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Hogarth's / Spikey's Hedgehog Rescue - Our rescue unit's facilities....

At our own Rescue unit we have both indoor and outdoor facilities, that enable our rescue and care work to be possible. Over the years, these have been added to, repaired and modified, and are still being expanded, as and when funding is available. Many of the items of equipment shown on this page are very expensive - lots of money and hard work have really gone into building up our unit, during the last 10 years!

OUR INDOOR FACILITIES...

We have our hospital cages and carriers - these are used for housing sick and injured hedgehogs and other small wild animals, also for transporting them to the Veterinary surgery and for taking "fit again" animals to suitable rehabilitation sites. They are made of plastic, each with a plastic-coated metal front opening and are collapsible - making them easy to clean. While each patients' hospital cage is being cleaned, each hedgehog is housed in his/her allocated plastic pen before being put back, and we always keep each patient in the SAME hospital cage or carrier, while he/she stays with us at the unit. Individuals and family-groups are all kept separately from each other. This is all to prevent cross-infection happening within the unit.

All new-arrivals at the unit are kept isolated in a different room, for at least 48 hours.

Orphaned or abandoned baby hoglets and other baby animals have to be kept at a constant incubated warmth. As these require even more TLC and attention, including hand-rearing every few hours day and night, the babies are kept incubated, in another room. Each baby or litter of babies are kept separately.

A bit of our indoor facilities - some of the hospital cages /carriers, complete with prickly patients! This part was added in 1996.

Brim the hedgehog in his hospital cage.

OUR OUTDOOR FACILITIES...

This part of the unit is formed from converted outbuildings - which include sheds, aviaries and enclosures. The first aviary was a converted bird aviary, built back in 1992, and it just went on from there. Since then, two further aviaries + enclosures were built, plus emergency cages, hedgehog rehabilitation pens, and in addition we now have an isolation shed.

All in all, it's quite a nice little set up - still being worked on, so please bear with us!

A bit of our outdoor facilities - hedgehog isolation shed and a new enclosure being built, suitable for recovering wild bird/ baby squirrel.

Hogarth's / Spikey's Hedgehog Rescue