Wath Hedgehog Rescue and Rehabilitation.

29/11/2025

🦔🥰inmate updates/New intake🥰🦔

Sharon-
Rambler has lungworm is -4 and have started on meds 🙏
Terry who was hibernating got up so weighed him 680 so gained not lost
Bailey semi hibernating 744👍
Zippy bit picky about food so not giving him the star shaped ones will weigh tomorrow
Harriet needs one more course of lev but is fine x👍

Joanne-
Ruby’s thriving! She's now a proper little night owl, snoozing all day and exploring after midnight. She's up to 651g this week and has gained 19g in just seven days. Go on girl 🦔✨🦔

Kate update
Saffy has had a stable week weight wise not much gain but not much loss either. Last night saffy took her biscuit bowl into her nest, I like her thinking, food and warmth in one place 😂
Elm
Has settled well, hes a messy hog, his crate looks like there's been a house party every night, 💩, food and drink and bedding everywhere 😂 party hedgehog 🤣

Becci update:
Kit is doing well and seems to be hibernating now.
Rush passed over but was really poorly and gave up fighting 😢
Peppy and Marble arrived yesterday, both seem to be hibernating too.
Marble is only staying a short time whilst another carer is having a holiday

Jo @ Oakwell Updates;

Admittances;
Wednesday I had Herbert brought in he was OITD and his 2nd 💩 sample showed lungworm so treatment has begun.

General;
George is up and down with weight and decided he wants to sleep in the middle of cage after taking all bedding out 🙇‍♀️
Susan is still moving up the weight charts and loves to 💩 up side of cage.
Bean, 😍 very grumpy this week and hates weigh ins.
Rupert very messy and raring to go 😍
Maddie, good weight gains but 💩 sample again today as chesty.
Fred is grumpy and wants out 🤪

Pudsley back on lungworm treatment 😍
Slinky making good progress.
Rubble, 🥰 raring to go but needs more weight.
Sammy still a messy cage trasher but making progress.
Jim loves to 💩 as high as possible and progress is being made.
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Hannah is a greedy guts and loves her food.
Toni, still having skin problems and daily treatments.

Updates from Sean Kimberworth Park Base

Admitted
Thursday I had a juvvie in from Wickersley OITD 257g Male only just breathing and struggling to get up , didn’t have chance to do a 💩 check as he went over the 🌈🦔😢 gave meds and fluids but just too late R I P little one
General
Sadly Snowflake died on Monday after losing loads of weight over 3 days nothing in 💩 sample
Tank was a worry as he refused to eat and wouldn’t come out he was losing weight fast and yet again nothing in the 4 💩 samples I did and sadly passed away Friday R I P Tank 🌈🦔😢
Sonny is upto 543g now and looks a totally different hedgie from getting him in in September at 111g
Ray came into me in October at 277g and now a massive 743g and doing good with no worries at all
Gousto was doing well and started with horrible 💩 so a check was done and he as lungworm so meds started
Not been a good week for me with 🦔🌈

Update from Lesley. Tina had a tiny cough the other morning so she was checked over by Sean. He found a tiny bit of cap in her poo so gave her some meds. She seems to be okay now. Still in luxury in my back bedroom but I still get the impression she's not totally happy. Tut, they can be such fusspots 🤣

Update from Chelle
No change with my lot. Poppet is still snoozing. Norman is still making a mess, and Rascal is making good progress, but he is an incredibly shy hog, so I rarely see him.

Christa
I have Gilmore! 😍🦔 Doing super well, very cheeky, putting on weight now 614g! ⭐️

Henrietta 619
Odin 656
These two are the slowest gainers I’ve ever had😏

Rebecca
Francis, Kirkby, Diane, Rupert, Conker, mad max and Cathy are all eat sleep poo repeat with odd party nights. Kirby is still healing and Francis is still hanging onto a tiny bit of ringworm, but other than that a good week.

