensure your orphan stands the very best chance of survival; please, ALWAYS, take the animal directly to a wildlife rescue and, NEVER, attempt to rear it yourself. It is also very important to NOT give either fluids, or food to the orphan.

09/02/2024

Good morning all

With cub season at our doors we have put together something rather special to help you if you by chance come across a fox cub or cubs.

A huge thank you to Ollie Hood for getting this together and an even bigger thank you to all those involved who are all mentioned on the poster itself😍🦊

Cuan Wildlife Rescue
Foxangelsfoundation
Wildlife Welfare
Moonstone Rescue
Vale Wildlife Hospital & Rehabilitation Centre
The Greenwich Wildlife Network
The Fox Rescuers

25/01/2024

🐇 With Spring fast approaching we are anticipating the arrival of lots of baby animals, so we wanted to share some advice on leverets (baby hares). Unfortunately, we admit leverets every year who have been picked up by well-meaning people who believe they've been abandoned.

Leverets are born fully furred with their eyes open, and mother hares will leave their young hidden in long grass for the majority of the day, only returning to feed them a couple times. If you come across any leverets on their own, please don't pick them up unless they are in immediate danger! It's unlikely they've been abandoned and by picking them up you could be taking them away from their mother.

If you find a leveret and you're concerned it may be injured or orphaned, please don't touch, and call us or your nearest wildlife rescue BEFORE interfering. Wild animals do so much better when reared by their own kind. Thank you ❤

18/07/2023

Hedgehog Friendly Fencing! 🦔 💚

This summer, join our nationwide call for fencing companies to help hedgehogs.

We want to see more fencing with hedgehog highways as standard, and we'd love your help!

We’ve created template letters that you can send to local and national fencing companies. Companies all over Britain are starting to offer – and we’d love to see more. 🏡 🚪

Find out more 👉 hedgehogstreet.org/hedgehog-friendly-fencing

is a joint campaign run by us and British Hedgehog Preservation Society

12/05/2023

If you're not sure about a hedgehog in your garden, please phone your local rescue. They can guide you to make sure you are doing everything that the hedgehog needs before getting to the rescue 🦔

18/03/2022

PLEASE, BE NEST AWARE! 🐣🐥

Every year, without fail, we get the calls…… “Our tree surgeon has just cut down a tree and there's a nest with eggs/chicks. Our gardener has been clearing the brambles and exposed an active nest. Our roofers have left a nest of young birds on our hedge.” The sad stories of needlessly destroyed, or exposed nests, are endless. And, overstretched wildlife rescues have to pick-up these criminal offences.

The Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981 makes it very clear:-
🐦It's a criminal offence to take, damage or destroy the nest of ANY wild bird, and that includes pigeons and gulls, while it's in use or being built.
🐣To intentionally take, or destroy, the egg/s of any wild bird.

ALL professional tree surgeons, gardeners and roofers are familiar with this Act. If you employ somebody to carry out work during the nesting season; either on your roof, or garden, they must first conduct a survey to ensure there are NO ACTIVE NESTS! If any active nest is found the work will need to be delayed until the young have fledged the nest. DON'T employ anybody who doesn't carry out an initial survey….they're the types who will just take your money and run!! Breaking the law means nothing to these non-professional people, and leaving fragile lives to die slowly is certainly not going to keep them up at night!

07/03/2022

10/12/2021

Let's talk hibernation!

Hibernation generally occurs when temperatures get below 5°c for a week or more. When hedgehogs hibernate their body slows, their organs slow and their heart rate drops to around 5 beats per minute.

If you do see a hedgehog that looks underweight, please don't try and overwinter yourself, stress of containment causes the body’s natural amount of safe parasites to multiply leading to a sick hog.

Continue to leave food and water accessible all year round, not all hogs go into hibernation. when the ground freezes, they lose their normal diet of insects and this is where they then struggle.

To shop hedgehog food, follow the link >> https://www.spikesfood.co.uk/shop/

05/12/2021

Not all hedgehogs hibernate find out more here https://www.gracethehedgehog.co.uk/hibernation/

25/04/2021

Hi everyone
It's been an emotional few weeks at the rescue
Overwhelmed with your continued support thankyou very much 💖
44 successful releases so far 💖 more information to follow and pictures bare with us
Sadly 3 had to put to sleep due to devastating and fatal injuries by strimmers!!!!
I would appreciate you sharing this vital message to warn as many people as possible to please check first for hedgehogs' before using these "murder machines"
3 precious innocent hedgehogs have been too seriously injured to save in a week 💖
Plus 4 new arrivals in a matter of days are receiving critical care treatment for injuries caused by strimmers
The weather is beautiful and being in your gardens is so special especially at the moment please consider and share it with your wildlife
By day:
Clean and top up bird feeders and supply fresh water everyday they need to drink and bathe
By night:
Top up your hedgehogs' feeding stations with kitten biscuits, cat food and clean fresh water
Warm/hot weather hedgehogs' really need water to prevent dehydration
Thankyou very much for caring for our endangered hedgehogs' and wildlife and enjoy this beautiful weather in your gardens sharing with your family and friends

26/03/2021

Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond my control Hedgehog Haven Rescue has closed its doors.
It’s been a struggle financially, especially during Covid. Fundraising has been near on impossible.
The page will be still available for advice and posts.
I’m still helping Hedgehogs and all other animals where I can!
Thanks for following and your support over the years.
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