‘All 5 hoglets survived!': Woman delivers 5 hedgehog babies when her friendly neighborhood hedgehog comes to her for help

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  • Meet Henry, the friendly hedgehog we've had living in our garden since June...
  • Three nights ago, Henry walked himself into our home and seemed a little off. I rang The British Hedgehog Preservation Society...
  • They advised I put Henry in a box, with water, dog food and a towel & gave me phone numbers to call in the morning if he got worse... m
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  • He ate all the food (knocked his water over twice) & 4 hours later seemed back to his usual self...
  • So at 1:45am I released him back into our garden. He climbed out of the box, seemed to look to thank me & scurried off...
  • & here's where it all changed last night (2 days after caring for him)...
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  • "Henry" is actually a "Henrietta" & came to our back door with 5 newborn hoglets!!
  • I jumped up the loft & grabbed the biggest box & we gently moved them all into it...
  • We placed heat pads in a towel under the box and added food & water for Mum & two more towels inside the box. Then left them be.
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  • All hoglets survived the night! I only ever open the box to check/replenish food & water (which Henrietta has had plenty of) & tonight found her nursing, her babies
  • After getting advice from Tiggywinkles, we will be taking the box outside later, putting it onto it's side & let Henrietta guide the hoglets to one of her nests. It's been an honour to help Henrietta & know it won't be the last we see of her She trusted us with her babies & we are honoured.

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