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| Spring '08 - Hedgehog Gallery 1 By Spikey's / Hogarth's Hedgehog Rescue |
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| Photo Album & Newsletter - Welcome to the Spring 2008 Edition! Here on this page we are showing the very latest of our own pictures, in ascending order, taken during the last few weeks and indeed months, each with a little bit of text explaining each hedgehog's story. We are also showing the baby hoglet complete selection that was done online as 1 page last year, in June, coinciding while BBC Springwatch was being shown. That page was intended as part of a newsletter for Spring 2007, but was not actually published. Once again, we hope in the very near future to link each one to a more detailed description of their rescue, care and eventual rehabilitation back into the wild! In the meantime, please enjoy our offering of pictures this time around.... [If viewing online, the pictures may take several minutes to fully download if using a modem. Please be patient.] |
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| Division of Hogarth's Wildlife Rescue - originally Founded in 1993. |
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| Helping hundreds of wild animals every year - giving them a second chance! ***15th Anniversary Year!*** |
| If you see a baby or litter of babies exposed and out in daylight, then they need urgent help. Never ignore a hedgehog that is out in the day - something will be wrong! |
| From the Archives....Spring, '07 Impy '07 (also called "Super-Impy"), from Nottingham - early-June, 2007 |
| Hedgehog Rescue Spring '08 - Latest news and thoughts.... At the time of writing, almost all of the overwintered hedgehogs in our care (spread among our Volunteers), have been successfully released back into the wild, while we have started to get an increasing amount of calls for help about sick or injured ones, which came out from the hibernation period in a very bad way. Also anytime now or very soon, will be the first call this year to rescue tiny baby hoglets, newborn or just days old - either a lone orphan or whole family of them. Again, will mention Springwatch as it is when this is broadcast at the climax of the Spring season we have always received the first baby in need of help - every year without fail since the programme was first shown in 2003!! Last year was our most successful year so far, and, at the moment I don't think that it can be beaten! We had a 100% success with hand-rearing babies 0 - 6 wks. from the end of May, right until the Autumn. This included whole families, as did in '06, being successfully hand-reared and weaned - right through to their eventual rehabilitation back into the wild. It also included reviving babies/juveniles that were very poorly; one tiny hoglet was near to death but was still pulled through and survived against the odds. We gave it everything we had got to achieve the level that we reached. Can it be done again this year?.... |