By Angie Brown

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The pair are trained in how to care for hedgehogs as well as in first aid for the animals.

They have also put 90% of their volunteers through the course.

“We are not vets but we can rehabilitate hedgehogs, anything bigger than a 50 pence piece wound-wise would go straight to the vet and antibiotics are always issued by the vet on an individual case basis,” Sharon said.

She said it all started when they came across a poorly hedgehog at the side of the road when they were out for a drive to Kirkcaldy.

“We ended up driving it out to Alloa, which is a 50-mile round trip to get it to the SSPCA wildlife hospital,” Sharon said.

When they found another poorly hedgehog a couple of weeks later they made the trip again.

So they turned their house into a rescue centre – with seven ICU units, 40 cages and a team of 18 volunteers help clean the cages and check the animals.

Since then the couple have had hedgehogs covered in fly larvae, tangled in football nets, unwittingly cut and speared by gardening tools, and bitten by dogs.

Others have been found with exhaustion, diseases or burnt from pesticides and other chemicals.