\n Hallswood Animal Sanctuary, based near Norwich, has issued the plea following the death of a hedgehog due to severe dehydration.\n<\/p>\n
\n It comes as Norfolk is in its third heatwave of the year, with very little rain.\n<\/p>\n
\n Large parts of the county are also in a hosepipe ban after record-breaking temperatures of 37C were\u00a0reached in Lingwood last month.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesman for the centre said: “Please put fresh water out, the wildlife are dying for a drink.\n<\/p>\n
\n It is currently hoglet season (Image: Hallswood Animal Sancuary)\n<\/p>\n
\n “Once they are dehydrated, it\u2019s only time before they die.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The most important thing you can do at present is put fresh water down in your gardens.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The centre shared the recent case of an older female hedgehog that was found struggling in a garden during the day and died shortly after being brought to the centre.\n<\/p>\n
\n The hedgehog was “lactating and so dehydrated she drank endlessly, after she had given everything to her young.”\n<\/p>\n
\n RSPCA East Winch Centre is also currently caring for more than 100 young hedgehogs, with 55 still needing milk feeds.\n<\/p>\n
\n Like Hallswood Animal Sanctuary, the RSPCA centre is also urging people to help where they can, especially as it is hoglet season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hallswood Animal Sanctuary, based near Norwich, has issued the plea following the death of a hedgehog due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-697412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}