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If you have found an injured or orphaned hedgehog, click here for advice on what action to take.
Hedgehog Information
The hedgehog information pages give details of hedgehogs, what they eat, how they survive, how to garden for them and other useful information.
Hedgehog Rescue is a voluntary group of individuals who care for sick, injured and orphaned hedgehogs, within our own homes in the South Gloucestershire., Bath, Somerset & Bristol.
Co-ordinated by Yvonne Cox, hedgehog carers look after the animals in their own homes, with many funding their own work. But some carers have so many hedgehogs to look after, they need financial support, so the money raised from talks, adoptions, donations and sales go to help the carers pay for food, cages and medications etc.
Many hedgehogs are killed and injured every day in Britain. As well as the pain and suffering these animals endure, many young babies are left orphaned and have to be hand-reared before release.
As well as the road kills every year, humans are also responsible for many hedgehog deaths and injuries through the irresponsible disposing of litter, habitat destruction and the use of garden tools & chemicals.
REXEL is doing well after his operation to staple him back together after being opened up from armpit to tail. The cut was about 1” to 1 ½ “ deep and infected. This was probably caused by a strimmer. He will remain with Yvonne as an education hedgehog & live as naturally as possible.
We hope you enjoy browsing the pages and that you learn more about our spiky friends.
We would welcome your support - why not adopt a hedgehog or send a donation to us.
Hedgehog Carers
Find out how fullfilling it it is to look after a hedgehog by becoming a hedgehog carer in Bristol.
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Adopt a Hedgehog
Support our work by adopting a hedgehog. All adopters receive a certificate and hedgehog goodies.
Visit our on-line Shop
The Snuffalogue has lots of hedgehog and wildlife goodies such as pin badges, puppets, cards, household items and many other gift ideas and collectibles.
All proceeds go to our work.
For more rescue news please go to the adoptions page.
Lucy:Thank you very much again for your visit. Lots of families have said how much they enjoyed your talk and how much they learned from you.
Hilary: We would all like to thank you very much we had a really good time - you made it such a fun evening (as well as being very informative and well demonstrated, we loved all the little exhibits!) You are doing a fantastic job in conserving the dear old hedgehog, who now sadly, seems to be endangered - we all now know a lot more about how to help save them from needless harm and death. I find it so sad that making our lives easier always seems to make things worse for wildlife.