Cute hedgehog family returned to the wild!

It's the start of our hedgehog season at Wildlife Aid. Every year, we hand rear hundreds of injured or orphaned hedgehogs to return them to the wild later in the year.
Recently, it was release time for a very special hedgehog family. They had been rushed to us after mum was found with an injured foot. With no way to find foot, the family had not been doing well...
Luckily, a kind member of the public brought them to us and, after a period of rest, some food and some time to grow they were looking much better! After a final vet-check, they were taken back to where they were found and set free once again. Good luck!
PLEASE DONATE - Just £3 from every viewer can help us save many more animals! Online: bit.ly/wafdonate Text Donation: Text WILD3 to 70300 to give £3.00, (WILD5 to give £5.00 and WILD10 to give £10.00) UK residents only.
Thank you for your support!
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL
bit.ly/WildlifeAidTV
CONNECT WITH US!
Facebook ► / wildlifeaid
Twitter ► / wildlifeaid
Instagram ► / wildlifeaid
Website ► www.wildlifeaid.org.uk
About TheWildlifeAid TV...
Ever wanted to see the goings on behind the scenes at a Wildlife Rescue Centre? Well now you can! We have super cute hedgehogs eating their dinner, dramatic rescues of wild deer and everything in between. So click subscribe to keep up to date with our new videos uploaded weekly!

[@grytlappar]

I love hedgehogs. There needs to be a hedgehog emoji!

[@wildlifeaid]

Haha that's true!

[@cryingash]

So cute! My mum is also caring for wild hedgehogs. She‘s living near a forest and so she put up little houses for the hedgehogs, which are also heated during winter and colder seasons. And she‘s making daily fresh food for them to help support them. :)

[@dindinprivate3477]

They should hibernate during the colder months. Providing heating may be doing them a disservice.

[@Kumiko026]

I love hedgehogs. Such the cutest things ever. I had two growing up. Shaymin and Sonic. Loved them both!

[@aleksandrap.9192]

Thank you for helping hedgehogs:) You are all precious.

[@wildlifeaid]

Thank you so much :)

[@HelenaMikas]

A perfect rescue as they are so precious .I do think they should have full protected status.I read that there numbers were around 30million in the 1950:s and has dropped to around 1.5 million now .. Cars / traps and pesticides I guess .So you did a great deed making sure these got a second chance .Beautiful inoffensive animals ..*

[@wildlifeaid]

Yes, they have suffered a 96% decline in population since the 1950's! Sadly it's a combination of cars, pesticides and people deciding to wall off their gardens! :(

[@garycard1456]

Vast swathes of English countryside lost to ugly identikit rabbit hutch housing estates does not help, either. Nor does the use of molluscides (snail and slug killer) made from synthetic chemicals. If I see a slug on my plants at night, I simply pick it off and throw it over into the adjacent field, where hedgehogs sniff for food at night. Rodenticide is probably harmful to hedgehogs if accidentally ingested. If rat bait has the capacity to cause rats and mice to experience a cruel and lingering death through uncontrollable bleeding (rodenticide's mode of action is by preventing blood from clotting, hence the poor rat or mouse slowly bleeds to death by blood loss), then I see no reason why it can't do the same to hedgehogs (and other wildlife such as owls) if accidentally ingested.

[@DONK8008]

Hedgehogs are so cute, we got a couple living down the shrubby area at the side of our flat. We put some food and water out for them each night.

[@madman2u]

I guess you don't believe in survival of the fittest. The reason we don't feed wild animals is because they may become reliant on humans; something that eventually will harm them. It may be either due to falling prey to sickness or hunger because they relied on humans to feed them, or it may cause interactions which is dangerous for both the animal and humans. The best is to just leave the animals alone and appreciate them from a distance. If it's harmed, call wildlife services and it's their problem after that. The only time we should help animals is when they're injured or stuck due to human actions, direct or indirect such as getting stuck in a piece of pipe, fence or getting hit by a car.

[@obsidiansea]

Yes, but hedgehogs are an endangered species. Helping them alleviates the effect we have on them.

[@hipocampelofantocame]

I watched your video Far Cry 4-Got Pelt? and now I know what you are.

[@ManuelGuzman067]

LOLDONGS never seen one their so darn cute 😁

[@getin3949]

Its a good thing Simon didn't just leave this family alone.

[@getin3949]

Simon, you're a peach of a man. I just love to listen to you talk to the animals.

[@wildlifeaid]

Thank you! Very kind!

[@Kim-lc3fv]

Great story! Thank you all. 🙂

[@TheFurriestOne]

Cute li'l spike-pigs! Nicely raised!

[@wildlifeaid]

Haha! Spike pigs! I love it! :D

[@TheFurriestOne]

Heh, thanks! I think I got that from the Redwall series of books by Brian Jacques, otters are river-dogs!

[@yesenia5897]

This channel warms my heart every single video. Thank you for doing this and showing us how beautiful wildlife is 💖

[@wildlifeaid]

Thank you, that's very kind! Glad you like our videos!

