Learn about our new campaign, supported by Dame Judi Dench

Wiltshire Wildlife Hospital

Charity Number: 1056375

For emergencies please contact:

07850 778752

The Wiltshire Wildlife Hospital provides a 24 hour rescue and advice service for Wiltshire’s wildlife. Our team of dedicated volunteers rescue, treat, care for and rehabilitate mammals, birds and reptiles in preparation for their release back into the wild, in and around Wiltshire.

All animals are treated with equal importance and care, with species specific treatment to ensure the best possible outcome.

“The Wiltshire Wildlife Hospital is a fantastic place, especially if you care about small animals, small hurt animals and abandoned animals.
**The work they do is truly remarkable”**
Dame Judi Dench

Wiltshire-Wildlife-Hospital-24-Hour-Emergency-Wildlife-Care-baby-stoat.jpg — we need your help!

Help us treat and care for more animals by donating to our campaign for a new hospital building. Over the past two decades we have been rescuing ever increasing numbers of wildlife from Wiltshire and the surrounding counties. Pressure from habitat loss, climate change, modern housing, intensification of agriculture and ever busier road traffic means more and more of our native wildlife is in trouble. Last year we treated well over 4,000 animals and this number is increasing.

Wiltshire-Wildlife-Hospital-Current-Barn-24-hour-emergency-care.jpg — Our hospital

Our building, our home for the last 16 years, is desperately in need of replacing with a more efficient and effective hospital, to enable us to better care for the ever-growing number of animals we rescue and rehabilitate.
To find out more about our project to build a new hospital and to see the very lovely Dame Judi Dench support our work please click on the button below.

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Our ‘Little Blonde Bombshell’

In early January a very unusual hedgehog was discovered in a village close to the hospital. He is a rare blonde or ‘leucistic’ hog, and has caused quite a stir in the media! He was nicknamed ‘Boris’ live on air on BBC Radio Wiltshire, and although we never usually name our wild rescues, this one has stuck. Boris is one of several hundred juvenile hedgehogs we have in our care, all of them requiring warmth, food and medical attention. Hedgehogs need to be at least 600 grams to hibernate, and Boris came in at just over 300! So he, along with the others will stay with us now til Spring, when he will be released back where he was found.

Why do we get so many young hogs in? The main reason is the change in our seasons, caused by climate change, the longer and warmer months mean females have litters too late in the year for the babies to put on enough weight to hibernate. This, along with a greater degree of public awareness, means our numbers are increasing year on year. We cared for over 1,500 in total last year!

If you can help us to care for the hedgehogs, please do consider donating to us. Every penny is used to help the wildlife.

our covid19 precautions

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Ensuring the welfare and safety of our ‘key workers’ - our volunteers - is our biggest focus during this troubling time. To help us manage this we have put in place a number of measures to protect our workers here at the hospital while still maintaining the level of care we need to for the animals.

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If you have an animal that you need to drop off to us, please always call ahead to arrange to meet outside the hospital with one of our team, and please always wear a mask. The same applies for dropping off towels and newspapers or any food donations for the animals.

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If we need to collect an animal from you our volunteers will call ahead to arrange a safe collection time and maintain social distancing. We appreciate your extra efforts and support at this time.