..... 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. 🦔❤️
Meet Betty, found in Timberland Church Cemetery in daylight in October 2022, she was a 170 g hoglet. Likely from a second litter, she was obviously small, cold, and carrying the lungworm and round worm parasites. She was admitted, Treated for her worm burden, and then hibernated in the Hogspital until a couple of weeks ago. She is now a healthy 950 grams and has moved out to 1 of my outside enclosures to acclimatise properly. Look at her now….round, interested, active and healthy……won’t be long Betty spring is just around the corner ❤️🦔
Free at last 🦔
Good luck handsome Quilliam, enjoy your long awaited freedom 🦔
Dinner time
Finally managed to tempt the ? nursing mum from climbing up onto a bird feeder and into a hog house under cover. Just in time for all of this rain🦔
LOLA
Such beautiful creatures
Garden Birds
Just a short video of the local wildlife
Its spring time, time to get up and get out.
Vic and Maxine released after spending winter in rescue. Both autumn juveniles. Sorry but I'm not sure which is which, because they new each other I put them in a box together.
Hedgehog dinking water
When hedgehogs wake up from hibernation they are dehydrated and very thirsty, like us they need clean drinking water to survive. Try to leave them small shallow bowls of clean water all through the year but especially when they start to rouse from hibernating and in the summer.
Free at last.
This is Jessie the first hedgehog I have ever rescued. She was lying out in the sun in November. I took her to a hedgehog carer nearby who told me she was mature female who was severely dehydrated and cold. It was possible she had had a late litter, consequently becoming run down herself. She was nursed back to health and she came back to my garden in the following spring. She is the reason I started my own rehabilitation of hedgehogs. Such beautiful and gentle creatures someone needs to look after them, why not me?
Time to make my bed I think.
Scratcher spent all winter with us, survived the snow in t(his) hibernaculae. This is him making his bed ready to hibernate. He finally went into hibernation the same night as the winter solstice in December 2017. He was back up and about in March 2018.
