Hedgehog – Donich Website https://www.donich.co.uk Argyll wildlife and nature as seen on the banks of the Donich Water Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:23:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 Update on the baby Hedgehogs https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2017/01/18/update-on-the-baby-hedgehogs/ https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2017/01/18/update-on-the-baby-hedgehogs/#respond Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:23:59 +0000 http://www.donich.co.uk/?p=6746 Some time before Christmas I had the great fun of visiting some orphaned baby hedgehogs who had been taken in by a friend of my Mum’s who is a White Witch. Well today I got an update on them…

Last year they were small and looking rather sad as they had had a series of skin diseases which had caused them to lose most of their fur and prickles. Today’s video shows them getting a bath to get rid of the last of the nasties – the prickles are all back and they are furry on their faces and tums where before they were nearly naked. They are also about three times the size they were, and look to be quite a handful.

They will be looked after until the spring when they will be released into the wild.

I sort of wish we had some hedgehogs but they are not compatible with badgers which apparently are the only creatures which will eat them.

This is a link to the (very sweet) video – Click here

]]> https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2017/01/18/update-on-the-baby-hedgehogs/feed/ 0 Baby Hedgehogs https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2016/10/26/baby-hedgehogs/ https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2016/10/26/baby-hedgehogs/#respond Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:14:07 +0000 http://www.donich.co.uk/?p=6441 I’m down visiting my parents at the moment and had a lovely experience today. One of my mum’s friends has rescued five baby hedgehogs. She found them wandering in her garden in the daytime, disoriented and half-starved with no sign of their mother (who was probably killed on the road). They were immediately taken in and looked after – with the intention of returning them to the wild as soon as they are big enough to fend for themselves. As they are only around 200g and need to be 650g to survive a Scottish winter, this will not be for some time.
Anyway, she was kind enough to let me come round to see them today and I held one for the first time. They have had mites and were treated for it – so at the moment they are not furry underneath, and one of them has lost most of its prickles – but they will grow back. They are so sweet munching away at their mealworms (apparently they are addicts).

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I was also introduced to three nice cats (one of which is a huge Maine Coon) and was shown the house and garden – including the summerhouse which has been turned into a sort of nature shrine (the hedgehog lady is a practicing white witch).

I really enjoyed myself – I’d love to be able to foster creatures like the baby hedgehogs myself, but unfortunately I can’t see Tora and Schrodi getting on well with them.

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