Here we are making the most important leaflets on hedgehog rescue available online. You can download and print out a blank hedgehog care record sheet, as well as an extract from the legal requirements which must be complied with to ensure appropriate hedgehog care. In addition there are texts (and a recommendation) for specialists, in particular, the booklet for veterinary surgeons "The Hedgehog in the Vet’s Practice". All the publications are in German. We can make available some texts in other European languages on request – please write to us if you are looking for something – we may be able to help!

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You can obtain all our publications from our office or with the Online order form.

Not every hedgehog needs help – but every rescue must be appropriate!

Each of our so called "Little Series" provides 4 pages of information about hedgehogs with practical guidance on appropriate hedgehog rescue and advice on hedgehog conservation.

We provide relevant (German) publications for veterinary surgeons and rescue centres working closely with their vets. We recommend a booklet written by a veterinary surgeon with an extensive experience of hedgehogs "Igel in der Tierarztpraxis" (The Hedgehog in the Vet’s practice) for the current state of medical knowledge about hedgehogs. We refer to the CD on the diagnosis and treatment of parasitoses and mycoses of the hedgehog as a "recommendation" – the publication is not available online. The CD is in stock and can be ordered with a mouse click on the image on our Online order form. If you are interested in the paper file of that CD in English, please contact the German regional hedgehog society "Arbeitskreis Igelschutz Berlin".

According to our constitution, Pro Igel e.V. cannot campaign actively for these exotic hedgehogs which are kept as "pets" and unfortunately are becoming increasingly "fashionable". We campaign for the native hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus Linné 1758). Pro Igel categorically rejects the keeping of exotic hedgehogs in captivity. The information we have to hand vehemently argues against the purchase and keeping of such hedgehogs – which are mostly African white-bellied hedgehogs (Atelerix albiventris). For the information of dedicated hedgehog conservationists and animal lovers who are asked about exotic hedgehogs as pets, with the authors’ permission we have published, a report (in German language) by Dr Ditte and Giovanni Bandini.