We have an opportunity for two-day-a-week work experience placements, working Mondays & Tuesdays, 9-5, for a minimum of 10 days/5 weeks or longer if wanted. Tasks are hands on husbandry, cleaning & feeding in the hospital wards and outside rehabilitation enclosures. You need to be over 16, have current tetanus
Read MoreGood News! Metaldehyde Slug pellets can no longer be sold or used in the UK, as of Friday 1st April, because they mainly contain a pesticide called Metaldehyde which poses an unacceptable risk to birds, dogs, and wildlife such as hedgehogs. We know slugs munching on your prize-winning lettuces can
Read MoreWhen I enter the Hedgehog Room, I start first at the heated bank, as the most poorly animals are here. I look at each Hedgehog’s admittance card, which has all the information on the patient since its admittance telling me what is wrong with it and what medication has been
Read MoreWe have plenty of exciting activities planned to keep the little ones busy this Easter! From 11th April – 22nd April (Closed on Sundays) we have various animal talks, arts and crafts sessions and even the opportunity to meet some of our permanent prickly residents! The full schedule can be
Read MoreWith the lighter nights and warmer weather comes baby season! Every spring and summer we take in hundreds of baby birds, some of which may not have needed to be picked up. Please see below a useful guide of when to help:
Read MoreWe were delighted to have a team from BBC The One Show, along with presenter & zoologist Hannah Stitfall, here with us for a day filming our work with hedgehogs. You can watch the episode on BBC iPlayer by clicking the link below. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0013dsl/the-one-show-12012022 Thank you to all at the
Read MoreWe were delighted to have the team from Steph’s Packed Lunch here filming at Tiggywinkles, take a look at how they got on in the video below. Shared with thanks to Steph’s Packed Lunch and Channel 4!
Read MoreWe were disheartened to learn that the hedgehog has been included in the first red list for British mammals. It is important that we do what we can to help the declining population, so we thought this would be a good opportunity to share with you some ways we can
Read MoreDue to the recent changes in the law we are no longer legally allowed to release rehabilitated grey squirrel. For more information on this please click here. This awful ruling has of course put wildlife rehabilitators, vets and members of the public in an incredibly difficult situation – we all
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