Hedgehogs enjoying their luxurious new lodgings
THERE has been a lot of excitement at Woodlands Animal Sanctuary in Holmeswood over the last year since being awarded a grant from Support Adoption for Pets for a new cattery, including rehoming, maternity, residents and isolation blocks.
And now the sanctuary is able to move all its cats into their new accommodation.
The last 12 months has seen a lot of hard work by a lot of different people connected to the animal rescue centre to see this dream into fruition, from the initial planning/designing and budgeting to coping with a global pandemic mid build.
Along with the cats receiving new digs, the hedgehogs, who are enjoying their rehabilitation at Woodlands, have also received new accommodation. They have been moved from their dedicated hog lodge into a purpose built room within their stable block, which is bigger and much more suitable to the numbers of hedgehogs the charity is now dealing with.
After a slow start on the hedgehog front this season, the team admitted 21 hedgehogs over two days last month, bringing their total number of hogs to over 75. Over half of these hogs are under 250g and so are classed as babies and too young to be released as yet.
This means that these juvenile hogs will need to be monitored and nurtured at Woodlands until they reach a weight of over 750g, which means they then have a good chance of surviving in the wild.
Once they reach a satisfactory weight and their health is deemed as good as it can be, they will be released from one of the sanctuary’s designated soft release sites.
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