Northumbrian Hedgehog Rescue

24/04/2024

Benton was found by the children of Benton Dene School in their grounds during the day. He’s getting warmed up in one of our incubators.

23/04/2024

This is Twinning, named after his rescuers’ favourite tea. He was found with an injury to his nose in Darlington. His rescuers travelled all the way to Longframlington to get him the help he needed.

22/04/2024

This week we released 22 hedgehogs. On Sunday we admitted 5.

21/04/2024

This is Hueey. He was found walking across the road in Wooler. Poor Hueey had a large abscess which needed to be cleaned out. He was given pain relief and antibiotics and is resting in a warm incubator.

20/04/2024

The rescue received a call from a lovely young lady, Ashley from Blaydon, whose dogs had found a hedgehog caught in barbed wire. One of our volunteers, Julia, went to help but unfortunately her wire cutters were not sufficient for the job. Ashley went to a nearby building site to recruit help and soon the hedgehog was free, although the wire was still through its leg. Once back at the rescue it was given pain relief before being taken to the vets. Sadly, it was discovered the barbed wire had caused many internal injuries as well as the obvious external ones, and there was no alternative but to put the hedgehog to sleep. We're extremely grateful to Ashley and Julia for enabling us to offer immediate assistance in getting the hedgehog the help he so desperately needed.

18/04/2024

During the awful weather we were experiencing a couple of weeks ago, we received a call from Richard in Heaton who had spotted a hedgehog lying in a puddle on its side in Heaton Park. Following our advice, he went back to the park to collect the hedgehog and took it home, placing it in a box with a towel and a warm hot water bottle. Jen, one of our volunteers, collected the hedgehog, who by now had been called Bobbi, and brought him to us. Bobbi had clearly sustained an injury from a strimmer, which is now being treated accordingly, and is feeling a great deal warmer and more
comfortable, thanks to Richard not just walking by, but taking responsibility to help an animal in desperate need. Thank you so much Richard.

17/04/2024

Yesterday we were a brought a hedgehog that had suffered a fatal strimmer injury. The poor hedgehog, Lance, was so badly injured that he was taken immediately to the vets where he had to be put to sleep. Luckily Lance was found by Jonathan and was brought straight to us. Nobody in the close vicinity of where Lance was found had been strimming, so he had obviously travelled some distance with horrific injuries before being rescued. Please be vigilant when out in your garden and take a moment to look out for hedgehogs before using any tools / machinery.

15/04/2024

Pip and Snaffles came back to the rescue today for their check up. When we have hedgehogs in foster care, they come back to the rescue for a check up to ensure they are fit and healthy for release.

14/04/2024

It is with great joy that we are able to announce our lovely Toyah was released back to her home after making a full recovery.

13/04/2024

Izzy on the day she was being released. She looks so relaxed and comfortable!

12/04/2024

🦔Friday Fact🦔 It’s coming to the time of year when hoglets arrive, with a typical litter size of 5 young 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔❤️.
PLEASE CHECK FOR NESTS PRIOR TO GARDENING!
Don’t touch any babies unless they are sick or injured - if this is the case seek immediate advice from a specialist hedgehog rescue. Thanks!

11/04/2024

Two of our hedgehogs required Veterinary attention this week and were taken up to Powburn as arranged. Whilst there, a gentleman was handing in two leverets who also needed expert help. Following the best advice given to the man by Cheviot Vets, he then offered to support a local animal charity and the practice recommended us. £50 was immediately paid onto our veterinary account which is absolutely wonderful. Very many thanks to the gentleman for such an amazing offer.

11/04/2024

🦔Thankful Thursday update 🦔
We received 2 deliveries of Whiskas poultry in jelly. One came from Debbie and the other without a name.
🦔❤️🦔❤️THANK YOU 🦔❤️🦔❤️

10/04/2024

Jackson was found in a garden by the family's dog. He is now safe and warm at the rescue.

09/04/2024

We were lucky to be able to release more hedgehogs this weekend. Some of those released were Fred who went to Wooler and Jack, Pumpkin and Elvira who went to Seghill. We also have been sent photos of some of our previous releases enjoying their time visiting the feeding station in Sandra's garden in Whitley Bay.

