I was talking to the lady who runs the rescue yesterday, and she was saying how long it was taking to get Hope to this stage, apparently it's quite unusual. But she is determined - and so is Hope !
Oh I’m so glad to have stumbled across this discussion! 🦔 I am a volunteer for a local hedgehog rescue and help with the care of hoggies in critical care. Hope looks so sweet 🥰
Welcome to the Hedgehog site @timmy77. Please tell us more about the fantastic work you do to help the hedgehog population - who need good people like you to support these little creatures.
Our little hog I have been told is being hand reared by one of the experienced specialist hog volunteers. He has been called BUN ??? Don't ask me why - still it makes a change from the usual Harry or Henry we have even called some in the past Hilda or Hazel - oh dear!
Bun ! Can't see a connection but as you say, makes a change from Harriet, Hermione etc. Our rescue has a mum called Rhubarb, with hoglets Crumble, Sponge, Roly, Poly, Pudding and Trifle ! 😁
Welcome to the Hedgehog site @timmy77. Please tell us more about the fantastic work you do to help the hedgehog population - who need good people like you to support these little creatures.
Our little hog I have been told is being hand reared by one of the experienced specialist hog volunteers. He has been called BUN ??? Don't ask me why - still it makes a change from the usual Harry or Henry we have even called some in the past Hilda or Hazel - oh dear!
Bun!? It isn’t perchance an Egyptian long-eared hoggy with bunny rabbit ears? 🤔 😂
I volunteer for a local rescue and help with the care of hoggies with critical needs. They are usually ones which have been brought in whilst roaming around in someone’s garden during the day, a disturbed nest, attacked by an animal or struck by a car. We sometimes take them in from bizarre situations such as someone wanting to keep one as a pet to live with her tortoise! 🤔 I generally help cleaning, weighing and food duties a few times a month. If I’m feeling brave enough, you’ll see me wearing a daft fat hedgehog costume handing out information sheets and collecting money for the rescue
As for names, we’ve annoyingly had Sonic 🙈 quite often Harriet, Henry, Spike, Herbert and many more of the usual hoggy type names. At the moment though, we have one called Dave 😂🤣😂
Well what a night! Usual time of 11pm hog arrived eating/drinking. While watching a second turned up (this appears to be the ginger one from a month or so ago) very wary of hoggie and when it came to eat was pushed away from the food, but after some snuffling around the boarders did get to eat. Then while these two were back and forth between flower beds and food a THIRD showed up!! New one to me , very timid saw the others and froze. Didn't move for 5 mins then gingerly walked to the dish sniffed the food but did not eat. What is noteworthy is hoggie is visibly smaller than the other two, but definitely dominant . Ginger all the time was twitching when near hoggie, flattening itself to the ground and curling its spines over its face, but was allowed at one point to eat at the same time. The third one never went near the others. Fascinating!
You're very lucky to see three at the same time @purplerallim ! I have three different visitors but only ever see two together at any one time. Sounds like the little one is new this year and will probably get braver With regard to @madpenguin 's post on the other thread, I've found in the past that they do this, visit as regular as clockwork and then just stop coming. I imagine all sorts of disasters , then the following year a hedgehog turns up. Keep the faith, you never know.....
This is a first ever sighting of three, we've been lucky to catch one. With the reaction of the bigger two I was wondering if hoggie is a young male ( the other two being female) which is sad because it will mean when mature he will wander off to make hoglets of his own.😕
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I am a volunteer for a local hedgehog rescue and help with the care of hoggies in critical care. Hope looks so sweet 🥰
Our rescue has a mum called Rhubarb, with hoglets Crumble, Sponge, Roly, Poly, Pudding and Trifle !
😁
I volunteer for a local rescue and help with the care of hoggies with critical needs. They are usually ones which have been brought in whilst roaming around in someone’s garden during the day, a disturbed nest, attacked by an animal or struck by a car. We sometimes take them in from bizarre situations such as someone wanting to keep one as a pet to live with her tortoise! 🤔
I generally help cleaning, weighing and food duties a few times a month. If I’m feeling brave enough, you’ll see me wearing a daft fat hedgehog costume handing out information sheets and collecting money for the rescue
As for names, we’ve annoyingly had Sonic 🙈 quite often Harriet, Henry, Spike, Herbert and many more of the usual hoggy type names. At the moment though, we have one called Dave 😂🤣😂
Usual time of 11pm hog arrived eating/drinking. While watching a second turned up (this appears to be the ginger one from a month or so ago) very wary of hoggie and when it came to eat was pushed away from the food, but after some snuffling around the boarders did get to eat. Then while these two were back and forth between flower beds and food a THIRD showed up!! New one to me , very timid saw the others and froze. Didn't move for 5 mins then gingerly walked to the dish sniffed the food but did not eat.
What is noteworthy is hoggie is visibly smaller than the other two, but definitely dominant . Ginger all the time was twitching when near hoggie, flattening itself to the ground and curling its spines over its face, but was allowed at one point to eat at the same time. The third one never went near the others. Fascinating!
Sounds like the little one is new this year and will probably get braver
With regard to @madpenguin 's post on the other thread, I've found in the past that they do this, visit as regular as clockwork and then just stop coming. I imagine all sorts of disasters , then the following year a hedgehog turns up. Keep the faith, you never know.....
And yesterday, one had a pretty late night....
My little hoggie came back three times to eat just while I watched.