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Category: Hedgehog News

This category is for general Hedgehog related news.


Our poor hedgehogs seem to have been given the unfortunate names spikey 1 and spikey 2, although spikey 1 is being nicknamed ‘gutsy’ on account of how much it eats!


We have a male and female hog moved into our pen and are very amused by the friendliness of one of them, not at all shy, will approach a person, has explored the whole pen and eats a full pouch Read more…


Still no name as yet, under negotiation with the girls, may need UN referral 🙂  


The female Sutton Hog has attitude! Ladies, I am not characterising, just stating facts.  I think she took offence at my prison post (do hogs do social media?), as she spent 2 hours probing the enclosure perimeter, making various attempts Read more…


    Temporary prison, oops I mean rehabilitation centre or just plain hog enclosure (take your pick) built ready for inmate(s) 🙂


Just a reminder that we have a new batch of hedgehogs arriving this Saturday (15th September) at 12:00, the hedgehogs can be collected from Glatton village hall. For those of you due to collect hedgehogs please bring with you a Read more…


Hogs are now eating 2 large bowls of Tesco Kitten food a night!  The two baby hogs regularly share the feeding box. The adult hog is ‘Rosie’ – mother of one of the babies.


This is the first time I have seen Rosie with  babies.  Rosie is identified by the light strip on her right rump and was one of my original pair, Rex being her partner.  I am not sure if both babies Read more…


There was an adult hog in the feeding box when the baby hog came along. The baby spent some time in the garden feeding but showed no interest in the kitten milk. I think I now have 3 adult hogs Read more…