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Today is the big day of freedom for our foster hedgehogs ‘Mr. Moody’ and ‘Fat Berta’, whom we took in in July and nursed back to health for this day. We are a little wistful, as we have grown fond of the young hedgehogs

In the first few days, we could only observe the little white-breasted hedgehogs in the evening when they were eating, but they quickly lost their shyness and started coming to their food bowl during the day, becoming more and more trusting.

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While enjoying our morning coffee on the terrace, our dogs suddenly start barking. In the middle of the garden path, a baby white-breasted hedgehog has curled up into a ball, which it shouldn't be doing at this time of day. Since we had already rescued another young hedgehog two days earlier, we took it to the office for a closer look.

The little white-breasted hedgehog weighed almost 270 grams, appeared healthy, and was completely free of ticks. She was stronger than ‘Mr. Moody’, whom we had found in the garden two days earlier, and was christened ‘Fat Berta’.

After yesterday's storm, we found a baby white-breasted hedgehog at the edge of the barn this morning, which had taken refuge on a piece of wood. Since it was already light out and the young hedgehog was very small, we decided to take it into our care before our dogs noticed it.

The little white-breasted hedgehog was examined, appeared healthy, and had no ticks. It was a male, weighing 190 grams when first weighed.