Hi Tetley, thanks for the hug, I will keep you up dated on HH progress. I'm not long back from work, HH was out of his box but doesn't look like HH has eaten jet. Probably the shock of the injection. I'm sure HH will eat when he/she is hungry.
Clarice673, like you I still don't know the sex. Vet couldn't check, HH was too curled up .I've decided to call HH Henrietta.
Here's Henrietta's new residence under the table in the conservatory. She was exploring a little last night. The little b****r was reaching up and trying to climb over. She almost touches the top of it when she stretches. So I bought some mash so she can't climb out when she gets bigger.She can run around all night in there when we've gone to bed without setting alarm off ,cause I've put a little hook and eye on the door.
looks great little place and sure Henrietta will have a ball in there. Wee Hamish is also running about mad during the day and at night but they are funny wee things to watch .
Hello everyone. Hope your wee Henrietta is still going strong Paula. Sadly we lost wee Hamish during the night. He was fine at bedtime but this morning he was dead in his box. For whatever reason (maybe things going on inside the little thing, I don't know). Hes now buried in the garden....
Hi clarice673, so sorry to hear you lost little Hamish. God bless him. All we can do is our best to give them a better chance of survival. You gave him that chance but the little fellow just wasn't strong enough. He could have died outside in the cold, but you gave him a warm box. A bug hug from me.
When I took little Henrietta to the vets, the vet did say to me ,if she was full of lungworm and it was advanced, the injection would kill it but would probably kill Henrietta due to the build up of toxins from the lungworm. I took that chance because she wasn't eating very much and was sick. She doesn't come out during the day so I'll have to keep a close eye on her. I don't like to disturb her but I do check if she's still breathing.
Fingers crossed your wee one stays ok...As you said Paula, we can only try and I did....just wasn't to be...
miss the wee guy/girl already but as you said, yours is asleep most of the day and ours was up and about, most of the day & night since we brought him/her in so maybe there was something already going on?! Will never know......
Truly very, very sorry to hear about the loss of little Hamish but you did all you can - far more than anyone else would and that effort/care is honestly invaluable I really wish we had more people like yourself, Tetley & Paula. You're right, I'm almost certain he already had problems beyond your control before you found him - so please don't blame yourself. Keep an eye out for anymore and still put food down for them in a hedgehog feeding station, failing that maybe you could be surrogate mother to another if you contact your local rescue? They are in desperate need of wonderful people like you.
Hi Mark and thanks very much for the nice comment. We have made and have outside a hedgehog box but no luck so far, fingers crossed it will get used over the winter as we have a largish wooded garden and plenty access holes in fencing etc for them to come and go. We also have a large mound that we made in he summer, fully covered and made up of leaves/branches etc which is down at the unused section of the garden so theres plenty spaces for them to hide/sleep..
Sorry they are upside down....house is now in a corner of the garden and the little tunnel part has been totally covered with leaves/branches apart from the opening.
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Hi Tetley, thanks for the hug, I will keep you up dated on HH progress. I'm not long back from work, HH was out of his box but doesn't look like HH has eaten jet. Probably the shock of the injection. I'm sure HH will eat when he/she is hungry.
Clarice673, like you I still don't know the sex. Vet couldn't check, HH was too curled up .I've decided to call HH Henrietta.
Well let's hope wee "Henrietta" picks up after a couple of days on the meds....fingers crossed for you...
Hi all those HH lovers,
Here's Henrietta's new residence under the table in the conservatory. She was exploring a little last night. The little b****r was reaching up and trying to climb over. She almost touches the top of it when she stretches. So I bought some mash so she can't climb out when she gets bigger.She can run around all night in there when we've gone to bed without setting alarm off ,cause I've put a little hook and eye on the door.
Well done Paula
looks great little place
and sure Henrietta will have a ball in there. Wee Hamish is also running about mad during the day and at night but they are funny wee things to watch 
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Hello everyone. Hope your wee Henrietta is still going strong Paula. Sadly we lost wee Hamish during the night.
He was fine at bedtime but this morning he was dead in his box. For whatever reason (maybe things going on inside the little thing, I don't know). Hes now buried in the garden....
Hi clarice673, so sorry to hear you lost little Hamish.
God bless him. All we can do is our best to give them a better chance of survival. You gave him that chance but the little fellow just wasn't strong enough. He could have died outside in the cold, but you gave him a warm box. A bug hug from me.
When I took little Henrietta to the vets, the vet did say to me ,if she was full of lungworm and it was advanced, the injection would kill it but would probably kill Henrietta due to the build up of toxins from the lungworm. I took that chance because she wasn't eating very much and was sick. She doesn't come out during the day so I'll have to keep a close eye on her. I don't like to disturb her but I do check if she's still breathing.
Fingers crossed your wee one stays ok...As you said Paula, we can only try and I did....just wasn't to be..
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miss the wee guy/girl already but as you said, yours is asleep most of the day and ours was up and about, most of the day & night since we brought him/her in so maybe there was something already going on?! Will never know.....
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Good luck and fingers/toes crossed for you....
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was i Clarice that lost wee Hamish & not Paula and yes I tried my best.
thanks
Clarice
Hi Clarice,
Truly very, very sorry to hear about the loss of little Hamish but you did all you can - far more than anyone else would and that effort/care is honestly invaluable
I really wish we had more people like yourself, Tetley & Paula. You're right, I'm almost certain he already had problems beyond your control before you found him - so please don't blame yourself. Keep an eye out for anymore and still put food down for them in a hedgehog feeding station, failing that maybe you could be surrogate mother to another if you contact your local rescue? They are in desperate need of wonderful people like you. 
Hi Mark and thanks very much for the nice comment. We have made and have outside a hedgehog box but no luck so far, fingers crossed it will get used over the winter as we have a largish wooded garden and plenty access holes in fencing etc for them to come and go. We also have a large mound that we made in he summer, fully covered and made up of leaves/branches etc which is down at the unused section of the garden so theres plenty spaces for them to hide/sleep..