Chief Prickles Debs
Firstly, we would like to welcome Anna to the cleaning crew. Anna is participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Brinze award, so she has decided to volunteer with us.
Anna is already a junior release garden for us, but this gives her hand a on experience of caring for them before they reach rescue
Stage. 🦔⭐️🦔

Monday we had little Billie 330g come into us. OITD and really struggling. Wath Medivets checked him over and he has a broken hip.
Bring an all important female and after discussing all options , myself and the vets have decided to manage her with pain and
The capillaria parasites she has, give her a chance. If any changes or we feel she is suffering in any way, she will go back and be 🌈 . So for now everything crossed for Billie.
Shirley came in Thursday at at tiny 235g. She was skinny and OITD. Poor Shirley had capillaria and pas d over the hedgie 🌈bridge on Wednesday . She was just too poorly for us to save but she was safe,warm and loved 😢🌈
Friday saw Bert/Beatrix come in at 348g and out in the day. Poor hedgie was frozen and not responding well . After fluids and a lovely warm in the incubator, he/she passed
Over the bridge. Too late to save you little one but you were safe warm and loved🌈😢
Inmates
Maybel, Hetty, Michael and Sylvia have had a fantastic week despite battling nasty parasites. They have all added over 150g since last Thursday. Well done to the Quads. 🦔⭐️
Lady has been for a check up of her leg and amputation site. Nothing bad but we do need the swelling to go down. Come on lady🦔🙏
Sniff is a super good eater and has made great progress. He has finished meds now so eat sleep 💩 repeat for Sniff⭐️

If anyone would like to donate to the rescue we are short on brambles dry and semi moist biscuits, purina 1 kitten biscuits (pink bag) any meat/poultry cat biscuits.
Every bag of food, every newspaper all helps us help the hedgies.

We will also be at the Wath Christmas light switch on, with a stall full of hedgehog gifts and crafts.

Billies X-ray showing the break on the right hand side😢

25/11/2025

Please vote for us 🦔👍🦔

✨🦔 November Giveaway for Wildlife Rescues 🦔✨

We’re giving 5 Wildlife Rescues the chance to receive a Brambles bundle packed with nutritious hedgehog food:

🦔 4 x 2kg Brambles Crunchy Hedgehog Food
🦔 24 x Brambles Meaty Hedgehog Food (tins)
🦔 4 x 1.3kg Brambles Semi-Moist Hedgehog Food

To enter, simply nominate your favourite rescue in the comments ⬇️

Entries close 26th November at 11am.

✨ Important: Brambles Pet & Wildlife will never contact you asking for details. We will only announce winners publicly on our page.

24/11/2025

I know lots of you have cameras set up in your gardens🦔👍🦔

🏅Competition time! 📣 Help us spot hedgehogs in our camera images and you could win a NatureSpy camera.

Teams of volunteers have placed our cameras at sites all over Britain, and now we need citizen scientists like you to help by spotting hedgehogs and other wildlife in the images generated.

We need to know what species are in the photos, so we rely on volunteers called ‘Spotters’ to help us identify what animals are pictured. This helps us to know which pictures to analyse. It’s good fun, and you never know what species will show up!

Fancy having a go? 🏆👀 The more images you classify between now and 31st December, the more entries into the prize draw, so the better your chances of winning! Find out more 👇
www.hedgehogstreet.org/nhmp-spotting-competition

The National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme is led by us and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.

23/11/2025

Please ask a rescue for help. 🦔👍🦔

22/11/2025

🦔🥰Inmate updates/New Intake🥰🦔

Sean (Kimberworth Park)
Admitted
Sunday I had a 365g one in very lethargic and not responding to touch and sadly went over the 🌈 , thanks to Sophie from Rawmarsh for scooping it up R I P little one
Wednesday I had Gousto in 339g , 💩 was a horrible free/brown and had clumps of jelly white stuff in it too , 💩 was checked and is riddled with Capillaria and also has a bad chest with lung worm , meds started so 🤞🦔
Thursday I got Snowflake in at 329g from Kimberworth Park in finders garden at first glance looks fit and healthy but on a 💩 check was loaded with Capillaria another one on meds , thanks to Michael from Kimberworth Park for getting the help it needs , also thank you for your kind donation
Inmates were all doing fine but then Tank as took a turn for the worse losing lots of weight so now on different meds for fluke and giardia come on Tank 🤞
Ray is nearly upto 700g but won’t be going for release anytime soon with this weather
Sonny as finally made it over the 400g
A big thank you to Carl our builder who as put proper electric down in my shed so now I have proper sockets and lights

Cheryl over in kiverton park is having a “Q” spell but her wildies are out and about.

