Castleford Hedgehog rescue - Charity No 1207102

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Castleford Hedgehog rescue - Charity No 1207102 Local rescue (not a sanctuary we do this at home) for sick and injured hedgehogs .We provide help and care they need.

If you find any contact us straight away for advice

*Disclaimer- any verbal abuse towards supporters will be banned from the page* We are a recent registered charity, we demote our lives to save hedgehogs, we have been helping hedgehogs for over 10 years! it all started with one hedgehog we found in our garden who was out in the day time, we took him to our local rescue which at the time was in D

ewsbury, they was completely full and asked us to care for him to which we said yes! we was in contact with the rescue every single day and then another hedgehog appeared during the day the same story goes until eventually we had 4!! 2 girls and 2 boys after a lot of time, the hedgehogs were ready to have their freedom so we released them back in our garden to where we found them originally, after they was gone we felt like something was missing and then we knew what our fate was, to devote our time and lives to save these amazing animals, after a year of being mentored we was ready to not rely so heavily on the rescue who made Castleford hedgehog rescue, a few years into it we got our first ever abandoned week old hoglet who we called BABY as he was never supposed to live but he did! he had around the clock care and we noticed we was spoiling him too much to the point he thought he was a dog! so guess what he stayed with us and terrorised me, from that day we have said never again to hand raising tiny babies so then came the amazing Louise! every now and then we will hand rear little pink beans but very differently then when we did baby hahaha we have learnt this lesson. hedgehogs are our lives and we want to help any many as possible and hope to regain the numbers of hedgehogs are they are sadly in decline

Sweet little tiny tim with a cut nose 🥺
24/06/2025

Sweet little tiny tim with a cut nose 🥺

24/06/2025

24/06/2025 Base 1 hedgehog updates (beth&jill)

Everyone from yesterday's update is doing great

Yesterday's admissions

Female from morley is doing good, found in the middle of the road, high temperature and head trauma, but responding great to medication already, ate everything overnight

Female from normanton found in a garden during the day, covered in ticks and very skinny, she's also doing great, she's tick free and eaten everything overnightand is currently eating her midnight snack

Little 2 week old hogley from chantry vets hospital, he was completely flat yesterday, but because the vet is incredible, they gave him life-saving fluids on admission so he's still with us this morning, he's taking hand feeds and toileting very well🥰

Massive thank you to our transport volunteers who collected these 3 hedgehogs for us, we appreciate you so much.

Today is going to be extremely busy we have messages and phone calls coming through every 10 minutes

23/06/2025

Hedgehogs at base 1 (Beth and Jill)

4 orphan babies (found by Emily) are all doing fantastic and now lapping by themselves and gaining weight. They don't need hand feeds anymore.

Kippax mum and 3 babies, disturbed when taking down a shed, all doing fantastic babies are independent now, mum can be released as she wants nothing to do with them, babies will stay so we can grow them up abit more before release, mum is stressed and more then ready to go.

Tim from Methley, who was skimmed by strimmer and hurt a little of his nose, He's getting better after responding to medication well, he likes to kick off, throw his rubber duck around and eats like a pig, not quite out of the woods just yet.

Dog bite from glasshoughton, she's doing extremely well, wounds are healing and she's eating very well, she's responded great to antibiotics, she just needs growing up a little then she's ready to be released.

Mum and 4 babies from normanton, she came in pregnant with breathing difficulties, she had a mass lungworm burden, responded great to the first 2 treatments, then gave birth, restarting medication today, babies are doing great all growing and being semi independent now.

Claire P, pregnant female with breathing difficulties, gave birth to 3 babies 1 passed away so she has 2 now they are extremely chunky, mummy's breathing is back to normal can he released with her babies very soon.

Jane's boy from pontefract with the injured front leg, the one that my boyfriend Patrick found straight away he's completely healed and ready to go back home (just waiting on the weather to be better) may contact you today or tomorrow 🥰

Horace found by Amanda, he's fantastic, he's ready to come back home, and I will contact you possibly today or tomorrow.

Male that was breathing extremely loud doesn't have a finder. We found him in a box on the floor in the shed he's on and off, mystery case, but he's doing well at the moment

Male with head trauma found locally, doing fantastic responded great to medication, no signs of lasting injuries he can be released, (most head traumas can go blind due to the brain being affected)

Pregnant female found by Sue, down on love Lane castleford, doing fantastic can be released.

Neurological Male from base 2 then nic, he's doing really well, he's staying with us

Sandra H female with ear infections, she's complex no more infection, stool sample showed 1 parasite that's been treated but she's still abit off so she's going to stay here until she's 100%

Female from riverside Medical Centre castleford, doing extremely well, she's ready to be released

Pregnant female with an infected mouth gave birth to 5 babies. The day after coming into rescue, she lost all the babies due to the infection. She's now ready to go back home, she's all better

3 males brought in last year as juveniles are now ready to be released they're brothers

Louise's baby she found in her pond, she's ready to go back home she's gained lots of weight, thank you for making your pond extremely safe now 💜

Little skinny female came in 5/5/25 - still on medication but improving lots! She'll be ready in no time

John- castleford, little tripod girl, she's healed up and will join our disabled girls very soon

Very dehydrated pregnant female, and she is still very pregnant. She can be released she's all better. She is being relocated as the area is not safe for her.