08/04/2024

🦔🦔Monday Magic 🦔🦔 Thanks to Border Reivers Archaeology for your additional donation to cover setting up our new website. We are very grateful ❤️🦔❤️🦔❤️

06/04/2024

Hedgehogs do like to take a dip in the water bowl! Picture courtesy of ‘the future is unmown’

05/04/2024

🦔Friday Fact🦔 Recently released Edna has found herself a mate and they’ve been very ‘busy’😉!! Hopefully in around 35 days (the length of a hedgehog pregnancy) we’ll see some hoglets arriving🤞🏾. Here they are together ❤️💙

04/04/2024

A big thank you to Jane and Sandra for the BACS transfer from the sale of their candles.

03/04/2024

With so many releases last week, we had a lot of deep cleaning to do. While we clean all of our cages every day, every time a hedgehog is released, their cage needs to have a deep clean ready for the arrival of another hedgehog. All of the joins, corners and hinges get a thorough clean.

02/04/2024

A big thank you to Lesley for the Puppy training pads from Amazon. These are brilliant when we need to use our incubators. Thank you also to Gemma and Elizabeth for dropping off newspapers. Every volunteer uses so much every week so it is always much appreciated. Thank you again to Elizabeth for her donation when she dropped off the papers. We are so grateful for your thoughtfulness.

01/04/2024

With the drier weather last week, we were able to release 50 hedgehogs back to their homes.

31/03/2024

🐣Happy Easter Members 🐣
We hope you are all enjoying the dry weather, here’s a little spring reminder for you all. (Picture courtesy of The Future is Unmown).

29/03/2024

FRIDAY FACT - Easter weekend is the most popular weekend for gardening - PLEASE TAKE CARE and check for hogs and hoglets!
Here is a pic of recently released Edna❤️🦔

28/03/2024

Pauline brought Benson to us on 1st December as he was clearly too small to survive the Winter, weighing just over 300g. Since coming to the rescue, he has made excellent progress and Pauline asked if we would put a photo of him on Facebook when he was being released. He has now been released, very close to where he was found and will be supported by one of our excellent volunteers, who puts out food and water nightly for her prickly visitors. We're more than happy to show you a photo of Benson as he is now - a much bigger boy than when he arrived in December!! We hope you enjoy the photo of Benson taken just before he left us to enjoy his freedom back in the wild. He'd tripled in weight whilst being here so will hopefully now go on to help produce the next generations of Bensons!

Thank you for bringing him to us when he clearly needed help Pauline.

27/03/2024

On Sunday two of our volunteers spent the morning deep cleaning.
The outdoor garden had a good sweep over, all of the hedgehog houses got a thorough clean and packed up with new straw bedding. The feeding stations were washed out and set up.
Then they carefully relocated the disabled hedgehogs from Melrose House, the winter dwelling, and that too had a thorough clean out. The houses and feeding stations were all washed out too. So grateful to get a sunny but windy day to help with the drying out.
It’s a dirty job but very satisfying 😝

25/03/2024

Natascha released 3 hogs of ours Bristle, Dennis & Hope. She managed to catch 2 of them on camera. We love seeing our hedgehogs in their natural environment.

25/03/2024

🦔On this we send huge thanks to:
• to the sender of a bag of kibble (no name), the hogs favourite;
• Claire of Cheviot Groomers, for her donating Tina's grooming fee;
• Lesley for these beautiful aprons she gifted to two of our volunteers🦔
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24/03/2024

Goodbye Sticky. We hope you meet old friends when you are returned back to your home tonight. Safe travels.

23/03/2024

It’s our garden safety post. If you have a pond, you can make it hedgehog safe by installing a ramp. Last year we had a hedgehog brought to us who was stuck in a pond. Luckily we were able to save it. Here’s a video to show you how to make an escape ramp. There are also escape ramps available to buy.

SUBSCRIBE ► https://bit.ly/2VCQkOZThis simple ramp will allow hedgehogs to escape from a pond if they accidentally fall in. Although hedgehogs are good swimm...