I often find that small injured or sick birds and mammals such as hedgehogs migrate to my smallest smallholding. They hang around for me to scoop them up and rescue them. This happens several times throughout the year, and usually at a really inconvenient time. Luckily for me I found a place called Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue. They are a small registered wildlife charity set up to help people like me that would otherwise struggle to find somewhere to take these little patients.

Sam who runs the charity has done a brilliant job - always on hand, always welcoming and friendly, and never turning away any of my patients, however many times I might ring her up a week! She works full time nursing the animals, cleaning them out, treatments, rehabilitation and providing them with pretty much everything they need. We help her out by occasionally releasing the rather large, rotund hedgehog specimens that have been fully treated, fighting fit and fattened up ready for the big wide world again. It’s the very least we can do, seeing as she’s taken on so many sick animals for us so far. But like so many charities, Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue relies on donations from the public - do you think you could help?

To find out more about Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue and the very important work that they do, visit: http://www.wildlife-rescue.org.uk

If you would like to find out how you can help Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue with donations, there are a number of ways.

• By Cheque:
• Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue
• 72 Cemetery Road
• Houghton Regis
• Beds LU5 5DE

• By purchasing items from the Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue eBay store, where all money from purchases go directly towards the rescue and rehabilitation of the wildlife patients.
• If you are local to Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire, you could always volunteer
• Sponsor and adopt one of the residents at Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue - Hal the Crow, Percy the Pigeon, Oliver the Barn Owl, Skittle the Squirrel, Bruce the Hedgehog, or Clara the hen! Click Here to find out about each resident and some of the cases that have arrived and been treated at Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue.
• Donate any of the following useful and much needed items:

Item Needed	Why?		Item Needed	Why?
Disposable Gloves	Hygiene		Chicken Cat Food	Hedgehog Food
Sterilising Tablets	Hygiene		Chicken Cat Biscuits	Hedgehog Food
Kitchen Towels	Cleaning		Dried Mealworms	Hedgehog Treats
Baby Wipes	Cleaning Faces		Squirrel Mix	Squirrel Food
Wound Wipes	Cleaning Wounds		Chicken Puppy Food	Fox Cub Food
Savlon	Keeping wounds clean		Chicken Puppy Food	Baby Bird Food
Cohesive Bandages	Splinting limbs		Dried Insects	Baby Bird Food
Abidec Vitamin Drops	Food Supplement		Bird Seed	Adult Bird Food
Towels	Bedding		Layers Pellets	Duck Food
Virkon Disinfectant	Hygiene		Chick Crumbs	Duckling Food
1ml, 2ml 10ml and 20ml syringes (new and sealed)	Administering antibiotics and other medication		Goats Milk	Baby Rabbits/Squirrels
Catac Teats	Feeding mammals		Esbilac Milk	Baby Hedgehogs and other mammals
White Card	Admission Records		Goats Colostrum	Baby Rabbit Food Supplement

If you think you can help, please please do!!!! Sam at Bedfordshire Willdife Rescue has been absolutely brilliant with the hedgehogs she’s taken in from me. The amount of dedication and care that is put into treating and rehabilitating the animals is amazing, and all made possible by donations from the public.