3 babies from cutsyke 2 had massive maggots and fly eggs. All 3 are fantastic and are growing 🥰 they came out of the ICU last night and are enjoying playing with their rubber ducks on a night time, no more hand feeds they are independent

Bruno, one of our disabled boys, had his surgery a few days ago wasn't doing well at all. But is now eating little bits. He may need to go back to the vets

1008g dehydrated female can be released she is being relocated due to the area not being wildlife friendly

Female from York, she has club foot on her front left leg, copes well once she's finished her medication she will join our disabled girls

Hoppy, was taken to our vet, vets did a amputation on her and we collected her that day, she isn't doing great, unfortunately sometimes hedgehogs just cannot cope with 3 legs and in this case we believe she isn't coping, will discuss options with our vet on her welfare

Fryston Road Male, ready to go he's all healed and ringworm free

Strimmer victim from sharlston, he's all healed and ready to go

Male with injured front leg with bone exposure, he's all healed he's lost a toe but he's good to go, ready to be a wild boy again

Betty had a leg amputation a few weeks ago she's healed amazingly and is coping she will join our disabled girls in the next few days

Jane CB, female with back leg injury, she's all healed, but something isn't right. She'll be staying, and unfortunately, she is left disabled so she'll join our disabled girls

Not even going to mention trixie. Sorry , but she's the devil

Male that was injured by another male from fighting he's all healed and ready to go

Little baby boy who came in yesterday morning he's doing okay and had eaten over night and made a big mess lol

Little baby boy who came in a few days ago at 115g is doing okay he has adopted siblings unfortunately both finders want them back so they won't be released together when old enough

Nick, had a amputation 3 days ago he's doing great will be finding him a forever garden very soon

4 baby boys 2 had hernias, 1 had a bad leg and the other was great lol all 4 we're freezing cold and very hungry at 2 weeks old, now independent doing absolutely fantastic!

This one is sad. 5 babies only 2 survived the other 3 died of a awful awful parasite called coccidia luckily these 2 responded fantastic to medication and are doing extremely well, now off hand feeds and eating by themselves

Baby girl with the nose injury she's very poorly hopefully the medication will kick in soon!

Little boy who was born at base 2 and was rejected by mum, we know why he was rejected and left to die, he is defective, he is neurological and needs full hands on to which we are going, hopefully medication for this will improve him so far so good, eating by himself but also has hand feeds

Little miss twinkle, few days old came in Saturday morning found by louise who found her on a path, we believe mum accidentally dropped her while moving nests, she's doing great, toileting and taking feeds, not out of the woods until she's 4 weeks old she's still has white quills and pink skin but some normal coloured quills are coming through 🥰

Disabled girls, all doing fantastic all still very grumpy

All last year's handrears are ready to be released too they're all wild up and not biting ankles anymore

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23/06/2025

WE DO NOT TOLERATE ANY ABUSE

if you message or call us screaming and shouting and saying abusive words, you will be blocked. Updates are not a priority to us. We are EXTREMELY busy. We have hundreds of hedgehogs in our care that are our main priority.

If you scream and shout at me down the phone, expect it back!

We do what we do for free. We get 0 money ourselves to put up with abusive people 👍

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Here's an interesting fact we've just learnt!Hedgehogs are immune to some toxins—including certain snake venoms! In the ...
23/06/2025

Here's an interesting fact we've just learnt!

Hedgehogs are immune to some toxins—including certain snake venoms! In the wild, this helps them survive bites from venomous snakes, which would be deadly to many other animals of their size. Scientists believe this immunity is due to unique proteins in their blood that neutralize toxins.

MILK KILLS HEDGEHOGS did you know hedgehogs are lactose intolerant, so by offering them a bowl of milk, you are slowly k...
22/06/2025

MILK KILLS HEDGEHOGS

did you know hedgehogs are lactose intolerant, so by offering them a bowl of milk, you are slowly killing them, please just give them a shallow bowl of water you can even use a take away tub that you've thrown in the back of the cupboard 😉

❌️ MILK
✅️ WATER

YAY RAIN!!! we've never been so happy to see rain! Woohooo!!!Enjoy this photo of a cuddle party while it rains 😁😁😁
22/06/2025

YAY RAIN!!!

we've never been so happy to see rain! Woohooo!!!

Enjoy this photo of a cuddle party while it rains 😁😁😁

⬇️🌟 Castleford Hedgehog Rescue just had a generous donation of £29.76 from a lucky winner! 🥰 Thank you so much Mx H! Sup...
22/06/2025

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🌟 Castleford Hedgehog Rescue just had a generous donation of £29.76 from a lucky winner! 🥰 Thank you so much Mx H!

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🙏 Thank you for all of your support!

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Keep those bowls of water  topped up , it's a life saver for all wildlife ###
20/06/2025

Keep those bowls of water topped up , it's a life saver for all wildlife ###

20/06/2025

Just a baby washing his mammy

* That noise is coming from mammy she has scarred lungs from an extremely heavy burden of lungworm, she's okay 😊*

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