Rush the little juvvie was taken to Becci in Mexbrough last night, he is on his way into wath base for a check up and poo check. Came in yesterday at 315g and lost last night to 279g, so something isn’t right🙏🦔

Sharon (elsecar)
All ok Terry not surfacing so having a snooze
Harriet 604 gaining well
Zippy 598
Bailey will weigh later but no concerns, making progress 👍

Lesley (Thorpe Hesley)
Tina has moved from the cold shed to the plush warm bedroom, up and down week but with moving and the weather recently, it’s expected.

Chief Prickles Debs (wath)
The week started with the loss of little Russel, which shocked me as he seemed to be doing so well since coming in, Sorry Margi, I couldn’t save him 🌈😢
Sniff came in Sunday from of our big hedgie fans Lynn Walton in wombwell , who wondered if sniff was walking “high” (this is caused by pain from parasites)
Sniff has given clear poo samples for 4 days before we finally found capillaria and lung worm. He is now being treated for both. Come on little Sniff 👍
Thursday saw the arrival of 3 juvvies from the same litter in Maltby.
Well spotted Ann and Nigel, these scamps shouldn’t be out in the day.
Hetty 368g has got lung worm and capillaria 😢
Michael 495g has got lung worm😢
Sylvia 450g has lingworm😢
All started on meds.
Sibling number 4 arrived Friday afternoon 381g Maybel. She has lung worm and capillaria. Now started medication.
Thank you also for your donations Anne and Nigel. 🦔⭐️🦔
Lady has had a better week and stabliseMedivetaMedivetving a toe removed.
Thank you to Cathryn and Cornelia for all the special care and time you have given.
(Such a lovely team at Medivet 🦔⭐️🦔

22/11/2025

🦔🥰 Inmate updates/New Intake🥰🦔

Part 1

Joanne (kimberworth)
Little Ruby is doing so well! She’s gaining weight and has put on 54 grams this week and now weighs 632g. She’s so much happier now she’s indoors where it’s nice and warm. The shed was far too cold for this tiny lady 🦔💛🦔 (super proud of Joanne, your both doing fantastically) cp

Rachel (Barnsley)
Gradually gaining weight are Odin and Henrietta, both just under 620g at last weigh in, weighing them once or twice a week now as no need to do daily

Jo @ Oakwell Updates;

Admittances; Slinky was brought in by Emma, 💩 sample showed nothing, weight was initially lost but weight is slowly gaining.

General;
George is a 🌟 and gaining weight.
Susan is using wall of cage as a toilet and loves trashing her cage 😐
Bean, 😍 is a grumpy hog now who dislikes his weigh ins but loves Pedigree Puppy food 😍
Rupert 😍 special 🦔 but trashes his cage every night.
Maddie is gaining weight and a gorgeous hog.
Fred is making excellent progress and very tidy.
Pudsley has now completed his lungworm treatment and his 💩 is clear. 👏.
Gilmore is another slightly messy hog who is making progress.
Rubble has lost this week 🙄 but nothing showing in 💩.
Sammy 🤪 our very own chief cage trasher, 5 mins max after clean out for him to trash.
Jim, 😍 weight being gained and loves his food.
Hannah, 😍 this young lady loves her dinner and gaining weight.
Toni, still on treatment for skin issues which will carry on until she is clear.
🦔⭐️🦔
I would like to welcome Christa, who will be assisting in looking after a hog starting tomorrow. Welcome to the team Christa
🦔⭐️🦔

Rebecca (consibrough)

peppy is slow and steady at adding weight,
Casper had a loss but adding weight again, he’s a fussy eater and only eats cat pouches which I need more of,
Elm who’s with Becci his brother Ash came but sadly passed 2 days later,
Little Diane is a yoyo but adding
Francis hasn’t been out of his bed for 3 nights,
Kirkby nearing 1kg and wound healing nicely,
Rupert/Ruby is one messy hog, big eater bigger 💩
Last night Conker and mad max came Conker didn’t eat but is intermittently eating as starting the big sleep,
Mad max drove me mad trying to escape by scratching his way out and trashed his cage 💩 everywhere…….

