Please be aware of hedgehogs and other wildlife if you are starting to clear up your garden ready for Spring – we have already had our first strimmer casualty of the year, as have many other hedgehog rescues.
Please check the area before using strimmers or other garden machinery as there could be hedgehogs, mice, frogs, toads, newts, lizards etc in the long grass or undergrowth.
Last night we said a fond but tearful farewell to Colin, the hog we have in our care longer than any other.
He came to us as a juvenile aged approx 4-5 months on the evening of 23rd August 2018, after being trapped between two brick walls below ground level for five days. He appeared to have walked along or climbed over a garden wall and fallen into the 6inch gap behind, trapping him against a garage wall. In that time he had tried frantically to climb out, but at a depth of around 3ft below the garden level this was impossible. The frantic scratching to climb out resulted in him losing all the claws on his front feet and the tip of some of the toes.
These guys and Girls are in our ‘soft release’ pens in the garden getting acclimatised prior to being fully released. We have already returned a few to where they came from, and have loads left to do. This process will take us a while to get through all the hogs we have (107), but is what we are about – rescue, rehabilitate and release.
Two hog have been taken ready for release later this evening when it darkens up a bit, Sadie and Pikachu
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