Timberland Hogspital

Timberland Hogspital CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Timberland Hogspital has now been open for 2 years. It is a very small self-funded hedgehog rescue and rehabilitation service.

Permanently closed.

I am already a registered general nurse and have completed the basic hedgehog care course at Vale Wildlife HospitaI, I am currently undertaking a Wildlife Rehabilitation Studies Diploma. My practice is guided by my very supportive Vet and adapted from Vale SOPs. All funds donated or raised are used entirely to care for the hedgehogs in the Hogspital. If you’d like to donate to the hedgehogs care

please follow these links:
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/timberlandhogspital/
via my Amazon wish list: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/JK7Q3XG81FN4?ref_=wl_share
or via PayPal using my email:
[email protected]

Thank you so much for supporting hedgehogs at the Hogspital.

Having a fabulous time at an arts and crafts market in Leasingham. Open til 1500 if you're local and free 🦔❤️
15/06/2024

Having a fabulous time at an arts and crafts market in Leasingham. Open til 1500 if you're local and free 🦔❤️

02/06/2024

The days are warming up and the hogs will need lots of water.
We need to help our hogs not to get also dehydrated,and being so sick, by leaving lots of fresh water out daily for them in shallow bowls.
Thanks Paul Stockham for Quilbert's Reminder

31/05/2024

If anyone has any newspapers I’d really appreciate it. Happy to come and collect if you’re local 🦔

18/05/2024

Hedgehogs are drawn to churchyards for several reasons:

1. Safety and Protection:

Churchyards often provide a quiet and relatively undisturbed environment. Unlike busy urban areas, churchyards have less human and animal traffic, making them safer for hedgehogs.

2. Natural Habitat:

These areas usually have abundant vegetation, including shrubs, hedges, and leaf litter, which are ideal for nesting and foraging. The natural setting offers hedgehogs plenty of places to hide from predators and harsh weather.

3. Food Sources:

Churchyards can be rich in invertebrates like insects, worms, and slugs, which are primary food sources for hedgehogs. The diverse plant life supports a healthy ecosystem that sustains these food sources.

4. Lack of Chemicals:

Churchyards are often maintained with fewer pesticides and chemicals compared to residential gardens and urban parks. This makes them safer for hedgehogs, who can be harmed by such substances.

5. Connectivity:

Churchyards can act as wildlife corridors, connecting various green spaces. This connectivity is crucial for hedgehogs, who need to roam to find food and mates.

These factors combine to make churchyards attractive nesting sites for hedgehogs to give birth and raise their young, providing the resources and conditions they need to thrive.

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16/05/2024

Caring for a hedgehog until you get to a rescue:

➡ Use a deep sided plastic box or spare cardboard box
➡ Place a hot water bottle inside with a towel or blanket
➡ Carefully place the hedgehog inside the box, add a little bowl of water or cat food if you can
➡ Keep noise levels down to avoid any further stress
➡ Take the hedgehog to your nearest wildlife rescue whilst still in the box

15/05/2024

A year in a hedgerow 🌳🌸🦇

Increasing a hedgerow’s plant diversity provides more resources for wildlife. Use our trees and shrubs guide to ID the species present in your hedge.

👉ptes.org/hedgerow/hedgerow-plant-diversity

14/05/2024

Todays headline news. Hypocrisy from the NT who still allow shoots and do little to tackle the hunting crime gangs on their land.

The i news's splash story centres a joint letter from the CEOs of the National Trust, RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts and Woodland Trust who sound warnings over the decline of the UK’s natural environment - which they say must play a major role in this year’s general election.

09/05/2024
09/05/2024
It's hedgehog awareness week folks.Please put down fresh water for them each evening in the warm weather, check bushes,...
06/05/2024

It's hedgehog awareness week folks.
Please put down fresh water for them each evening in the warm weather, check bushes, grassy areas and hedges before doing any gardening, just in case they are there sleeping and enjoy all the fabulous noises they are making now they are up and about 🦔

If anyone wants to listen there is also a 4 minute interview on BBC sounds with me chatting about life at the hogspital ...
04/05/2024

If anyone wants to listen there is also a 4 minute interview on BBC sounds with me chatting about life at the hogspital 🦔

🦔 Meet the hedgehogs being cared for at Timberland Hogspital: bbc.in/3JLpcGU

04/05/2024

Horace has made the big time 🦔😀

04/05/2024

Wow wasn't expecting to see this this morning 😀

01/05/2024

Do you want to help hedgehogs like Grace? We’re seeking Hogleteers to transform villages into hedgehog friendly havens. Join us in halting the decline, one garden and one village at a time. The UK's hedgehog population has plummeted from over 30 million in the 1950s to less than 1 million today. Human activity is the primary culprit, causing habitat destruction, pesticide contamination, and road fatalities. Loss of hedgerows in rural areas and barriers between urban gardens cutting off vital habitat is exacerbating the issue. However, there's hope. By creating hedgehog-friendly spaces, we can reverse the trend and save these beloved creatures. Join Project Amazing Grace and be part of the solution. Read everything you need to know 👉 www.gracethehedgehog.co.uk/making-a-community-hedgehog-friendly

01/05/2024

Well that's a wrap folks, Horace has finally left the building, successfully released last night 🦔🤗

Handsome Horace this morning, woken up from hibernating a couple of weeks ago, not a trace of that awful ringworm now, v...
27/04/2024