Helen- (Wombwell)
Cath, Marble and Spike have made good gains this week. All now looking nicely plump and behaving quite well, although Cath likes to stick her 💩 to the cage sides, grrrr.
Tiggy is still struggling a bit with lungworm and weight is yo-yoing. 2nd dose of meds this weekend will hopefully sort him out. He's a real cutie, curious and lively so 🤞he's soon on the mend.

Update from Chelle.

There's not much happening this week.

Poppet has decided to hibernate and has been asleep for the last 4 nights.

Norman is still making a mess and causes chaos every night.

Rascal has gained most of his spines back, and finally, his fur is coming back, too.

Thank you to Denise L and Rupert B for the Amazon wish list items. It felt like Christmas this week, Amazon were here that much 🤣⭐️🦔
Please remember to keep putting out food and water, hedgies may not hibernate yet and there are lots of juveniles out there that need your help. 🦔👍🦔

22/11/2025

Please vote for us 🦔⭐️🦔

✨🦔 November Giveaway for Wildlife Rescues 🦔✨

We’re giving 5 Wildlife Rescues the chance to receive a Brambles bundle packed with nutritious hedgehog food:

🦔 4 x 2kg Brambles Crunchy Hedgehog Food
🦔 24 x Brambles Meaty Hedgehog Food (tins)
🦔 4 x 1.3kg Brambles Semi-Moist Hedgehog Food

To enter, simply nominate your favourite rescue in the comments ⬇️

Entries close 26th November at 11am.

✨ Important: Brambles Pet & Wildlife will never contact you asking for details. We will only announce winners publicly on our page.

16/11/2025

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16/11/2025

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15/11/2025

🦔🥰 inmate updates/new intakes🥰🦔

Part 2

Update from Chelle

It's been a sad, emotionally draining week with 3 hoggies giving up the fight 🌈
On Saturday, I lost Riley 🌈. It was a complete shock as he seemed to be doing ok.

Then, on Sunday morning, I found Rowan had also gone 🌈. Another unexpected loss.

And then last night, I found PS3 had gone 🌈.

Now, onto more positive news. After weeks of treatment for ringworm, Rascal's spines have started to re-grow. He is eating well and gaining weight and has just moved into a big boy cage 😊

And, not much change from Norman and Poppet. Treatment continues on each of their skin issues. For big fellas at 1.5kg, they are remarkably tidy 😂

Jo @ Oakwell Updates;

Released early in the week was Davey, good luck 🦔

Admittances;
Fred came in from Christine and Rob who made a donation which was appreciated many thanks. Fred has been attacked by possibly a dog and looked like he had lost an eye, but antibiotics reduced swelling and he has both eyes 😍

General;
George is a star resident ✨️ and doing well and gaining weight slowly.
Susan is a scruffy hog🙄 and loves to 💩 in her feed dish.
Bean 😍 is grumpy 😠 and huffs at me but gaining weight and loving life.
Rupert is a 🥰 he is ready for release once Pauline is back from her holiday.
Maddie is still struggling with Lungworm but on meds and fighting. 🤞
Gilmore is doing ok and gaining slowly.
Pudsley has also tested positive for Lungworm and treatment ongoing.
Rubble once weather is better will be released 😍
Sammy 🙄 very dirty and trashes cage within 5 mins and slow with weight gain.
Jim has a new hobby to see how high he can 💩
Hannah has now finished her Lungworm treatment 🤞and gaining.
Toni, still having baths and sprays for skin issues, 💩 check today as she did cough as I was in room, of course after she had been cleaned out so waiting for 💩

Newspapers would be appreciated as I am running low and these hogs go through them at an alarming rate, can collect from most Barnsley areas.

