30/10/2026
🎃🦔 Annual Halloween Hedgehog Reminder!!
We searched our archive for a hoggle snap, there are hundreds, from summer nights watching and listening to them eat, drink, chuff and pur. Alongside the not so happy images of strimmer injuries, fly strike, deliberate spraying, flea infestations and images of them on our delivery to our rescue as well as the exciting release images we always send back to our rescue to show them heading out to explore.
Recently we were told by someone who has visited our local amazing rescue and rehab, we have saved in excess of 20 hedgehogs over the last 6 years, since our first ever release on Halloween of 2020. This is either from our own garden, local posts or those who know us as being a little hedgehog obsessed and reaching out to us for help. The best ones have to be the Wild Bloomers school "Danielle the children are fine, but" we know what comes after the but 💕.
The important part - PUMPKINS CAN CAUSE DIARRHEA in our prickly friends, at a time when it is vital for them to gain that all important weight for hibernation. Please be mindful of where you put your pumpkins, and DO NOT discard them in your local parks or forests like the yearly viral post. This is dangerous for wildlife.
What can you do? As long as no chemicals, bleaches or rot and mould are present - compost them or find a local rescue that can use them for animal feed!
The snap of choice this year, a cheeky hedgehog from 2021, that came here for release, and had chewed its way out of its original box and had to be checked on in intervals as they had been collected in the morning, for evening release.