Costs to Care
The average cost to rehabilitate and release an overwintering hedgehog is £100 per animal, roughly. Given many rescues overwinter upwards of 50 hedgehogs, well, you do the math.
The table below gives a list of some of the more common things and the prices.
| Issue | Costs |
|---|---|
To give life saving first aid treatment to one hedgehog |
£9.20 |
To x-ray a hedgehog's fractured leg |
£17.80 |
To administer a course of antibiotics to one hedgehog |
£12.60 |
To provide essential dental treatment for a hedgehog |
£41.20 |
To feed a hedgehog during an average 12 week stay |
£19.60 |
To wash and disinfect one hedgehog's food bowl & bedding |
£1.00 |
To buy a feeding equipment to feed orphaned mammals |
£6.70 |
To provide life saving laboratory diagnostic test results |
£17.00 |
To hand rear one baby hedgehog |
£56.00 |
To keep one hedgehog in the Hospital for the whole winter - to prevent it from hibernating (which could be dangerous if hedgehogs are underweight or injured) |
£111.50 |
To buy a specialist bed for unconscious and seriously ill patients |
£15.00 upwards |
To operate on an injured hedgehog |
£150.00 plus |
To buy one intensive care unit |
£750.00 |
The information above is based on the experience of Tiggywinkles and was current as at January 2011.
