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.
Cuteness alert!
We managed a quick peek at one of the litters of hoglets last night while changing their mum’s food and water bowl.
These hoglets are 6 days old. We think there is possibly a 4th hoglet under mum.
It’s a bit late, but here are our figures for hedgehog numbers last year, far and away our busiest year,
Little Robbie, the hog with a strimmer injury and bad pneumonia, is doing very well. He has a new favourite
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