HogsCroft Hedgehog Rescue

19/12/2025

Drum roll 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
Last night the draw took place for our Christmas raffle. A massive thank you to everyone who bought tickets and donated the prizes. Special thanks to Sheila Hume for creating the marvellous first prize hamper. .....and thanks to an online random number generator here are our winners 🥳🥳🥳🥳

1st Christmas hamper - Joanie F
2nd Handmade hedgehog quilt and cushion - Elaine Hutchinson
3rd Champagne and Chocs- Stephanie P
4th A wee night in hamper- Jo LatiFoo
5th The kids one- Joan C
6th One for a hedgehog lover- Maureen Rowan
7th M&S goodies and a bottle of wine EedBeth Wiggins
8th Table wreath and chocs - Fiona C
9th Sparkly hedgehog and HogsCroft woodie goodies - Alex
10th M&S Christmas crackers, choc caramels and sparkly hedgehog Pat Lawrence

Thank you everyone for your support ♥️🦔♥️🦔♥️🦔♥️

18/12/2025

The second little hedgehog to come in on Sunday evening was Tasha. Virginia, knows us well as she brought in both Arthur avd Rowan, hedgehogs she found out in the day a little earlier in the year. She had noticed Tasha a couple of weeks back out at night on her Kirruemuur farm. She’d thought her a little small at the time but because she was out at the right time she let her be. When Virginia spotted her again in the same spot on Sunday evening she decided to scoop her up and phoned for advice.
Virginia could not bring her in as she had animal duties of her own to tend to, so Linda, one of our volunteers, and her hubby, drove out to Kirriemuir to collect her. Tasha has very large parasite burden and it was touch and go for the first 2-3 days. She wasn’t eating and wouldn’t allow any syringe feeds, this made it impossible to give her some of the oral medications she badly needed. Persistence is key with hedgehogs - every time she was given subcut fluids she was offered a syringe feed and on Tuesday night she finally took some!!! Tasha is now eating for herself and taking her medicine.
In general if you see a hedgehog out at night then you need to leave them alone, however very small hedgehogs - the size of a can of beans or less - need to rescued as they will not survive the winter. If in doubt please phone a rescue. Virginia is used to seeing hedgehogs and has a good idea of size, but it can be very difficult to gauge - especially when they ball up. Tasha now stands a good chance of recovery, but would not have survived much longer had she not been rescued.
She was named after the cat who first spotted Emily - the first small hedgehog, covered in paint, who came in a little earlier on Sunday night 🥰

17/12/2025

Last 4 numbers for our Christmas hamper draw taking place tomorrow. Two hampers, champagne, chocolates, M&S goodies, something for the kids, the hedgehog lovers one and more ♥️🦔♥️🦔♥️
£5/ ticket, payment by PayPal and let us know your choice of number below.
PayPal.me/hogscroftrescue

Massive thank you to everyone who has donated prizes and to you our supporters! Love from the hedgehogs ♥️🦔♥️🦔♥️

16/12/2025

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Looking for a last minute pressie? How about one of our sponsorship packs? Available for collection from the rescue (please order first) or will post. Please message us with details. 🦔♥️🦔♥️🦔

16/12/2025

When Tasha the cat was showing an interest in something in their Kinross garden on Sunday evening, Louise and her daughter Emily went out to explore. They couldn’t quite believe it when they saw a hedgehog with a huge white stripe down its back - Louise phoned the rescue for advice and I requested a photo. On seeing the footage I asked if they could bring the hedgehog in. Not only was the poor soul daubed with thick white paint but it was also only 380 grams, too small to cope with a Scottish winter. Emily the hog had a very empty tummy and a nasty cough - she is however making full use of the hospitality on offer!
The paint is water based emulsion so fortunately shouldn’t cause too much harm. It does however leave little Emily vulnerable to predators - as the white makes her very visible at night.
Please never mark a hedgehog - they are wild animals, they do not ‘ belong’ to us, if we are lucky they visit our gardens - we don’t need to know who us who to be able to put out food and water for them. Let them be, watch from a distance, or better still get some wildlife or security cameras.
Emily will be here all winter and I’ll start bathing her to try and get rid of the paint so come the spring she can be released back to the wild - to be a free wild animal - as nature intended her to be.

16/12/2025

Please vote for us folks by clicking on the link 🙏

✨🦔 Ending the year on a hedgehog-friendly high! 🦔✨

As our final competition of the year, we’re treating five brilliant wildlife rescues to a Brambles hedgehog food bundle, packed with goodness for their prickly residents:

4 x Brambles Crunchy Hedgehog Food (2kg)
24 x Brambles Meaty Hedgehog Food (tins) x24
4 x Brambles Semi-Moist Hedgehog Food (1.3kg)

Want to get involved?
Simply tag or name a wildlife rescue you’d love to support in the comments ⬇️

Entries close 22nd December at 11am.

(A quick reminder: we’ll never ask for personal details by message. Winners are always announced publicly on our page.)

16/12/2025

The last numbers available for our super Christmas hamper draw on Thursday. Don't miss out! There's Christmas goodies, things for the kids, champagne, chocolates..... and of course no HogsCroft Christmas draw is complete without our hand-knitted sparkly hogs 😉 🦔♥️🦔♥️🦔

Please let us know your selection on this post. £5 a number. Payment by PayPal to
PayPal.me/hogscroftrescue

Thank you!

15/12/2025

🦔❤️ This is a winter problem for our prickly friends, as well as a summer one. When everything freezes they struggle too. A good trick to help prevent the water in the bowl from freezing is to cut up squares of bubble wrap and cardboard, sandwich several layers of the bubble wrap between the card and stand the bowl on top. It doesn’t work in extreme cold but it certainly helps keep it ice free for longer ❤️🦔

15/12/2025

Pumpkin joins us in offering a huge thank you to everyone who has so kindly donated all the items from our recent Amazon wishlist. Overwhelmed by your kindness and support - no sooner had the request been put out than deliveries arrived. At a time when we are trying to save every penny we have to help create our rehabilitation cabin your donations allow us to cope with the day to day costs of running the rescue. Thank you everyone 👏👏👏

15/12/2025

Abernyte and Inchture Biodiversity Villages
Another Date for Your Diary!
Saturday 24th January 2026
10.30am to 12 noon
Inchture Hotel

We are running a Hedgehog Workshop at the Inchture Hotel for anyone interested in creating a Hedgehog Highway in either village. Check out the details in the poster and please book your free place as soon as possible via Elena at [email protected].

14/12/2025

Levi came in on Monday thanks to Yvonne from Ladybank seeing him lying out on a pavement in the day. He was cold on arrival and required an incubator for a while. When we tested his p**p he had a huge roundworm, including an adult roundworm full of eggs, and lungworm burden - such a small soul to cope with it all. On Thursday, following some treatment, we repeated the test and it showed a reduction in the burden. Although he was still not eating much and requiring syringe feeds we were hopeful. On Friday morning he was in a state of collapse and cold, he was given fluids and popped back in an incubator. He seemed to perk up after a few hours but by late afternoon began once more to deteriorate. Despite all efforts to save his young life he very sadly slipped away in the early hours of Saturday morning. Sometimes the parasites have already caused too much damage and are just too many in numbers fur such a wee soul to cope with. It never gets easier to see a young life slip away, fly high wee man, you fought so hard 😢💔

13/12/2025

We had our volunteers Christmas dinner at the Lass O Gowrie last night. Fabulous evening and huge thanks to Ali, Bob and staff for once again offering us a very special night and their ongoing support for our rescue ❤️