Helping Hogs

21/08/2024

This is Stan the man 🦔 why are you baffin me 🦔?
He’s struggling with all three parasites mainly fluke then we find a hidden puncture wound 🦔🥲🤞Stan




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20/08/2024

Don’t drop that apple on my head 🦔


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19/08/2024

From a teeny tiny hoglet to being released in under 12 weeks amazing teamwork Helping Hogs 🦔🦔
Fergie the last of the cow pat family released accompanied by
Joy found as a hoglet in a lay-by on route from Halifax ! They finally got their freedom 🐾🐾🐾to a wonderful location in Giggleswick 🐾🐾🐾🐾Thank you to Ruth for taking and supporting them releasing them in a wonderful location already with a great hedgehog population 🦔🦔🦔🐾🐾🐾 stay safe girls 🦔🦔

16/08/2024

Easy to make and make a difference to our hungry 🦔

Did you know...?

Wild mostly munch on insects & grubs? So a log-pile or wild area in the garden really helps hungry 'hogs by attracting their natural food!
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You can also offer supplementary meaty cat/dog food or cat biscuits & fresh water!
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15/08/2024

Our little hoglets Uri, Ugo and Ugene are battling lungworm, we are gutted little Uffy didn’t survive it , he went downhill fast 🦔🌈🥲 it must have been transmitted via their mommas milk ..Depending on when infected, level of infection in mum and time taken from infection with larvae to then develop to adults and produce larvae. Usually takes 3-4 weeks, so we test often so catching it in poop has identified early, treatment started and they are now starting to gain weight 🤞

We’ve never seen so much lungworm and fluke in ones so young it’s quite a battle 🦔🪱

We’ve lost Colin 🌈🦔 and Erica 🌈🦔 suddenly…. both had lungworm some we can help some we can’t 😢

Newby 🦔Dimple 288g juvenile is also battling lungworm

And little Flick 🦔 from the Earby hotspot found wandering down the road 🤷‍♀️🦔 Flick 228g, bit dehydrated , underweight , scratty, sometimes indicates fluke 🤷‍♀️ but we will test 💩 and hope 🦔🙏

It’s a difficult time but we will
Battle on 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔 please keep looking out for our prickles in need of help 🦔🙏

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14/08/2024

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12/08/2024

Outs and Ins 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

They have left the building and are free 🐾 🐾 🐾🐾🐾 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔
Stay safe hoggies

All released back to Earby hog hotspot 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔 from where they came🐾🐾🐾🦔🦔

Charlie has gone back to be supported by Lisa and Nixie 🦔🐾 🙏
Derek has gone back to be supported by Lisa (different one ) 🙂🦔🐾
Leonard and the lovely Wilma 🦔🦔 🐾🐾have been released by Alison thank you 🙏

And Fern (at last) 🦔🐾 released and supported by Elaine 🙏

In comes 🐾🐾🐾🐾prickles in pickles 🦔🦔🦔🦔

Barney but probably Barbara 🦔😂 130g
Colin 349g already identified lungworm and roundworm 🦔

D 🦔 very shy 🙈 name to be decided 288g from Gargrave

Erica from Skipton 277g

Never a dull moment 🐾🐾🐾
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08/08/2024

We’ve been in need of a hoglet hug 🤗 🦔 🦔🦔🦔🦔 this week 🐾😂it’s been a week of joy and heart break 💔

These little orphan hoglets are lucky that Lorraine got to them in time, and removed all the flystrike in time. .. they are starting to make progress ..Please if you see hoglets about in the day alone don’t leave them for hours before getting them help they need help immediately 🦔🦔🦔🦔 we’ve finally named them .. meet Ugo, Ugene, Uffy,and Uri 🦔🦔🦔🦔 we think they are all male 🤗

We’ve had several sad cases come in this week firstly Xandrea seemed to be doing well but sadly and suddenly lost her battle to a high burden of fluke 🦔🌈

