Wolds Hedgehog Rescue

14/09/2025

Our newly sponsored cage has its first guest. Titch who is just 191g has joined us, he has masses of tiny black ticks we need to sort out and then will need building up for release.
He has already started on the second bit as you can see and hear.

13/09/2025

THANK YOU TO EMILY, LAYLA, ISLA, ALEX AND PHOEBE

5 girls, from Cherry Burton School, at the beginning of the school holidays joined in the Lifestyle project sponsored by Humberside Police. They are all animal lovers and decided their project needed to specialise on one species, they very cleverly chose the hedgehog.
Over Summer they completed numerous tasks, researching and making educational posters to put around the village, plus leaflets they delivered door to door.
They made hedgehog habitats from all natural materials and placed them around the Cherry Burton Nature Trail.
As well as all that they found time for fund raising with a cake bake and sponsored walk raising the amazing amount of £630 which they split between the two local rescues.
Here are the girls outside the Hutton Hoghouse with all the goodies they have donated to us.
Thank you again and we are looking forward to you coming and helping in the hoghouse.

12/09/2025

Can you help us with a release site for this hoglet and her Mama?
They came from a site being redeveloped on Grosvenor Place in Beverley, close to the Westwood. We need a garden, ideally within half a mile or so, of this location. You'd need to have visiting hedgehogs, providing water and support feeding and a hedgehog house.
Hedgehog mum's teach their babies to forage on their own territory, before leaving them to fend for themselves. Baby hoglet is just starting to venture out of the nest and it's much better for her to learn to forage for food from her mother.
If you are able to help, please drop us a message via our page, many thanks 🦔

02/09/2025

Busy day today with 4 admissions ranging from Lizzy at 246g who was cold and dehydrated. She was found out in the day, probably trying to warm up and brought to us by Lizzy and her mum
Dotty came in weighing 300g and having given us a sample we can now treat her for roundworms
Harriet isn’t much bigger at 345g and has roundworms and lungworms so has also started treatment.
Then there is Chris, also a female but at 1275g one of our biggest admissions. No sample yet but her problem is a nose injury.

31/08/2025

While driving over to Hessle Hedgehogs afternoon tea day I got a call about two little hoglets in a bad way. Our Hoglet Nanny is away for the day and as they needed care straight away the finders came to Hessle. They are now with Holderness Hedgehog Rescue who stepped in and took them to their rescue.
Many thanks HHH

29/08/2025

Having finished all his meds and topping the scales at 1041g Biscuit made the leap back to the wild tonight to the garden he was found in.
Running around like he had never left the cat biscuits disappeared very quickly so it would seem he was glad to be back.

29/08/2025

QUICK UPDATE, GEOFF PASSED HIS VET VISIT WITH FLYING COLOURS EVEN IF HE DISGRACED HIMSELF BY POOING ALL OVER THE VET TABLE AND THEN TRIED TO RUN AWAY

What a difference 24hrs makes. Geoff having eaten half a bowl of Scrumbles in jelly is now having a nap. He walked the length of the cage with little effort and we are delighted with his progress. Just hope the vet is as impressed tomorrow.
Sorry about the quality of the picture but a heat lamp and fly net doesn’t help.

28/08/2025

We were called to a building site in Beverley following a call from Harry who was clearing a site with a massive digger. I have no idea how he saw the hedgehog who was nesting in a hole in the very dry ground.
He protected the site with broken plant pots and a cover over then called us.
Hubby and I set up a nursery pen down the garden then set off to find what was there.
Amazingly the nest was literally just in a hole in the ground with a very large hedgehog covered in leaves and brush not to mention brick dust everywhere.
I lifted the nest with as much bedding as I could and there was one hoglet in the bottom which was soon picked up and put with mum. Double gloves and more leaves around the little thing ensured no human scent was transferred. Back at the rescue we gave mum a quick check for any injuries and found she was fine and nursing the hoglet. There were no more babies
Thank you so much Harry eagle eyes.

28/08/2025

Geoff came in to us with a missing toe on one back leg and a stump for the other. After a vet consultation it was decided to amputate the stump up to his shoulder so when he walks again there will be no friction to cause sores or infection.
A hedgehog uses its shorter front legs for digging and foraging for food and their longer back legs for grooming.
At Wolds we follow emerging research and this proves a 3 legged hedgehog is very viable in the wild.
At the moment though Geoff is snuggled on fleece under a heat lamp as under cage heat could affect his wound.
Thank you so much to Aldgate Vets in Driffield for your dedicated care for our beloved hedgehogs

18/08/2025

A massive thank you to Simon from S B Electrical for jumping to our rescue when we lost all the electrics in the hoghouse this evening.

16/08/2025

I.4 thousand shares and counting isn't bad publicity for us.
Thank you BBC

A Driffield hedgehog rescue is at breaking point, caring for more than 50 animals struggling in the heat - here's how you can help. Read more: https://bbc.in/4lqIpy5

07/08/2025

Little Simba enjoying his fresh morning biscuits whilst waiting for the staff to service his accomodation. The little chap was seen in Driffield wandering along the road on his own during the day. He was very cold and had several ticks which we removed. He is now being treated for two internal parasitic conditions. He seems to have responded well to his medication and we are hopeful that he will continue to improve.