
BHPS Hedgehog Awareness Week 2021
Hedgehog Awareness Week runs from 2nd – 8th May this year and it aims to raise the profile of the Britain’s only spiny mammal. This year people are being asked

Hedgehog Awareness Week runs from 2nd – 8th May this year and it aims to raise the profile of the Britain’s only spiny mammal. This year people are being asked

Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen headed up a team of researchers from Aalborg University, Natural History Museum of Denmark – University of Copenhagen and WildCRU, University of Oxford to investigate scientifically

Please do not ever try to ‘have a go’ at looking after sick or injured hogs yourself. This female hog came to us this morning, having been found last October

Little Peter, who had an operation to repair a hernia, has made a good recovery and had his stitches out this morning. He will be ready for release soon.

We’re having a busy time of it lately, and today is no exception – 30 plus phone calls, seven new entries and 5 released to the wild today so far.

Please do not mark hedgehogs with paint, especially red paint – we have just had this hog brought in “with blood all over its back” only to find it is

We had a hog brought in to us the other day after it was seen on a wildlife camera dragging one of its hind legs. He had a healed wound

We had these fellas for a short while yesterday, collected from Upton vets and held for Wildlife in Need. Tracy wasted no time in holding the fluffy ducklings. Sadly mum

Little Heath is coming on well. His skin condition is all but cleared up and the sores have healed. There are signs of new spike growth too. He will continue