Handsome Horace this morning, woken up from hibernating a couple of weeks ago, not a trace of that awful ringworm now, very active in his outside enclosure and at a whopping 893g this morning he's ready for release 🦔❤️ gonna miss this little fella ❤️

Thank you everyone who helps via easyfundraising. Each time I get a payout it is always used to buy medications or worme...
27/04/2024

Thank you everyone who helps via easyfundraising. Each time I get a payout it is always used to buy medications or wormers for the hedgehogs 🦔

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Well that's a wrap folks, Horace has finally left the building, successfully released last night 🦔🤗

Bailey from Scopwick getting ready for release, he loves his biscuits this one. Getting back to full fitness in my outdoor enclosure. You'll notice froth on him, he's been self anointing likely due to all the outdoor new smells 🦔

Update on Horace... He's been out in the outside enclosure for several weeks now and he has now finally hibernated 🦔🤗

..... and relax 🍷. Wow, fab weather means a busy hedgehog release day! , good luck to lovely Lana who returned to Martin tonight, Iris and Amy who returned to the Timberland garden network. Audrey is off home to Billinghay tomorrow. No more releases now for at least a week but at least now I'm just full 😏 and not inundated 😝 video clip is of Amy tonight 🦔

I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who's dropped off newspapers for me. I'm so very grateful, there's too many people to mention individually but please know bedding for the hedgehogs is a massive expence that I don't have to fund and it's due to you all. With 2 hoglets admitted this weekend, Sofia and Sid (video clip), baby season is still in full swing 🦔🙏

This 70 grams of loveliness is little Susan from Metheringam. I have 10 hoglets in at the moment. This includes Amy, Jerry and Frankie from Dorrington, Casper, Robyn and Kenny from Blankney, Audrey from Billinghay, Fennel and Prickles from Timberland. I don't need money to make their life easier, these babies need puppy pads, puppy milk, puppy mousse and gloves for me. I'd absolutely love it if anyone has some spare cash and could help me out with a few supplies 🦔

I'd like to introduce you to the Incubeanybator! Timberland Hogspital is very fortunate to have a large community of supporters, but every now and then, I am utterly overcome by others generosity... For about 18 months Bev 'Beany' Bean was one of my greatest supports. Motivating messages of kindness for me when I felt overwhelmed, spontaneous gifts for the hedgehog inpatients like biscuits, fund raising and donations like when she sold excess seedlings from her greenhouse, and finally buying regular supplies such as gloves to keep me going when we got busy. To honour her passion for wild hedgehog welfare and rescue, Beany's final gift to the Hogspital came through her family and friends. Despite great personal loss and heartbreak, they collectively and entirely paid for the Hogspital to have a much needed 2nd larger incubator. From the bottom of my heart, I thank everyone of Beany's family and friends that made the incredible Incubeanybator possible and has already made a difference to 2 hoggies lives 🦔❤️🙏

I love this little dude, Dash from Tattershall. Weight and roll up check tomorrow hopefully going home this week 🦔❤️

Meet Dash, OMG I love this little fella. Dash has been in the Hogspital a long time. He was admitted last summer and how he has survived is anyone's guess. Dash is from Tattershall, his finder discovered him on his doorstep late at night. Dash is the only hedgehog I've admitted at 0100 in the morning! He was gasping for breath, covered in scores and scores of tiny ticks. He has been treated for every worm going, including ring worm. I absolutely love him, he's hibernated with me this winter but now it's spring, finally he's moved out into the outside enclosure. As you can hear and see he's a busy lad, getting those leg muscles strong ready for his return home, climbing and just listen to his busy snuffling, go Dash, won't be long boy ♥️

Good luck to Betty who returned to the wild last night. Betty was about 180 g when she was found in daylight, in Timberland cemetery in Oct 22. She has been treated., brought up to weight and hibernated during winter here in the hogspital, and as you can see raring to go ❤️

I thought I’d introduce myself and explain a little more about the products I am selling to help sustain Timberland Hogspital. If you haven’t already seen I have opened up a new Webpage for Timberland Hogspital which has a web shop contains my artisan candles, wax melts and diffusers. They are all lovely items, so if you are stuck for ideas and want a lovely gift that benefits hedgehogs and their habitat, you’ve come to the right place. 🦔❤️

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A little about me...

It was only about 4 years ago that I fell in love with the hedgehog. I’d never really seen them before but in my last home they used to visit the bird feeders in my garden. I started feeding them hedgehog food/water and got a couple of hedgehog homes and before I knew it they were regular visitors. As wonderful as it was to see them more often, sadly I also used to find sick ones in my garden, especially during the day. I firmly believe that every animal deserves a second chance so I started taking them to a British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) rehabilitator, and through these sick hedgehogs and learning from this wonderful lady my passion and determination to help and protect this vulnerable animal has steadily grown.

This lady is now my ‘hedgehog mentor’, she supporting me whilst I gain knowledge, skills and importantly experience. I am waiting to go on the BHPS/Vale Hedgehog First Aid & Rehabilitation course, unfortunately although understandably I’ve already been cancelled once due to the Covid 19 crisis, but all being well I am scheduled in for the next one in June 2020. That all said, I am a qualified nurse and have been for 25 years, so I have a few skills that are transferrable. I have also been looking after some of the Timberland hedgehog population from about October last year. I release hedgehogs for my mentor that don’t come from this area, as unfortunately not all rescue animals can go back to the places they were found. And while I have been waiting I have set up my Hogspital with the support and advice of other Hedgehog Rehabilitors across UK.