Lesley
Update from lesley. Tina settling into my back bedroom for the cold spell. Think she prefers her shed though. Bless her.👍

Sharon
Terry had last dose of Ivo doing ok has had an occasional night when he has eaten little so put on heat pad clear poo . 632 so a way to go yet came from Sean so not sure of release instructions
Zippy 498 finished his meds yesterday arrived late oct 217
Harriet from Sean 368 dropped to 301 had cap n lungworm medicated.
Harrison sadly had gone over the hedgie rainbow bridge as he was just so poorly we could t save him. 🌈😢
Bailey doing well came from Wombwell infant school 271 late oct was treated for lungworm lwill weigh

tomorrow but was 582 and will have gained cos eaten plenty
Joy n Rosie am babysitting for Ann not sure for how long cos she is on hols but has had hand operation n is in pot

Joanne
Ruby is doing fantastically, I’m really proud of her. Keep going Ruby 💕

Debs-
Russel is yo-yoing his way through the days. He does eat very small amounts and is suffering with lung worm so come on little Russel you can do this🙏
Lady has been back to the vets and had a broken toe removed but her elbow and wounds on her leg and chin, have healed lovely . Back next week to check the toe area, but she’s doing great well done Lady and a Medivetnk you to Cornelia and Cathryn Medivetfor all your extra time and care with her 💕
That’s it from me as I’m playing nurse maid to the hubby after a big operation.

15/11/2025

🦔🥰Inmate updates/New intakes🥰🦔

Update from Becci

Peppy left to go back to Rebecca to settle in an outdoor hutch so Elm arrived in his place Elm struggled the first couple of days but finally had a big gain of over 40g yesterday so is now 423g and last night showed his fabulous nesting skills by shredding the entire floor of the cage and filling up his shoe box nest

Kit is steadily gaining and close to 500g now, he is the cleanest hedgehog I’ve had to date👍

Rebecca’s updates

My updates Peppy didn’t do well outside so back in and eating well 572g
Casper is loving life in the outside hutch and just waiting for the weather to be release suitable
Diane is a little yo-yo 🪀 and now on day 2 of gain again 282g
Kirkby 938g is healing really well and falls out with me with every clean blanket, he’s like my Libby the schnauzer digging his bed
Francis 707 and Rupert are both gaining slowly and super messy 💩🦔

Updates from Sean Kimberworth Park Base
Admitted
Monday I had Ken in from Parkgate out all day in the rain at side of road, stone cold and very lethargic he was a good size at 882g but sadly went over the 🌈 Wednesday night , had a very funny tar smell to him and fleas were just coming off him in their hundreds poor lad R I P Ken
Thursday I had little Sally 291g from Hillsboro very very poorly and another sadly went over the 🌈 within an hour of coming to me R I P Sally
General
Tank is starting to drop weight and needs another 💩 check but he is starting to sleep through some nights now (poo check in and capillaria so meds started 🙏)
Ray is doing amazing and piling the grams on now 559g
Sonny is starting to do well now and loves Brambles wet food and Royal Canin mother and baby biscuits now weighing 341g
Once again thank you for all donations given really does help 🦔🦔🦔

Update from Kate

Saffy has had a good week gaining weight everyday currently 554g, Saffy likes order in her crate, food in one bit 💩 in another and nest in another. Makes it nice and easy to keep clean. Saffy is not keen on being handled and grunts alot when being weighted, tried a half hearted escape attempt mid week, i think she secretly likes the pampered life!!

Update from Michelle
Conker is feeling better and seems to be doing well.
Mad Max has been with me a little over a week now. Apart from 1 night he is gaining weight well. He is a messy hedgehog and likes to think of his food and water bowls as his toilets 🤢
I am happy with how both of them are doing 😀

Update from Helen in Wombwell
Cath has now started to create daily 💩 wall art for me to admire, grrr, but is eat, sleep, repeat, as are Marble and Spike.
Tiggy had a few days of losing weight. A 💩 check showed he had lungworm so now being treated. Hopefully caught early and he should soon recover.

Thank you to Rupert for our Amazon wish list items🦔⭐️🦔

13/11/2025

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Help us making donations and purchases through our wish list through this link. The rescue benefits 🦔👍🦔

We rescue and rehabilitate British Wild Hedgehogs, in the Dearne valley area