We had a hog brought in with a serious head injury probably caused by a strimmer, the most horrific we’ve seen . We decided we are not going to post the worst pictures of Yvette, they are too horrific, yes they made us cry for the suffering of this poor little hog 🥹 and it’s a Sunday, vets are closed … luckily a lovely vet nurse (thankyou 🙏) helped Lorraine clean and dress the wound and give some much needed pain relief we hoped we could nurse her back to health but the next morning had to make the decision it was much kinder to put this little one to sleep🌈🦔💔😭 we’ve said all we have to say on strimmers they are killers ‼️

We then get in Zeus, thankyou to Barlick Wildlife Ambulance Crew for getting him too us , but arrived in a very sorry state, he’s a bag of bones,2 emaciated, covered in ticks, missing a claw and it’s swollen and bleeding 🩸 Then we identify the parasites fluke and round worm 🪱 and it’s a huge burden.. he’s is given the maximum sub-cut fluids for his body weight which is 100mls throughout the day and he’s still not hydrated enough for us to help with the parasite burden and before we could sadly he passed by morning 🌈🦔

We then have Andrew rescued by our volunteer Sue who removes fly strike from this little hog .. cross everything for Andrew 🦔

I am going to end on a happy story , Edwin has been collected and left the building by Stella and he’s been released back to his territory in Bentham. Thank you Stella for the wonderful donation you made it will go a long way for us to help other hogs 🙏

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07/08/2024

First experience of biscuits it like a biscuit wrestling match rolling and self anointing 🦔🦔🦔🦔 they are so funny and cute 🥰 Helping Hogs

01/08/2024

I love hoglets ❤️ they are so mischievous 🐾🐾 they make me smile in between the heartbreaking 💔 cases we see.

But this little dude 🦔 makes me chuckle he’s Onyx McBitey, I am monitoring him on camera because he’s not gaining weight🤷‍♀️ he’s eating, possibly not enough, but his nightly antics may explain why🦔😂

He was found and rescued in Cemetry Park Earby , some children were poking him and throwing coats over him 🦔🦔😬 maybe that’s where he’s got his attitude from …it’s revenge. This is the first little hoglet that has actually tried to bite me 🫣

Last night the video shows him taking revenge on yes ! His dish 😂 many times during the night, he cracks me up 🦔😂🤣

Final blow was the camera so no more footage ….

He has sadly just tested for lungworm and roundworm so treatment will start .. he will have a little fight of his own to deal with 🥲

We’ve had several incidents recently of hedgehogs 🦔 being poked prodded or used as footballs, and of course run over 🚗 these are defenceless little endangered creatures 🦔
WHY ????

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31/07/2024

Edwin came in from Bentham from the lovely Stella the beginning of July….
Quite an old, gentle boy, you can tell he’s quite ginger 🦔😍 weighing around 500g dehydrated and with an awful left eye wound hard to tell if the eye was ok, had taken him to the vets apart from being given an antibiotic nothing had been done to the wound 😕We gave him a warm bath and bathed his eye to soften the wound, repeated next day and managed to remove the scab yes he has an eye 👁️ the wound was still pussy, course of antibiotics helped and it started improving with regular wound care..
Unfortunately 💩💩 samples then showed fluke then lungworm and then roundworm 🔬 🦔 We treat in order that will kill a hog starting with fluke💩 he’s been such a trouper one of the gentlest hedgehogs we’ve treated ….a proper little gentleman🦔 took his meds like a pro 🦔
He’s now a handsome dude the wound has nearly healed ..just another couple roundworm treatments and he’ll be good to go home…. he’s now just over 900g we’ve popped him outside in a garden run so he gets more
Exercise and climatized before release 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

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31/07/2024

Good advice for any animal 😍

Its hot! 🥵

Some breeds of dogs like, Pugs and French bulldogs can find this temperature even more challenging.

If your dog struggles in hot weather, try and avoid the hottest part of the day. The temperature outside can be up to three times hotter in your car, pavements can hit uncomfortable temperatures too!

