Hedgehog help / cage request!

[Pappa Lurve]

Morning all!

So I rescued a hedgehog but the vet is sodding useless and does not seem to know much about them. I have been on the phone to a local rescue hedgehog centre and at the very least she needs to be kept inside for several days, possibly the whole winter. More than happy to look after the little beastie and feed her up and have been told what to do but I don't suppose anyone has a suitably large cage I could borrow for a couple of weeks?!

I am in north London.

Happy to then release her into my garden which is just bordered by other gardens so is pretty safe.

Silly I know, but she is kinda cute and I want to make sure that she is ok. She seems worrying happy around humans and she is being treated for lung worm.

Any advice or assistance much appreciated!

Thanks

[Mubby]

sorry im nowhere near,but wanted to say try freecycle or even a local small animal rescue may lend you one?

[Tango13]

Speak with St Tiggywinkles up in Aylsbury they'll give you all the advice you need. They took in the hedgehog that I found in my garage a while back.

[Nightmare]

hey dude....did this last year - see the thread here: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

home: i used big cardboard boxes joined together with cardboard tubes made of other boxes. put em on their sides all sealed up and chopped the tops out with a knife (leaving a lip like colditz cos the little bugger will climb out otherwise. think you can kinda see in some of the photos on the link but will try and find a better one if you want. I would put newspaper in bottom and then wood shavings on top in quite a thick compacted layer. cos it will poo....a lot. and we a lot. Actually we had mdf boards underneath the whole thing on top of carpet too.

we put a shoebox with half the end cut out as a home and put lots of that cloth strip hamster bedding in and it dragged it inside to make a nest which was amusing.

Kept it all in an upstairs room which stays warm all day to ake sure she didnt hibernate (v v v important obviously)

feeding. live mealworms for definite. Ours would only eat Caesar and we tried pretty much every dog food. and some cat foods. fussy bugger. ''Hedgehog food' waste of time. We found late on that she also really liked peanuts, which would a have made life easier but maybe wouldn't be good when v small.

you need to give a good amount of clean water every day, and i reckon ours started on about half a small tin of dog food and a handful of mealworms every day. try and fee enough so there's a little bit left in the morning.

ours was really ghey and never got anything other than pretty nervous - but was never bitey or made too many angry hedgeheog noises. Also decided the room her fort was in was hers and grumbled at me when i was in the room which was funny.

good luck and please ask anything - its so cool letting them go next year!

[Pappa Lurve]

Hey Mr Mare! Long time no speak! Thanks for the advice, makes sense. She seems to be doing fine but trying t decide if I should just take her to a rescue place as they know what they are doing. She is so cute but I want to do the right thing for her.

Mare - can you PM me your details please.

Cheers