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Baby Hedgehog - Help

AndyP

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Anyone ever looked after a less than one week old hedgehog?
Have read plenty eg http://www.hedgehog-rescue.org.uk/babies.php

Found one in the street. Couldn't have possible got there on it's own. Eyes till shut. It is currently being kept warm while the missus is off to the chemist to find some suitable milk.

There does not appear to be the network of animal rescue centres in France so we are on our own until at least Tuesday.

Fingers crossed for the poor mite.

 
I can't advise, Andy, but that site looks very helpful. Careful with that cotton bud, now ;)

Your post did get me thinking about the decline of hedgehogs in the UK and I Googled one suggestion recently made..namely were badgers responsible seeing as how the badger population is increasing markedly. Came across this article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/e ... ehogs.html
 
poor little dude...my understanding is they BBQ really well :twisted:
 
Alas, I think we are too late. By the time the missus got back from the chemists there was barely any movement. Have tried to feed but I think the poor chap has expired.
 
Anyone watch 'The Island' with bear grylls ?

The episode where baby turtles hatched and the hungry men only ate the (naturally) dead ones came to mind reading the BBQ comments :)
 
Robert":3f4lfhwh said:
Anyone watch 'The Island' with bear grylls ?

The episode where baby turtles hatched and the hungry men only ate the (naturally) dead ones came to mind reading the BBQ comments :)
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Yes, I watched both series (men and women). Not sure if the programme makers deliberately chose some of the participants. Interesting that it was the older members who could hack it. The younger ones of both genders went 'Boo hoo hoo - I want go home'. They also needed to read Lord of the Flies. Both camps were desperately short of food and yet they both had an utter waste of space who contributed nothing and so were fair game to be eaten IMO - Kyle and Jamie.

Oh yes...the women's camp were so utterly utterly disorganised.
 
you do all know I'm joking don't you...sometimes the written word can convey the wrong message...Truth is Andy, the right thing to have done was actually leave it where you found it. Unless you could see for miles in all directions, its possible the parent was hidden nearby and would have come to its aid. The generally accepted advice by the RSPCA in most of these situation is to remove any imminent danger but leave the juvenile in situ.

I've done it myself when I was a nipper. Very rarely do they survive, the shock alone is too great for them let alone if they're injured.
 
Rob":30eqyugi said:
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I've done it myself when I was a nipper. Very rarely do they survive, the shock alone is too great for them let alone if they're injured.
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You did that to your children ? :o
 
Don't tempt me Roger....if you only knew what I've been through since our youngest was born...only this week...A&E again Tuesday night until 2:30am...then RNOH Stanmore on Wednesday...admitted....another operation on Thursday (general anaesthetic)....home late Friday...all unplanned.

My poor wife back home fending for herself with our other spawn of satan...er I mean child.....she herself only 2 weeks post op from the mastectomy. I'm bloody knackered and they're not even at secondary school yet!!!!
 
Rob":2y10p6mu said:
you do all know I'm joking don't you...
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Of course we do, just trying to call you bluff :D. We found the blighter on the pavement in the middle of the village, front doors onto the street. Not even a window box for shelter let alone a garden. Had I found it in the lanes around here I would have left well alone. I can only imagine a cat had found it and lost interest on the way home.

Kids do get easier as they grow up......I am told :D.

Hope they all recover and get well soon.
 
Ah righto...for some reason when I see Normandy in your avatar I always have this impression of a beautiful French country rural scene. Didn't for one moment think you'd found it right in town :-) Poor little blighter. When we were kids the hedgehogs used to shag under my bedroom window...noisy little things they are too. I cant even remember the last time I saw one in the UK. It was years ago...a real shame their decline is.
 
Rob":2kyqlrup said:
When we were kids the hedgehogs used to shag under my bedroom window...noisy little things they are too.
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To be fair, if you were shagging someone through that many prickles I suspect you would be quite noisy too! :shock:

Steve
 
We get them quite frequently here - caught one in our humane rat cage the other day - must like peanut butter?

Rod
 
well that's nice to hear...specially as you're in Winchester....I'm only up the M3 from you. It has to be 20 years since I saw one.
 
Rob":2n5hmm5n said:
Ah righto...for some reason when I see Normandy in your avatar I always have this impression of a beautiful French country rural scene. Didn't for one moment think you'd found it right in town :-) Poor little blighter. When we were kids the hedgehogs used to shag under my bedroom window...noisy little things they are too. I cant even remember the last time I saw one in the UK. It was years ago...a real shame their decline is.
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Town might be pushing it a bit. Population less than 2000. We live 1km from from the village, rural lanes all the way :D

As for the hedgehogs we've seen two in the garden since we moved here. Never saw one in the UK.

this one at night on the drive in 2010


and this one in broad daylight ambled across the grass in 2012


One day I'll find a decent website to help me identify all the other mammals we have in the garden based on their poo.
So far we have seen, either alive or dead:-
Hedgehog
Shrew
Mouse
Rabbit
Mole
Vole
 
I don't know if it's apocryphal or not but the reason why you see less squashed hedgehogs on the road is that evolution has been at play. Rather than curl up into a very squashable ball in the presence of danger, a genetic variation basically scarpered instead. They're the ones that are left !
 
Speaking as a geneticist, that is a story rather than fact. Have you seen the speed a hedgehog moves at? It would have to be some mutation to enable it to move fast enough to get out of the way of a motor vehicle :D

Steve
 
Don't know about their scat [emoji3] but we get Wood Mice, Shrews, Hedgehogs, Rats, Squirrels, Foxes, Slow Worms, Bats and other peoples cats!!

Rod
 
I'd forgotten that bats were mammals we get plenty of those too roosting behind the shutters in the summer.
 
I've had hodgehegs under the workshop before now...must be nice and cool under there. Coupla years ago I also found one upside down in the pond, which was a big shame. Haven't seen any lately though - Rob
 
Woodbloke":1tk2zchi said:
.... Coupla years ago I also found one upside down in the pond, which was a big shame. ...
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That was a bit spineless !
 
Used to see them quite regularly when I lived in suburban Manchester, now we live in the countryside haven't seen one in 8 years! Saying that, there are a lot of badgers round 'ere, and Gypsies… :eusa-think:

Cheers
Mark
 
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