We're encouraging pet owners to consider if an appointment in the middle of the day is in the best interest of their pet 🤔 We have early morning and evening appointments for pets who would benefit from avoiding the heat 💪

29/07/2024

It’s been a difficult week… with highs 🐾🐾🐾🐾. The releases and very lows…..
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We have had Hoglets/juvenile’s in , after the baby season, we get the sickliest hogs many have left their mommas for numerous reasons 🦔 too early .. disturbed by dogs🦔🦔 naughty children ..
if they have wounds this time of year the flies are upon them laying eggs that look like rice🦔 if they are are not found and rescued fast then the outcome is not a happy one 🦔 …..as we’ve found ….
We had Nora in 🦔 from Clitheroe
…Not in a good state, think poss been mauled by a dog .. 231g after 20ml sub cut fluid which was given at the finders . Hole in ear and tongue swollen and jaw looked wonky but not seen it move its tongue. Floppy, No idea how long it’s been like this tho . Found in a park where lots of dogs are running free. Finder had called the vets but they weren’t very helpful 🤷‍♀️ Sadly Nora passed 🌈🦔

Next another little hog in from cemetery park Earby . Thankyou to the members of Barlick Wildlife Ambulance Crew for bringing. In comes a little 190g hog transferred to Settle hoglet unit named Onyx , it was rescued from some naughty boys prodding and throwing coats over it 😡 so probably no wonder it came in like a little gangster the first hoglet EVER to try bite me 🫣 re named Onyx McBitey 🦔😂

We now have another en route poor Lorraine trails back again to Settle This little one that our volunteer Sue dropped off is another little one 210g full of fly strike and fleas . Very dehydrated Lorraine’s removed most of the fly strike and hibiscrub bathed it . Having another go at the fly strike when it’s had a break. It arrives things are moving round its eyes 😬 we then spend the next two and a half hours removing live maggots from this little one , sorry if you are squeeemish but maggots are ouzing from the eyes, ears, spines it has a puncture wound under one eye which is wriggling , it’s the site of a horror movie 🫣 we flush, bathe, squirt maggots and maggots and maggots from this little hog 🦔 we call it pirate cos we think it only has one eye 🦔🏴‍☠️ 😭. She survives the night and seems to pick up and eats but still finding the odd 🐛 she starts to deteriorate we don’t know the internal damage …no parasites show in poop 💩 but next morning she too crosses the 🦔🌈 the only thing we take from this is she wasn’t eaten alive 😢 and we don’t recommend it’s the way to spend a Friday evening 🥹

There’s more ……A call of
a hedgehog, it doesn't have any visibly injuries, buts only small and weighs about 220g. It was led out on the floor being pecked at by jackdaws in Clitheroe in a back garden Jo to the rescue and Quill is now in our care too🦔

Sunday has been sad day….
We lost Marty 🦔 he failed to thrive and passed overnight 🌈🦔

Pirate passed away after her maggot ordeal, we are not surprised just sad 😢 🌈🦔

New arrival Robert 🦔 from Skipton full of fly strike, Had a puncture wound on his neck . His stomach and armpits were also full of fly strike as were his ears .. poor thing 😞🫣 sadly passed within the hour 🌈🦔

We’ve been fortunate to have the lovely Daisy with us for a week on work placement, nearly in her third year at veterinary training… came to us for some experience in wildlife. She’s been to visit the hoglets in Settle and been working at the hogspital in Paythorne . We wish her well in the rest of her training and has been a great help adding an extra helping hand at this busy time.

Hoping for a better start to the new week … please remember time is of the essence this time a year if you find a hog out in the day get in touch!

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28/07/2024

Lord Snuffles never ceases to amaze us…. We believe he decided to hibernate in July … yes summer, he is now nearly 3 years old he’s never hibernated properly, even through the winter months. This year his servant went away for a week leaving plenty biscuits but couldn’t leave his daily meat … on return he was nowhere to be seen … on further investigation he’d left his house and built himself a grass nest in the corner of his garden, we knew he was in there as he huffed at us upon finding it . For a month he didn’t come out for food or poop in his favourite place … kinda worried about him until this Week he surfaces and starts pooping and expecting food … yes he hibernated in summer 🦔🤷‍♀️ I think because no meat available he decided it was hibernation time 🦔😂 and let’s face it the weather has not been great …..nothing so fickle as a prickle 🦔
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25/07/2024

