Please put out a dish of water, now. And refresh it tonight, and every night, just before dark. Leave yourself a reminder note on the fridge.📜✍️ Babies are dying because the mums are too dehydrated to make enough milk for their needs. Even if you had a rain shower in the night, the natural water sources are still all dried up, and our wildlife are suffering. It takes so little to make their hard little lives easier. A turn of the tap is nothing for you, but could mean the difference between life and death for your nocturnal visitors, who are often forgotten about but who have slept all through the hot day and wake so thirsty. Hedgehogs in particular need to drink a lot of water because of their shape: they have a large surface area to volume ratio, so lose water via natural evaporation quicker than other mammals. Their mouths are set back under their snout, so drinking from a deep or small diameter dish (like a Gü pot) is uncomfortable for them, as it means them having to submerge their nose. A wide shallow dish is best; a plant pot saucer or, like this, a glass flan dish or pyrex lid - it's heavy enough not to tip up but nice and shallow and wide. So please put out a dish of life saving water right now, front and back of your house, and refresh it before you go to bed tonight. It'll be the easiest way you'll ever save a life.💝