The Hedge-Blog

Meet Sheppy, a hog with a glamorous lifestyle living at Shepperton Film Studios. He was very well looked after by the crew there but sadly is poorly with a broken ankle and lungworm. The hoglet is safe and warm for tonight and we’ll reassess tomorrow.

If anyone has any unwanted Christmas presents we would happily rehome them for you in our up and coming tombolas. It won’t be long now before the serious work of fundraising begins again. If you can donate any please contact us x

Blywyddyn Newydd Dda aka Happy New Year to all our hoggyliciously hogified friends and supporters of The Happy Hedgehog Rescue. The midnight hour of the looming New Year won’t be long but I fear I shall fast asleep by then. This is a BIG Thank You to all who have supported us this year. We […]

A Very special Thank You goes to Madeline for her wonderful present today for the hedgehogs. Madleine decided instead of a present for herself she would donate some goodies to the rescue, so today she brought along a huge box of goodies from banana chips, fleeces, bowls, cat food etc etc What an amazing young […]

These are some of our fab weekend volunteers who give up their time to help our prickly friends!

The Happy Hedgehog Rescue in Yateley are celebrating their 5th anniversary. The rescue began in what seems like decades ago says Jayne the founder. We had moved to Yateley after much persuasion from my husband after an attack that had much immobilised me mentally with PTSD. I was a bit of a mess from a […]

This year saw the return of the Farnborough International Airshow with another amazing display of aircraft, including the well known Red Arrow display team. Little did the airborne acrobatic flyers realise that they were unknowingly helping to rescue ailing animals on the ground. A local hedgehog rescue – The Happy Hedgehog Rescue in Yateley has […]

Sunday night i shall be singing at St Mary’s church Eversley – come along and see me sing for my supper !!!!  

May is a busy fundraising month for The Happy Hedgehog Rescue and this year we are going all out with 4 Fayres in one month. Our main fundraiser is the Tombola and we are still seeking items. Please come and support us at the following venues and say hello. If anyone has unwanted gifts, chocolates, bootles […]

We are urgently in need of tombola items for the up and coming Fayres. If anyone has any unwanted gifts or bottles that we can use that would be gratefully received. The summer Fayres are our main fundraisers which help to to feed the many hogs in our care throughout the year. If you can […]

These are very special pics of mum and babies feeding taken just before a neccessary clean. NEVER disturb a nest as mum can abandon their young or worse kill them!!  

  I’m really happy to say I have been a winner in the Cool to Be Kind competition and I would like to thank the lovely person who nominated me. I’m cool at this ripe old age – can’t be bad !! www.cooltobekind.org.uk

This week I visited a site to check and clean the hedgehog boxes and within 5 mins of being onsite i spied a beautiful big red fox sitting in a field watching me. He ran off at a sprint and then a large muntjac deer appeared soon to be followed be a female. Wild bunnies […]

A big thanks to anyone and everyone who has donated newspapers over the winter months. Please keep them coming as they are great presents to find on your doorstep and very much welcome x

Had a busy day last Saturday helping The BHWT re-homing 160 hens. A georgeous day for the colony hens first taste of the outside world. It’s an absolutely amazing feeling seeing their faces experiencing such basic things for the first time. They were a feisty bunch to say the least and i hope they are […]

Bracknell Forest Voluntary Action are running some courses if anyone is interested in the ones listed which i think are most relevant to The Happy Hedgehog Rescue then please contact me by e-mail. Emergency First Aid at work Risk Assessment info@happyhedgehog.org.uk

I have traded in my usual Valentines card and hopeful bunch of flowers for a nest box. Today is the start of National Nest Box week!!! A good trade i think.

From all at the Happy Hedgehog Rescue here’s wishing you a Hoggy Valentine’s Day!

Yesterday i had the best xmas present ever and was  over the moon to see the return of my broken ankle robin. He has been missing for a few months so i thought the worst that the nasty sparrowhawk had had him. Sadly i watched the hunter take his wife and one baby late summer. Broken […]