Considering we are a small, newly formed team at Helping Hogs we’ve worked hard to rescue and save our precious hoglet prickles this year 🦔🦔🦔every team member should be proud of what’s been achieved, it’s been a journey ..we have started to release all we have had in care, which has mainly been hoglets 🦔🦔🦔 they can’t all go back to where they were found because it’s either not safe or unable to do so and they need some support releasing.. After careful consideration of where they go we have said goodbye to 4 of our prickles last night 🦔🦔🦔🦔

One of our volunteers is support releasing Bluey and Dexter in Embsay 🦔🦔 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

Aspen and Venus are being supported by the lovely Reynolds family in Rathmell 🙏 🦔🦔 🐾🐾🐾🐾

More releases to come 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
….after all the hard work hand rearing many and monitoring…this is the most rewarding part seeing them venture into the big wide world 🐾🐾 stay safe prickles 🦔🦔🦔🦔

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24/07/2024

You may or may not have noticed we have been naming admissions in alphabetical order to help us identify who has been in longest , we are on second time around the alphabet already !

So we have newbies
Joy 🦔 180g hoglet/juvenile
Kevin adult hog from Waddington 663g 🌈🦔 sadly passed away within in hours of admission, he had a huge parasite burden 😢🌈
Leonard 🦔 juvenile from Earby
Marty 🦔 hoglet / juvenile 188g

I’d just like to say a big thank you for the monthly and one-off donations we’ve recently received too may to name but the the team are extremely grateful and the hogs send hugs 🤗 too ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏 Also to everyone who has purchased a hedgehog house or feeding station to support the wildlife on release 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

Our next post will be lots of releases 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔

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21/07/2024

This is Ickle , found on a car park in Burnley rescued and brought to Clitheroe by the finder she’s tiny . Our Volunteer Paul picked her up and brought her to Paythorne then brought her on to Settle hoglet unit 🦔 she was just 117g, several ticks removed, given subcut fluids and put in the incubator to stabilise and warm her up . She sneaked a lid of puppy mousse whilst making her some special formula 🦔😬 hungry little one ❤️

Over the last few days I’ve removed over 20 ticks (now 24)from this little body , often it’s a sign of an underlying problem and definitely too many for this little one to bear. Ticks can make a hog very sick and anaemic..if removed incorrectly they can regurgitate into the hog ..10 on an adult hog is considered too many so on a hoglet it is worrying . We hope for the best , she’s gaining weight slowly.

Removing ticks properly requires experience and, to avoid harming the hedgehog, you should seek expert help at a rescue

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20/07/2024

Peanut, one very lucky 🍀 hoglet has joined Lucky has been released at Paythorne in Lorraine’s wonderful gardens and surrounding land🐾🐾 One of pat’s little family is joining momma cow Pat, Lucky 🦔and the wildies 🐾🐾 I am sure they’ll have a wonderful time 🦔🦔🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 in Hedgehog haven 🦔

We will be releasing many of the hoglets we’ve raised to healthy hedgehogs over the next couple of weeks will try and update as we find them homes 🐾🐾🐾🦔🐾🦔 if you are a finder we will be contacting you 🦔

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19/07/2024

We’ve been asked about donations, it’s not our policy to ask 🤗 but 🐾🐾🐾🐾 if you feel you would like to help we’d be extremely grateful 🙏 🐾🐾 🦔 it’s been so busy…….

We are currently using large volumes of puppy pads, canin puppy mousse and canin puppy milk, kitten biscuits. We fund everything ourselves including medication for these little prickles and big ones too 🦔

Our Lloyds Account for those who have asked 🤗 wether it’s a one off or regular payment
Our details are
Lloyd’s Bank
Helping Hogs
30-99-50
13947463

Thank you from the hoglets 🦔🦔
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18/07/2024

