Taking Home a Hedgehog

To release your hedgehog or replacement hedgehog from Hedgehog Welfare there is not a lot involved more than you are hopefully already doing.  

Collecting the hedgehog from either Foston or Elston or Bottesford. Usually in the late afternoon or evening so that you can release the hedgehog as soon as you get home.

It will come in a in a cardboard box which is covered in a black bin liner to ensure that the hedgehog has somewhere dry to sleep on it’s first night at least, if it wants too. You will also be given a small pack up of the dried food the hedgehog has been eating. We ask you to place the box when you get home under a hedge or shrub, so if it gets windy the box with the hedgehog does not get blown about, and if it is hot and sunny they will not get too hot. Then we ask you to remove the escape hole cover after 5-10 minutes (this is only on, so the hedgehog does not escape in your car on the way home), please do not do it straight away as the hedgehog will need to settle down after been shaken around in the box.

Then if you can sprinkle tablespoon of biscuits (from the small pack up we provide each hedgehog, this is biscuits that the hedgehog has been eating) in an area from just outside the box to about 1 metre away randomly.

Place a approximately 20cm plant pot saucer with water in it, within the area you have sprinkled the biscuits.

Walk away and leave the hedgehog to be a wild hedgehog.

But please continue to feed with the hedgehog mix that we have given you and then with any chicken based kitten biscuits, scattered on your grass or patio and several bowls of water.

Please leave the box down for at least two months, even if the hedgehog has left it. Hedgehog naturally have several nest sites so he/she may come back to it or another hedgehog may use it.