Furze Aid

01/05/2023

This week is hedgehog awareness week. A good time to start doing any little things you can to help hedgehogs...
Make a gap in fence
Leave out meaty dog or cat food with water
Manage garden to encourage insects as a natural food source
Offer shelter and bedding materials such as straw
Remember you probably won't see them often but they are there and if you make provision for them they will visit.

02/12/2022

Off to the vet in the morning with this little one 'Snuffles' to get that cough sorted.

03/08/2022

09/07/2022

This is the number one thing that anyone can do to help save hedgehogs 🦔 💦

06/07/2022

Hazel says please be sure to leave plenty of shallow bowls of fresh water out for wildlife during the warm weather forecast ahead.

05/07/2022

Mum (Hazel) and baby (Catkin) have moved into new accommodation in the garden today. Both very healthy, no parasites, Hazel weighing 1268g and Catkin 280g. Now they can do what hoggies do (with support feeding as long as the want it) !
📸 Catkin 🦔 💕

30/06/2022

10 days now and what a change.... The remaining hoglet has gone from being fully dependent on mum to being relatively independent. Feeding on kitten biscuits well now and out much more on its own, steadier on its feet.

26/06/2022

Well it's been nearly a week since I took in the young family. Unfortunately I found one of the hoglets dead on Thursday, its tummy didn't look right so perhaps it would have passed away anyway. Fortunately mum hog and the remaining hoglet seem to be doing well and have settled into their temporary lodgings.

20/06/2022

It's so infuriating when a perfectly healthy hedgehog family has to be disturbed simply because someone doesn't want it in their garden. So I'm now fostering a mother with 2 gorgeous babies simply because people refused to leave it alone in their garden. They probably would have naturally moved on in a month or so anyway.

04/04/2022

Female hedgehog from local rescue released tonight. In the clip she has picked up the scent of the males that have been using the hog café recently and gone off to explore.

17/03/2022

Hedgehog Awareness Week runs from 1st – 7th May 2022, it is organised by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and takes place every year. It aims to highlight the problems hedgehogs face and how you can help them. This year we are celebrating the 40th Birthday of BHPS and asking people to.......

11/03/2022

We're now in the main active period for hedgehogs so it's important to be mindful when gardening and also to provide fresh water and food if possible.

10/03/2022