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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Sirin Kale

‘I tuck them in at night’: the retired nurse who runs a hospital for sick hedgehogs

Sandra Lowe at the hedgehog hospital, which she built in her Newcastle garden
Sandra Lowe at the ‘hogspital’, which she built in her Newcastle garden. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

Dudley the hedgehog was found abandoned by the roadside in June last year. He was a newborn, scarcely 48 hours old. He weighed just 37 grams. His eyes and ears wouldn’t open. A kind stranger knew just where to take him.

Sandra Lowe snapped on some blue surgical gloves and went to work. She mixed up a milk solution, for nutrition, with cold fennel tea, to stop the bloat. Dudley had to be fed with a syringe every two hours. Lowe worked on him all night.

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