Littlest Wildlife Hotel - North Devon

02/06/2026

This Friday everyone! We still have some spaces open on our team if anyone is interested in joining us?

29/05/2026

Unfortunately after an unsuccessful reunion I had to remove the babies from their Mum after 24 hours.

Even though she hadn’t injured any of the babies she had failed to feed them or keep them warm. As such the babies were starving and cold and one very swiftly succumbed to the combined effect of both minutes after I removed them from their Mum.

We are down to 3, very small babies. Since removing them they have fed well taking roughly 2mls between the trio every 2-4 hours.

Only one of the babies had any milk inside its tummy. Such a shame that it didn’t work out for them to remain with Mum.

Meanwhile the rescue was rather busy today, we admitted a number of new animals including a hedgehog giving all the classic symptoms of lungworm. Only it was found running out from under the car in the daylight. Upon checking I found she was a female who was heavy weighing 988g. She has signs of birth or imminent birth and so I took her back to the find site and released her.

We admitted another hedgehog who was covered with ticks AND had fleas who also was struggling to breathe. Sadly she is female which means that she could be pregnant, and if so possibly very close to giving birth. Since being in our care her breathing has calmed down and I haven’t seen any babies as yet.

We also admitted 4 baby voles, 1 baby tit, 1 baby jackdaw, 2 baby pigeons and finally a baby crow that I drove by whilst going out to another rescue, it was just sat in the middle of the road beside another squashed crow. When I got out of the car to see what was going on it tried its hardest to get away from me, but ended up on its back unable to right itself, which made for an easy capture.

Everyone has eaten or been fed since their arrival at the rescue and now it’s most animals bedtime.

Attached are some photos to enjoy!

28/05/2026

Second video of the hedgehog and hoglets that arrived today 28/5, this is 4 hours after arrival.

I will be checking on them again in about 10 minutes. Hopefully all 5 willl be happy and well fed.

28/05/2026

Today we admitted this young lady who unexpectedly began to give birth whilst in her finders home this morning.

She gave birth to 5 babies, one sadly was stillborn. It’s always a heart in your mouth kind of moment when a brand new Mum comes in with her babies. Depending on her levels of stress she could abandon the babies in the best case scenario or in the worst she may eat them.

She was put straight into a pod and the babies were put into the sleeping area so that Mummy could find them and begin to care for them. I sat beside the pod silently for an hour watching them try to settle in and ensure that the babies didn’t become a small snack.

The clip was when they arrived. If you listen to the clip you can hear the babies ‘peeping’ for their Mums attention and milk. So if you hear that noise when you are outside you can pretty much guarantee that there are some babies missing their Mummy close by so keep an ear and eye out to see if you can see any hedgehog returning to the babies. If not, you’re going to have to find them!

I checked them about 4 hours after they arrived, they look fairly satisfied and weren’t shouting for food so hopefully it has been a successful reunion.

27/05/2026

Latest rabbit release.

Aside from extracting the rabbit from the carrier I think it went rather well.

The goose noise is loud so volume down if geese honking upsets you.

27/05/2026

Yesterday we collected 2 polecats who were stuck in a drain at Affinity Devon. They had been guarded by the workers all day, there was a third with them but sadly it went further into the drain and couldn’t be caught. The workers have been left with instructions to contact us if they see it again.

The two girls are now named Coffee and Tea and have eaten and settled in well.

One of our hand reared and now rewilded told us very clearly that it was time to leave. So we listened and the next post will be a video of its release with added goose noise because god forbid they get ignored during a release!!

22/05/2026

After a year of trying to rehome the Pidgeon's we rescued last year, this amazing charity were the only people that helped us, after numerous calls to many Pidgeon rescue organisations that were no help at all.

Thank you so much for taking on the birds and we can now work and support each other with wildlife rescues, which is how it should be!!!

https://www.facebook.com/littlestwildlifehotel

20/05/2026

Does anyone have a small livestock trailer that we could borrow ASAP to collect 16 geese in?

18/05/2026

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