[@jydeinden]

I loveee that animal.. They are SO cute at all ages

[@mira55x-planetnalzena15]

the one animal that my favourite fictional hero is based on! ^^ thank you for helping them out! :D

[@xana969]

Beautiful creatures, they are so adorable. I've had the privilege of seeing them in the field once. Unfortunately, many of them die when they are run over. Admirable the great work you do for the animals Wildife Aid. You are incredible👌👏

[@wildlifeaid]

Thank you, that really is kind of you to say. It's such a shame that they are so hard to see now! :(

[@garycard1456]

Our native Tiddlywinks has a formidable close relative- a danger noodle-munching hedgehog very much at home in a SCORCHING DESERT: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHW5ZpebbZeDl9E

[@emeraldqueen1994]

Lakota VeganWolf, love your name 🐺

[@LadyVineXIII]

They're all so adorable! Go Litte Guys Go!

[@wildlifeaid]

Safely back in the wild now! :D

[@animalpalace3750]

I love animals so much and thank you for everything you do!

[@wildlifeaid]

Thank you very much! :D

[@DanielRenardAnimation]

Little cuties. 🦔 There's a lot scurrying about in the summer/autumn in my neighborhood. My mother's dog completely ignores them when I take her for an evening walk, probably having lost interest in them, after having met one in the garden and got her little snout too close. 😉

[@elpresidente2055]

Love you guys!

[@0manderijn0]

another job well done :D

[@wildlifeaid]

Thank you! :D

[@mwindanji6714]

Sweet hoglets ! Such a great uplifting video...

[@wildlifeaid]

Thank you very much!

[@dougcarroll9623]

Great work

[@wildlifeaid]

Thank you very much!

[@louisebrownie9160]

❤️❤️ its so awesome to see them go back!

[@wildlifeaid]

Releases are always the best part of the job :)

[@heather8697]

Awesome job Simon and crew💕

[@wildlifeaid]

Thank you very much :)

[@MertenNijenhuis]

cute

[@animemusicluver1]

Mom's like "welp vacations over"

[@f8ofk8]

Love to my favorite Simon Cowell!!! What a cute little passel of spiky buns! Your's is ok, too, Simon, lol.

[@f8ofk8]

@Saoirse Justice McKenna, umm. Not referring to his head, lol.

[@jamespisano1164]

Good work, guys!

[@wildlifeaid]

Thank you very much!

[@KJMudge]

Can someone please tell me what they call baby hedgehogs they are just adorable ? I know Australian echidnas are a totally different species but a cute fact is that echidna babies are called PUGGLES cute huh ? ❤

[@wildlifeaid]

Baby hedgehogs are called hoglets :)

[@KJMudge]

@@wildlifeaid Thankyou 😊

[@danielwickham3439]

aww cute these videos really make my day i also saved a spider recently from being squashed it was in my room just chilling i think it was avoiding the rain :( so i decided to put in in the corner of my room out of the way and safe from being squashed i left it thier for a few hours for it to get out of the rain then put it back outside

[@enzoma7253]

Awww...good luck little ones!!

[@louverousse9023]

When I had dogs, would go walk them in the evening and they would find every hedgehog the could to play with them, no they never hurt them , they were just very curious about what thoses prickly things were. .. I would gently pick them up and put them under a bush whilst telling my dogs to leave them alone . Strangely enough, the dogs listened and let them be . Beautiful memories I must say . Thanks alot for what you do for all these animals, Hugs to you Dear Simon and the whole staff ! Take care .

[@animemusicluver1]

Yayyy 😍

[@Xjag]

I love hedgehogs, we have one (an African Pygmy) as a pet he’s pretty cool

[@annemariegraff2743]

👍👍👍😊😊❤❤❤🙋‍♀️

[@dimvalsgames9721]

LOVELYYYYYYYYYYYY.... :)

[@wildlifeaid]

Thank you :)

[@ashy9204]

Second to comment and also, such cute baby hedgehogs!

[@leilawolf1857]

💗

[@randomfox9970]

Wildlife aid ain't it better to release em in to wild when dark ? But wow cute video I hand reared 6 baby hedgehog's dang it was hard work but rewards was well worth it 💪🐺🐾💕😉👌

[@wildlifeaid]

This video was taken just before dark, it just looks lighter on camera :)

[@randomfox9970]

@@wildlifeaid ah OK but must be a damn good camara ? Keep up fantastic content my hedgehog's still comes to visit me 💕💪🐺🐾👌

[@tng7647]

930 likes to 1

[@bozenapl6510]

🤗🥰👏👌❤️🇵🇱🥰

[@animalpalace3750]

How many rescues do you do a day?

[@wildlifeaid]

It depends on the time of year, but currently 6-8 a day :)

[@voidv6687]

Who was the one person who disliked this video

[@kathymacomber5115]

Why aren’t they protected?

[@ManuelGuzman067]

In what animal family are these cuties from

[@wildlifeaid]

European hedgehogs are in the Erinaceidae family :)

[@ManuelGuzman067]

Wildlife Aid ✌

[@orcablackfishyf2817]

SECOND

[@angeloflifelight]

1:40 is that blood?

[@wildlifeaid]

No, it's the remains of the nail polish we use to ID them at the centre :)

[@solojungle2508]

First

[@orcablackfishyf2817]

Are you Simon cowell from the x factor

[@wildlifeaid]

No, but I would like his bank balance!