Alma is a hedgehog who lost her left back leg

She can never be released into the wild as she could never find food & would die of starvation within days if not killed by something within a few hours.

She is a lovely sweet natured hedgehog who has suffered badly and deserves a chance for some happiness and a nice place to live.

She came to us in the middle of July 2007 when she was found when someone knocked down an old shed in their back garden where she had given birth to 3 tiny babies.

She was in a terrible condition, very thin with terrible diarrhoea and looked absolutely dreadful.

 When we examined her we found her left back leg had been chopped by a strimmer or other garden  power tool and this must have happened a short while before she gave birth as there was a hardened scab on the stump.

How she ever found enough food to feed herself, let alone produce enough milk for the babies, I will never know, but she barely had managed to and all 3 babies were alive though drastically underweight and small. I doubt if she or the babies would have lived for more than another day or two the state they were in, if they hadn't been found

The babies have grown enough to be weaned from her

Good food & constant nursing and care has got her to a healthy weight  and a more stable and healthy  condition where she will soon be able to go to a safe suitable garden

She has been a really good mum to the babies a deserves a chance to live in some comfort for the rest of her life

She must never be allowed to mate again or have any more babies because with the missing leg she really wouldn't be able to cope

We urgently need a very safe fully enclosed garden for her

By fully enclosed we mean either high solid brick walls all around or high solid wooden fences with either concrete or wooden gravel boards sunken into the ground deeply enough to stop a hedgehog digging its way out.

Can you offer her a good home

• Please only contact us to offer a home if you live very close to us. That means within the Epping Forest District area ( Loughton, Epping, Ongar), West Essex ( Brentwood, Harlow & Sawbridgeworth)  or East Hertfordshire (Bishops Stortford)  or other areas that are very close to us. If you live elsewhere please contact your local centre and offer them help

She will need all the conditions listed on the general adoption page plus a few others

• She needs a stable fairly flat garden where things won't keep changing where she will be able to potter around gently and eat the food that you will provide for her every day.

We often need good safe homes for other disabled hedgehogs

4th April 2008:

Alma has been found a good home and went to it today

We still always need homes for other disabled hedgehogs

This is Alma in her new home.

She has settled in well and is happy

John, who adopted her, sent us this photo showing her eating her favourite biscuits in the feeding station

Hopefully all the other hedgehogs will be as lucky and find such a nice person to look after them

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