Help!! Found a hoglet no rescues have room atm.

That's sad, but you don't know what had happened to it before you took it in.

I believe ordinary cat food is advisable, or raw mince. And you must never give hedgehogs milk - it kills them.

As they eat fruit and vegetables too, you could offer grated carrots or apples.

I live in Denmark, where it is illegal to care for hedgehogs yourself, so I am not a great deal of help, but a vet or zoologist should be able to advise you.

glammagran

Update After 2 days of looking for a rescue Oak & Furrow in Cricklade agreed to take the hoglet this morning. Sadly it was too late as despite our best efforts the little hoglet died overnight. 🥲

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But you did your best. Maybe there was something wrong with it anyway.

So sorry to hear that. Poor little thing.

Update After 2 days of looking for a rescue Oak & Furrow in Cricklade agreed to take the hoglet this morning. Sadly it was too late as despite our best efforts the little hoglet died overnight. 🥲

We had one out during the day. It weighed 250gms so not heavy enough to survive. I dropped it off at a local Hedgehog Rescue with voluntary £10 donation. They have many many hoglets.

Would Pets Corner type places, in childrens' entertainment type places, take it in?

Hope it all goes well. I had no idea what a hoglet was - thought it was a young male pig! What a privilege to be able to care for one of these creatures.

Our local rescues donations list is for Royal Canin mother and baby kibble biscuits, calciworms and Whiskas poultry in jelly pouches.

I feed my night-time visitors on a hedgehog food called Spike.
They seem to love it.

MayBee70

Witzend

My Dbro and SiL have kept hoglets that hadn’t enough weight to survive over winter, IIRC in a sort of rabbit hutch thing, fed on cat food IIRC, but I gather you can now buy hedgehog food.

They prefer cat food to hedgehog food. The important thing is not to give it mealworms. I think I bought purina kitten food but they like the expensive pouches.

Oooh, MayBee, I don't think it needs to be expensive pouches😁

I've a friend who volunteers at a hedgehog rescue centre and they were quite happy to take the mid price range tins of cat food that my cats turned their noses up at... (they didn't like that particular flavour)

There's a Facebook group called Bracknell Wildlife who might have some addresses.

Witzend

My Dbro and SiL have kept hoglets that hadn’t enough weight to survive over winter, IIRC in a sort of rabbit hutch thing, fed on cat food IIRC, but I gather you can now buy hedgehog food.

They prefer cat food to hedgehog food. The important thing is not to give it mealworms. I think I bought purina kitten food but they like the expensive pouches.

Glamma, I found the whole experience very interesting and I was sorry when I couldn’t see it through to the hoglet’s release.

My Dbro and SiL have kept hoglets that hadn’t enough weight to survive over winter, IIRC in a sort of rabbit hutch thing, fed on cat food IIRC, but I gather you can now buy hedgehog food.

Look after it for the winter you ll not regret it

DH has taken it to a local vet this morning who said it was in good health and removed a single tick from its head. But it’s back with us as nobody will take it.

My son lives fairly near Tiggywinkles which is a wildlife rescue centre, for injured and orphaned creatures. It'in Bucks, would only be of use if you lived not too far from there.

Yes, I’ve looked after a baby hedgehog through the winter.
Our vet and I were both attending an adult education course on local natural history and when we had to take our Golden Retriever in for vaccinations he asked me to look after a baby hedgehog that someone had just brought in to him as he didn’t have time to.
We kept it through the winter in a rabbit hutch in the garage and fed it mostly on cat food as far as I remember. Cat food has a much higher level of protein than dog food.
When it was nearly at the right weight we’d booked to go on holiday so I took the hoglet to the lecturer of the natural history course. He wasn’t particularly pleased about it as he was looking after several already himself but agreed to keep him until he could be released.
I used to have several photos of the baby hedgehog being weighed, much to the interest of our retriever. And also several of it safe between the dog’s paws when we let it exercise outside.

Hopefully this might give you some more info.

www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/autumn-juveniles/

Could one of the rescue centres give you some advice?
Well done for looking after him/her.