All these are reliable sources of prescription and non-prescription medicines & drugs, food, accessories etc. for hedgehogs and other animals. Like all companies, prices change frequently as do special offers on popular products. When looking for food or medicines, search on all of the sites for the best price. Sometimes one of the sites will have a special offer on bulk food or multi-buys with free delivery. I have used all of these companies for various medicines, including wormers and rearing milk etc
Check our online Amazon Store for all your Hedgehog needs
If you have hedgehogs in your garden, please look after them
well. You are one of the very few lucky ones to still enjoy the
presence of these endangered animals
Hedgehogs are desperately short of food and water. They are very thin and
dangerously underweight. They are desperately looking for food. Put down
cat or dog food, cat or kitten biscuits,
peanuts, cheese etc. See diet page for
more advice. Put food and water down all the time.
Before moving or demolishing any sheds etc,
check carefully for hedgehogs underneath, inside or
alongside.
Before tidying or cutting shrubs and long grass
or piles of leaves, check carefully for sleeping
hedgehogs. Be very careful using a
strimmer or lawnmower.
If you see ANY
hedgehogs out in daylight of ANY
size, they will be injured, sick or starving and
need
URGENT
help so pick it up and ring for help IMMEDIATELY
Small or newly born baby hedgehogs that
are hungry or in distress make a noise that sounds like a smoke
alarm bleeping. If you hear that noise look carefully, find the
babies and call for help
How can I tell how old or big a
hedgehog is? or does it need help?
Click on the small image
for a full size picture
This one is 90 grams
and about 4 weeks old and slightly
bigger than a medium egg
Anything
this size seen out on its own needs to
be picked up straight away and kept warm.
Contact an
experienced carer,
rescue centre or Vet IMMEDIATELY
otherwise it will not survive
Another frequently asked question is " How do I
know if a hedgehog is thin and needing help or
plump and healthy? "
The hedgehog on the left is dangerously thin and
looks like a sausage, with flat spines, looks
lifeless and needs
urgent treatment
The one on the right is a healthy, well-fed
hedgehog in our enclosed garden having a treat
of special Esbilac milk we use to rear babies or
help to build up recuperating ones. See how she
is plump and round
See HERE for more
pictures and a clearer description on how to see
if a hedgehog is underweight and needing help
Attention ALL Hedgehog Lovers
Can you make a Donation?
My wife and I do what we can
to help them from
our small one bedroom flat. We pay for everything
from our very limited income and have no
money. We get no help from anybody or anywhere and pay for everything ourselves
Please don't forget
we are only volunteers who do this because we care for
them.
We can't do this alone
We need your help.
You can donate safely and securely by
using Paypal. Just click on the button below. Any
amount no matter how small is gratefully accepted and
desperately needed
To donate via PayPal when the button doesn't appear or the link doesn't work: just go to
www.paypal.com
or your country's paypal log in page and chose send money and use
help@thehedgehog.co.uk as recipient email address and select other service as the option, then follow prompts
We spend lots of money every month just on petrol picking up hedgehogs and
taking them to and from vets and the wildlife hospital for
emergency treatment.
Most people won't even give
20 pence towards the costs of picking up a hedgehog.
It only
takes £1 or £2 from you to help save a suffering or
dying hedgehog
If you would like to to donate
by mail or other means please see our
contact
page for details of how to help us or get in touch with
us. We urgently need Towels, bedding, food,
cardboard boxes etc. Please try and help us.
We deal with around 200 hedgehogs
every year
We spend a lot of
money on:
Hedgehog Food ( tinned meat & biscuits)
Medicines
Esbilac (special milk for babies & very ill
hedgehogs)
Electric bills ( heat pads, heating the pens
and the washing machine is always on with all the bedding)
Running this website is also expensive
We pay for everything ourselves. We need help
urgently.
If you like hedgehogs
Want to find out more about them and see
lots of photos or videos
Just want to chat to other people who
are interested in hedgehogs and other wildlife
Pop in to our help and advice forum where you can ask any
questions, discuss anything about hedgehogs or other wildlife
and get help and advice http://www.hedgehoghelp.co.uk
Take a look at lots of videos about hedgehogs including some wonderful close-ups of
hedgehogs feeding
We built this website because we were
"adopted" by several hedgehogs and want to share our experiences, make you more interested in hedgehogs and other
wildlife. and help YOU look after the hedgehog in YOUR garden
Lots of the information came from other Hedgehog
help sites and the various books that have been
written about hedgehogs. We have adapted the information in the
light of our own experiences.
If we cannot physically help you, we will try to put you
in touch with a local carer closer to you. Many of the links
on the right or on the links page
have good lists of Hedgehog carers and rescuers in most
parts of the UK.
This site gives advice and information about the
European Hedgehog ( Erinaceus Europaeus) which is a wild animal and not a pet.
We don't agree with keeping any wild animal as a pet. We do
accept that there are already quite a few African pygmy
Hedgehogs already in the UK that need help. For advice on keeping pet African Pygmy
Hedgehogs see:
http://www.hedgehogcentral.com/
Navigation
Please visit the other hedgehog sites below
All links open in a new window. Close that window to return
to this site
Janbrett.com
is good source of colouring pictures of hedgehogs
and has other good educational aids.
Images Information: You are welcome to use any of the photographs on here for any purpose to help hedgehogs. Please download them and use on your own site and not hotlink to here.
A link back to this site so your viewers can learn more about hedgehogs would be
much appreciated. Almost all of the cartoon hedgehogs are copyright and if you wish to use them then you need to buy a licence from the copyright holder
http://www.graphicgarden.com
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