Hoglets are born blind and deaf, with no way to sense the environment around them. Their eyes are closed at birth, and their tiny ears have yet to unfold. Therefore, they rely on their mother for ...

Four little hoglets orphaned after their hedgehog mother was poisoned are in a rescue centre after a community stepped in to help them. Karen Alexander-Clarke, who runs East Budleigh's Hog Shack, said ...

A mother hedgehog has been reunited with her six hoglets in a "rare and extraordinary" set of events. The mother was accidentally removed from her nest, in a Lincolnshire garden compost heap, on ...

A hedgehog and her hoglets had to be rescued after she had given birth behind a sofa of an elderly couple's home in Bury St Edmunds. Suffolk Prickles Hedgehog Rescue Centre, in Stonham, welcomed the ...

Dorset Hedgehog Rescue has taken in almost 600 spiny creatures since it opened its brand-new centre last year.

The humble hedgehog, the national treasure of our back gardens, is dwindling in numbers - more so this autumn. And as gardeners prepare for winter, B&Q wants to encourage the nation to do their bit in ...

A hedgehog with a broken pelvis was able to give birth to five hoglets safely this week, thanks to the intervention of a wildlife rescuer. Veterinary nurse Yvonne McCann, who runs Hedgehog Rescue ...

The Oregon Zoo added new hedgehogs this month when Hakuna Matata, an African pygmy hedgehog gave birth to a litter of five hoglets. "When we think of African predators, we often think of lions and ...

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