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14/01/2025

Sadly he didn't make it. 😥

The old guy that had the ticks is very poorly he went down hill over night. I'm having to give injectable fluids and syr...
13/01/2025

The old guy that had the ticks is very poorly he went down hill over night. I'm having to give injectable fluids and syringe feeds to as he's not taken any food or drink over night. Going to be a worrying few hours.

Thank you Sharon for your donation to the hoggys.
11/01/2025

Thank you Sharon for your donation to the hoggys.

Thank you Lisa for the bin bags of the wish list and the bag of kitten biscuits.
10/01/2025

Thank you Lisa for the bin bags of the wish list and the bag of kitten biscuits.

10/01/2025

Nearly tick free now. Another 6 of him today. Their just a couple of seed ticks around his bottom which will hopefully fall of.
He's just such a lovely old boy. Straight out for food once cleaned out. Can't blame him when he's so thin.
Found cap eggs in his sample last night.

09/01/2025

These 26 ticks have been in this bowl of safe 4 disinfectant cleaner that's from one of my spray bottles used for cleaning the cages since about 10am this morning. They are still bloody alive how the hell are they not dead!. Horrible things.

The hedge is now being ripped out. The archaeology dig is down Tornado way, Towngate East, West Deeping. It backs on to ...
09/01/2025

The hedge is now being ripped out.

The archaeology dig is down Tornado way, Towngate East, West Deeping. It backs on to a new housing development. It's surrounded by hedging which at the moment is now being trimmed but may end up being ripped up, I'm not sure.
The hedgehog with the ticks was found here. The field is just a grass field for now but their stripping it.
If theirs anyone in the area that could keep a eye out for displace hogs. The hedge is outside of the harras fencing for the dig.
I imagine their are hedgehogs asleep now in the area.

Update on the guy from last night that was covered in ticks. He's had a bath and has had 79 ticks evicted so far, dont t...
09/01/2025

Update on the guy from last night that was covered in ticks. He's had a bath and has had 79 ticks evicted so far, dont think hes got to many more left on him. He had a good night and ate well. Gaining 30 grams. He's definitely a older boy. His sample tests so far haven't shown anything. Looks like he may have the start of ringworm, so he will be treated for that. I will keep checking samples to see what shows up.

Had a phone call from a overseas number. I let it go to voice mail incase of a scam. Turns out it was a lovely lady from...
08/01/2025

Had a phone call from a overseas number. I let it go to voice mail incase of a scam. Turns out it was a lovely lady from France who's working on a archaeological dig before building work can take place in market Deeping and her phone numbers not been changed from back home. All the local places were closed. So she rang me next. They were digging a area and the bulldozer was clearing the next patch to be worked over. Before the bulldozer got to ware the people were working they see this hedgehog and he fell down the side of the excavation into ware they were working. Soo lucky he wasn't squashed by the machine.
They kept him warm in a box with their wellie warmers. He's absolutely covered In ticks. I counted from what i could see ontop of him 55 ticks. Thin for his size to, with a dipped neck, only weighing 612 grams. Covered in mud from his tumble to. Poor boy. So he's warming up now in my incubator at the moment. He will have a bath tomorrow.

Sammy, still fighting the cap burden but hopefully had last round now. Up to 900 grams.
06/01/2025

Sammy, still fighting the cap burden but hopefully had last round now. Up to 900 grams.

Xander has been feeling very poorly, not much appetite and still loosing weight. Today I didn't find coccidia in his sam...
05/01/2025

Xander has been feeling very poorly, not much appetite and still loosing weight. Today I didn't find coccidia in his sample which was unusual with the high amount he has had in previous checks.
But I did find cap eggs and lungworm and possibly a fluke egg so he will be starting treatments for those to.
So far I've taken 65 ticks of him. He's only got the odd seed tick left on him now.

Hugo, her ringworm is clearing up slowly, not many spines are being lost now. Only parasite treatment she's still having...
03/01/2025

Hugo, her ringworm is clearing up slowly, not many spines are being lost now.
Only parasite treatment she's still having is for cap. She's now 700 grams.

This is just shocking. So yesterday after repeated sample checks and nothing showing which was surprising since he had s...
01/01/2025

This is just shocking. So yesterday after repeated sample checks and nothing showing which was surprising since he had so many ticks, Xander showed just two coccidia spores in a sample. Nothing else no parasites apart from those two spores.
Today is a totally different picture his sample on the slide is absolutely full of coccidia spores. Probably the second worst of ever seen.
So I started treatment yesterday as coccidia is highly contagious and he's over the other side of the room from the other hogs out of the way. He will have all his checks and clean outs after everyone else to try and prevent it spreading. He lost weight last night and didn't want to eat. Which is understandable when you see all the spores in these pictures.
This is why regular daily checks of new admissions is so important.

01/01/2025

Just did the figures of hedgehogs admitted last year.
I had 9 hedgehogs released that were over wintered from 2023.
12 hoggys that had to be pts or they died.
Which means if everyone that's in now survives their will be 32 hedgehogs back out free or will be free or they are/will be in secure homes for life if they couldn't be free for their safety reasons.
That's two more than the year before.
I would have liked it to have been more hoggys I could have helped but parasites are becoming harder to treat which makes recovery times longer and their was more ringworm cases this year and injuries requiring longer stays. So I was full for longer. Plus I do this totally on my own with no volunteer helpers or fosterers and was working full time.
But that said that's still a nice amount to have helped and I couldn't do this without the help of all of you out their that collect newspapers, donated money, food, bedding, raffle prizes, joined in the raffles, offered your gardens for releases, brought items from the amazon wish list.
It really is very much appreciated and all of you help me to keep the rescue going. I don't know what will happen this year it all depends on what new job I can get. But with your support to keep going things should be okay. So THANK YOU ALL xx
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01/01/2025

Found cap eggs in Noels samples this morning. This is why it's so important to keep checking samples even if nothing is found the first couple of times. Think I did five sample checks before I found the lungworm last night. His breathings not great but he's on all the medications needed.

31/12/2024

Noels sample tonight showed a lungworm. He had been coughing today and he has crackly breathing. Treatments started.
Xander showed coccidia in his samples today so he's started treatments to. He also had another 12 ticks removed today.

30/12/2024

Another 14 ticks of the guy from yesterday. Still more to come off him. Both boys from yesterday have had samples checked today and surprisingly they were both clear. But I'm sure that something will be found. I will check daily.
I bathed the boy with ticks this morning as he smelt terrible. The surprise is that I know this hog. He is Xander that my partner spotted on a road back in October 2023. He was released into my garden in April this year. He still had his marker on him so I could tell who he was.
So Xander is welcomed back for the foreseeable till he's sorted.
I've named the boy with all the fleas Noel and thankfully most of his little blood sucking friends are now dead.

29/12/2024

So a couple of months ago I spotted on my cameras a boy hog with a few ticks on his face but he was never out when I went over to check the feeders.
Then their was nothing seen of him since the first sightings. So I thought he had moved on or hibernated.
Boxing day I checked the camera in the release pen as the gate was open after toffee was released and their was Mr tick face, only his few ticks had now multiplied into a face full. He had woken up from his sleep and was about again. But despite me going out several times after dark since then their was no sign of him on the cameras.
Tonight I go out at 5.50pm check the camera and he had just been filmed seconds before I got their. So I check the house and their he was!.
18 ticks so far removed and I will leave the rest for the morning along with some meds to help. 525 grams so not a great weight poor guy.

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