Laine was inspired by this story we came across in the Christian Science Monitor about hedgehog rescue in England:

This is St. Tiggywinkles - a wildlife hospital. It’s where 500 hedgehogs are served meals in bed every day in the hope they’ll put on enough weight to survive the winter.

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The phone rang constantly with people who’d found ailing hedgehogs…  Stocker would give advice on hedgehog care, but sometimes he’d ask the caller to simply put the hedgehog on the train.

"I knew that the British Rail network used to carry racing pigeons," he says. "So I contacted British Rail and made the arrangement that if somebody had an injured hedgehog, they could put it on the train at their station [in a box] and they would go straight through to Aylesbury." Hedgehogs from as far away as Scotland made the free journey as a Red Star parcel.

Is that straight out of Beatrix Potter or what?  Gotta love the British, especially their flair at names.

Sadly, I can’t guarantee Laine’s hedgehog will be the one in this household putting on weight to make it through the wet season.  In fact it’s unlikely to make it through the night in one piece.  Life’s rough out here on the frontier!