This is Harry (update Harriet 🫣)she’s giving me the run around 🦔🐾🐾🐾 came in to rescue at just 144g and started to gain weight then decided she didn’t want to eat 🐾🐾 we tried buddying her up with little Ickle, but didn’t work out 🦔🦔❤️ Ickle didn’t want to snuggle 🤗 he sleeps during the day, then comes to life at night but instead of eating she runs riot. 🦔🐾🐾🐾🐾
We’ve gone back to shringe feeding this little mischief and hope it inspires her to eat… it often happens with hoglets just hoping there is nothing underlying but we are checking 💩

Cross everything for this little dude 🦔

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17/07/2024

Our latest hoglets are pretty well travelled one from a car park in Burnley the other on the way back from Halifax 🦔🦔🦔 some hoglets were found too late, just too poorly and didn’t make it 🥲 it really is important to get them to us as soon as seen they are seen out in the day 🐾🐾🐾 under 250g their chances to survive without their momma are slim🦔🦔
They have gone over the rainbow bridge
George 🌈 🦔
Declan🌈🦔
Freya🌈🦔
Sadly after 10 days fight fluke finally took Olive 🌈🦔

We’ve managed to take in several more and most are doing well 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔
Newbies
Derek 🦔
Fern 🦔
Harry 🦔
Ickle 🦔
Joy 🦔

We said farewell to Pippin 🦔 one of Pats hoglets , 🙏Jo for releasing her stay safe 🦔

Hoglets we’ve had in care since tiny we are chunking up we should be able to released them soon 🦔🦔🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🦔

Wilbur🦔
Teasel 🦔
Yo Yo 🦔
Peanut🦔
Waffle🦔
Aspen🦔
Venus🦔
Birdie🦔
Dexter🦔
Fergie🦔
Bluey🦔
Wilma🦔
Miss Piggy 🦔
Charlie 🦔

Edwin’s eye is now visible his wound is healing although battling fluke and lungworm. We have everything crossed 🤞
Lord Snuffles really does appear to have hibernated 🤷‍♀️

It’s been hard turning away hogs in need whilst we’ve been caring for so many, but we’ve still managed to advise on how to get help 🦔

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16/07/2024

A hedgehog out in the day is sometimes ok 🦔🦔🐾🐾 worth noting 🦔

15/07/2024

If you have little visitors 🦔🦔 to your garden or want to encourage hedgehogs 🦔🦔🦔 providing them with shelter and food is the best way …….its been such a wet start to the year a nice warm nest can mean so much to a nesting hedgehog …….we have developed these hog houses to help with releasing so many hedgehogs that have been in care 🐾 🐾
Our Hog houses are now back in stock ……..we’d virtually sold out we’ve been busy making more hedgehog houses from pallets donated. We have only one left in the all green, we also have one matching two entrance feeding station 🦔🦔🦔🦔

We have several houses in orange with green roof and one matching feeding station

A lovely little sheltered porch area, to keep out the weather, an alley way seperate to the bedding area to discourage other species from using the house.

And a wonderfully sized bedding area, that takes a fantastic amount of bedding.

The beauty of these hedgehog houses, is not only are they made from mostly recycled items, but they are designed for bigger hedgehogs.

Many houses on the market are just too small and don’t stand up the the typical British weather!

They are only £35 each! Every penny goes to the care of hedgehogs 🦔
If you would like to place an order please get in touch either message or email us at [email protected] to arrange payment and collection, from either Paythorne or Settle

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14/07/2024

Update ⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 now I wish I hadn’t 🤷‍♀️🫤

Just going to leave these cuties here 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔for those that don’t want to watch the football ⚽️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 They’ve been fed 😁

I am going to watch the match 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 😁⚽️

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08/07/2024

We are working on one out one in 🦔🦔

One out was Lucky 🍀 the cow pat momma, she was desperate to go we put her in a house last night and she was off 🦔🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾stay safe Lucky hopefully don’t produce any more little cow pats for a Little while 🦔🦔🦔🦔
The hoglets shouldn’t be long they are gaining nicely

In was Charlie from Earby last night not sure what he’s been up but caked in mud his 💩 doesn’t look too clever well we will see what we find 🔬 !

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07/07/2024

Mrs Tiggywinkle is Helping Hogs this year at the Settle Plant Pot Festival

Please come see her 🙏

Are you 🤔

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