How to Care for Hedgehogs

     Read more about The Hedgehog in YOUR garden

• What to do with any sick or injured hedgehogs you find

• Some basic First Aid and Medical hints and tips

• Specific Ringworm treatments

• Why Hedgehogs hibernate and how to make it safe for them

• Buy or build a hedgehog House or nest box

• How to prevent other animals like Dogs, Cats or Foxes stealing the hedgehog’s food.

• Rearing Babies

• Overwintering Juveniles

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

If you want to attract and keep hedgehogs in your garden you need to do a few simple things

• Follow the guides on the Garden page that show you how to make a hedgehog friendly garden

• Put out some food for it as shown on the What to feed them on page

• Keeping captive or pet hedgehogs

• See http://www.hogwatch.org.uk/  for latest news and maps showing the very few  hedgehogs still seen

• Print out and distribute these posters and tell all your friends to do the same 

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