A builder clearing out a garage before starting works found a nesting mother with two hoglets in. He did the right thing by scooping up mother and babies along with the nest, and placed them in a box before calling us.
The hoglets are no older than 48 hours, they are still pink and have white spikes.
They are all currently in a dark box with food and water for mum. We are hoping the stress of being disturbed and moved does not make her reject the hoglets, or worse.
This little chap is Robbie. He came to us at the end of February with a strimmer wound to the back of his head (you can see where his spikes have been cut by the strimmer in the photos below) and the worst case of pneumonia we’ve ever seen.
One of the hoglets we collected yesterday – the orphans are coming in thick and fast. This little fella weighed
This video by Robert Brittle, filmed last year, shows a hedgehog collecting nesting material. We will be seeing a lot
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