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Hogarth's / Spikey's Hedgehog Rescue - Latest News...

The following are extracts from our most recent editions of the Newsletter....

Spikey’s Hedgehog Rescue - Updates continued...

Baby Holly - released back into the “wild”...

A beautiful orphaned baby hoglet from Earl Shilton, who was brought to us at the beginning of November last year, and she weighed-in at only 150 grams. (approx. only 4 weeks old).
At first, she was so cold and had been found out in the day, in the wet and cold - she seemed almost lifeless, rolled up and wouldn’t respond. She was warmed up on a hot water bottle straight away, and this, along with a syringe full of re-hydration fluid, revived her. She still had to be hand-fed using a syringe on goats milk, but as well as the hand-feeds, she was ready to lap the special weaning “glop”. This she began, when offered, then started taking tiny chunks of the more solid food.

She had to be kept warm all the time (as with all babies so young), and for a number of weeks (through Christmas and into the new year) she had a co-ordination problem that she couldn’t walk in a straight line, and often suddenly swung around in a circle, knocking her food all over the place! (The problem maybe either deafness or blindness, possibly). This meant hand-feeds much longer than usual and she had to be kept in a separate incubator situation to her feeding pen, otherwise would have been too messy.
Her growth-rate was slow, by mid-January only 280 g. and by mid-March only 420 g. The good news is that she’s now been released back into the wild, but in a secret enclosed location, with supplement food.

Baby Holly - very poorly and when better.

Bournemouth Baby hoglet, amazingly early...

Thurs. 20/ MAR. - Ringwood, nr. Bournemouth, Hampshire. (01425 area.)
Call at 10:40 am. Got our telephone numbers from our main web site.....
Gent, found a baby hedgehog out in daylight - the hoglet laying in the sunshine. This baby only about 4 weeks old. He already had followed our advice that is on our site - he’d picked up the hoglet, carefully put in a box (hot water bottle, well-wrapped in a towel in bottom, etc.). The baby had got at least 12 ticks (behind ears, mostly). Breathing sometimes quite fast; I informed him that this also indication of illness - plus, that too many ticks dangerous (dehydration), and that the hoglet was desperately trying to get warm (laid in sunshine - prob. already suffering hypothermia).
Contacted a local lady who does hedgehog rescue, in that area. So far, the baby is now okay, but we’ll have to wait and see. He/she would have been born in February, so either amazingly early or VERY late!!

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School Project about Hedgehogs - with a difference...

This letter made us smile, when we received it, (on Tues. 25/ March):

22nd March 03

Dear Spikey,
My name is Brendan Ilkiw and I am 7.
My class is doing a project on hedgehogs.
I thought it would be a good idea for me and my class to adopt one.

My school is Mount Pleasant Primary in Brierley Hill, West Midlands.

Please send me an adoption list and form.
Thank you.
Brendan Ilkiw.

What a lovely idea, Brendan! Adoption list and form on their way to you!

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We are extremely grateful to all the following Members...

New Members
14/ DEC. - £5-00, from Kaz Grouse, of Earl Shilton, Leicestershire. LE9 area.

14/ DEC. - £5-50, from Janet Neal, of Hollycroft Est., Hinckley, Leicestershire. LE10 area.

29/ DEC. - £50-00, from Katie Chappell & her partner, of Stechford, Birmingham, W. Mids. B33 area.

27/ FEB./’03 - £15-00, from Sylvia Eden, of Lavenham, Suffolk. CO10 area.

New Members - Adopt-A-Hedgehog
11/ JAN./’03 - £6-00, from Ursula Iliffe, of Leicester. LE5 area. (Sponsored Holly.)

27/ JAN. - £5-00, from Mrs D. M. Goucher, of Flockton, Wakefield, W. Yorkshire. WF4 area.
(Sponsored Hawthorn.)

Donations from Members
##/ JAN. - £20-00, from Jean B. Sleath, of Hinckley, Leicestershire. LE10 area. Jean has been a Member for 9 years, now!!

12/ JAN. - £10-00, from Christine Wullis, of Ratcliffe Culey, nr. Atherstone, Warwickshire. CV9 area.

22/JAN. - £10-00, from Mrs Vivien Dalling, of Enfield, Middlesex. EN2 area.

6/ FEB. - £10-00, from L. Nugent, of Burbage, Leicestershire. LE10 area.

12/ MAR. - £25-00, from Norman England, of Aston, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. S26 area. Norman has been a Member for 8 years, now!!

Other cash Donations we received on 14.Dec. - Christmas Without Cruelty Fayre, Leicester
£5-00, £1-00, £1-00, 86p, 50p.

Donation of food & other goodies
17/ DEC./’02 - 3:30 pm. A lady from Bute Close, Hollycroft Est., Hinckley, very kindly came to our door, with a bag of goodies for us: Large toy cuddly fox; 9 Felix pouch complete meals (3 chicken, 2 rabbit, 3 beef, 1 duck & lamb); plus a lot of toweling material, large sheets, to use as bedding for the hedgehogs. Hugely appreciated!

Food Collection, from Champion Pet Supplies, in Nuneaton
3/ FEB. - Another lot of Spike’s Dinner, which generous customers had very kindly bought and donated to us - 14 cans plus 1 large box dry food. As always, thanks so very much to Mary and her staff, for doing the Collection for us (ongoing, since Sept.2001) - it’s hugely appreciated!

A warm welcome to all our new Members! (Anyone who donated or joined after March '03 will be listed and thanked in the Next issue.)

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