Hedgehog Stories & Pictures

This is where we will show photos and videos of the hedgehogs & tell you something about many of the hedgehogs we have rescued, hand reared or otherwise treated.

We will show and explain how we treat them for various ailments and injuries and how to hand rear a baby hedgehog

We also have some images of some of the hedgehogs who come up to our backdoor for food during the year. It is important to keep on feeding them all through the winter period as even now in December they are still coming for food and water. They were taken with a security monitoring camera so some of the images are not as clear as I would like.

Hedgehog Stories Click on the small image to be taken to a page about that hedgehog
Rowley	Snuffles	Feeding Babies
Rosie	Ellie	The Trio
Softy	Joy	The 5
Fungus	More of the 5	A very thin weak hedgehog with only 3 legs
A selection of pictures of  baby hedgehogs and mums with babies	Gallery2
Gallery Click on the small image to be taken to full size image
2 hedgehogs having an small argument over food	While watching this hedgehog having a drink of water it was noticed that only one eye could be seen clearly. When we grabbed it we found a grass seed embedded in the left eye that was keeping it closed. The grass seed was removed and eye ointment given and after a couple of days treatment she was released and still comes for food regularly	One of the hedgehogs coming for food
Some baby hedgehogs that we reared. Their mum was one of our previous patients that we had hand reared last year and released into our back garden late in Summer 2004 where she stayed for most of the Winter and Spring. We hadn't seen her for a couple of months. She came back one night in early July 2005 in a dreadful state with a terrible wound that looked like a strimmer injury that was so badly infected and she was terribly dehydrated and almost totally collapsed. The babies could barely walk and had only just got their eyes open so mum must have pushed or carried them with her last tiny bit of strength. She trusted us and knew that she would get help from us so had bought them where they would be safe. Unfortunately the mum died on the way to the vet that night The babies are called Mimsy, Hoshi, Dax and Bee
Mimsy, Hoshi, Dax and Bee at about 4 weeks old	Mimsy, Hoshi, Dax and Bee at about 4 weeks old	Mimsy, Hoshi, Dax and Bee at about 4 weeks old
Mimsy, Hoshi, Dax and Bee at about 4 weeks old	Dax at about 4 weeks old	Mimsy, Hoshi, Dax and Bee at about 4 weeks old
A baby hedgehog that was bitten by a dog, we are seeing more & more injuries like these from dogs.
This is the wound just cleaned up a bit and washed to get all the dirt out	This is the wound just cleaned up a bit and washed to get all the dirt out	This is the wound just cleaned up a bit and washed to get all the dirt out. You can see on the bigger pictures how deep & large it is
This is the wound just cleaned up a bit and washed to get all the dirt out	This is the wound just cleaned up a bit and washed to get all the dirt out	This is the wound just cleaned up a bit and washed to get all the dirt out
After the Vet had spent a long time cleaning and repairing internal damage and stitching it up	After the Vet had spent a long time cleaning and repairing internal damage and stitching it up	After the Vet had spent a long time cleaning and repairing internal damage and stitching it up. It will almost certainly leave a nasty scar and bald patch
After the Vet had spent a long time cleaning and repairing internal damage and stitching it up	After the Vet had spent a long time cleaning and repairing internal damage and stitching it up

The first few are mum (Candy) with the babies. She was under treatment with us and we didn't realise she was pregnant until she delivered a litter of babies. When she was recovered enough we put her & the babies (they were about 2 weeks old then) in our enclosed garden. The next few pictures are some of the babies running around in daylight in the garden, as it isn't uncommon for babies to explore a safe area in daylight near their nest. We left them for a few days but when they stopped sleeping with her and were spending too much time running around in daylight we decided it was time to bring them in and the last few pictures are them indoors They are all about the size of a mouse (around 100-120 grams) now so they were very tiny when running in the garden All 4 are boys and they are now 6 weeks old so will be with us over the winter as they are very unlikely to be big enough to release until spring
Mum and 4 babies	Mum and 4 babies	Mum and 4 babies
Mum and 4 babies	Baby wandering and exploring in the enclosed garden	Baby wandering and exploring in the enclosed garden
Baby wandering and exploring in the enclosed garden	Baby coming for a drink of water in daylight	Baby coming for a drink of water in daylight
Baby coming for a drink of water in daylight	Baby coming for a drink of water in daylight	Baby wandering and exploring in the enclosed garden
Baby wandering and exploring in the enclosed garden	Baby wandering and exploring in the enclosed garden	Baby wandering and exploring in the enclosed garden
Baby wandering and exploring in the enclosed garden	The same babies taken indoors as they had been rejected by mum and were too small to be left alone	The same babies taken indoors as they had been rejected by mum and were too small to be left alone
The same babies taken indoors as they had been rejected by mum and were too small to be left alone	The same babies taken indoors as they had been rejected by mum and were too small to be left alone	The same babies taken indoors as they had been rejected by mum and were too small to be left alone
The same babies taken indoors as they had been rejected by mum and were too small to be left alone