Northwich Hedgehog Rescue

28/10/2026

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• Water / Food Bowls
• Pet Scales
• Cozy Fleece Blankets
• Hedgehog Highway Sign

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09/09/2026

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I quickly bought two and then placed an order for another two and I had a lovely email from them thanking me for my second order and I said if they ever did a hedgehog t-shirt with "surviving out of spite" it would be in my trolley in a flash.

Well, they came up with the artwork, added it to their catalogue and have very kindly sent me one FOC which made my day.

They are beautifully made, extremely good quality material and a very quick turnaround - cannot recommend them enough as I don't often post links but they deserve a cheeky share.

These were my picks but there are so many choices - I am building up to a T-shirt a day !!

07/09/2026

Firstly - an apology for the silence - it has been an exceptionally hard time at the rescue.

As per other rescues up and down the country it has been one of the worst years I have ever had with Hoglet losses.

You begin to doubt yourself and mentally run things through your head as to why it has been so bad.

Adults and older hoglets have progressed as per the usual route but the smaller hoglets have just not progressed.

I do wonder if the mum's have not had the nutrients to fully develop the hoglets and they have been born weaker - one rescue has posted that on postmortems they have found that internal organs have not developed properly and I was heading down that belief myself.

Hoglets have been hand reared and you come to wean them and they just didn't take to solid food - they hit a certain point and that was where they stopped - they progressed no further and sometimes it could be a pair out of a litter, a single one and in some cases the majority of the litter - soul destroying and you question your methods, your sanity and your commitment to carrying on.

Doesn't help that I slipped a disc and still struggling with that as it's a bu**er when you can't put your socks on!!

Have had some new arrivals :-

1 Juvenile Hoglet from Rudheath and 1 more to catch.

2. Juvenile Hoglet from Antrobus

3. Adult Female that was clipped by a car - size saved her as she is huge but she has had pain relief and anti-inflammatory meds as there was a bruised area on her side. Nothing wrong with her appetite but i am wondering if she is pregnant.

Two small hoglets are evading capture in Rudheath as well so hoping they get caught soon.

Now things have calmed down I am hoping to resume normal service x

10/08/2026

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07/08/2026

A little light entertainment for tonight!

07/08/2026

( Jaws theme tune playing in the background)

Just when you thought it was safe to enter the hoglet nursery...............

The feeding bottles come out again!!

( Jaws theme still playing in the background)

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We have a fourth!!!

03/08/2026

I am so sorry for the lack of updates - I don't think I have ever had a year like this before - the sheer number of hedgehogs coming through the doors is the most I have ever seen.

We have had a mum with 3 babies, a mum with 5 babies and a mum with 4 babies came in last night.

A litter of five hoglets was dropped off with my mum after they had been kept for three weeks by the finder who acted in good faith but we have three smaller ones separated out as the two other siblings were 300 grams and these are 150 grams +

Whilst a hedgehog might look ok on the outside it is what is going on in the inside with internal parasites and the three smaller ones all have fluke and roundworm and it makes it harder for us to treat them.

No judgement or criticism as that doesn't help either - I prefer to explain my reasons in the hope that next time it doesn't happen.

Hoglets are complex little things and can soon crash - hoglets are coming into rescues up and down the country - eyes open and teeth but weighing between 50-75 grams and we know by the stage of development they should weigh more.

A good example is mum with five babies - they weigh more than some of the older hoglets I have here.

They can be out eating the night before and you start your rounds in a morning and you find them passed away.

They get to a certain point and then stall and don't progress any further. A failure to thrive, lack of milk from the mum, weak hoglets that mum might have rejected. Some litters of hoglets have been found over a week this year and it is the ones that were found last that struggle more.

Hoglets that have left the nest as mum hasn't returned venture out to find help and even a 100 gram hoglet has lungworm and is on treatment.

A few have fluke and/or roundworm - not all of them but the ones that do were struggling before and things quickly escalate.

If you have dropped off hoglets and wanting updates I will get round to it ASAP x

22/07/2026

New arrivals yesterday - mum and babies were all out in the day and mum has a "leg" issue which needs to be dealt with.

All set up safe and sound in one of the three new cages we were able to purchase via donations received to buy them.

Have taken a hoglet in from Middlewich whose sibling came in at the weekend and one more is coming over from Rudheath which has been found in roughly the same place as another one that came in several days ago x

22/07/2026

One of our supporters recently applied for a Foresters Care Grant of £200 and was successful. She was able to use the money to buy essential items we need to care for the hedgehogs. If any of our supporters have savings with Foresters please consider applying for a Care Grant on our behalf. Catherine says the process was very easy and the application was accepted very quickly’

14/07/2026

It has been a busy day!

Foster carers came to collect some of the hoglets that are ready to take the next step towards their release.

4 have gone to Tarporley with Liz
9 have gone to Winsford with Zena and her mum.

Spaces are not staying empty for long - the newborns came in, I have just had a hoglet in from Winsford and Gill collected these three from Alsager - a fourth is still at large and evading capture!!