What happened to the hedgehog that was strimmered?
Several people have asked me how the hedgehog that was strimmered was doing. For my American friends, a strimmer is the same thing as a weed wacker.
A little hedgehog was flayed by a strimmer a couple of weeks ago and looked pretty bad - the person who injured it brought it in, obviously upset. It was touch and go for a while and the loving people at Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue made him as comfortable as possible with a treatment of painkillers and antibiotics. The injury was horrific to look at - imagine most of the skin being gone on your back.
One of the back legs was damaged and may still need to be amputated, and the strimmer removed some muscle on one of his sides (I told you it was horrific) so he is walking a bit lopsided. He is comfortable and healing, though.
We would generally have to put animals like this down because they can’t make it in the wild, but we have someone who has an organic garden with no predators, so when this little guy recovers fully (in the spring) he will be released in the garden to live a life of hedgehog luxury with other badly injured hedgies.
He is now named Lucky.
And this, my friends, is what makes it all worthwhile.
A little hedgehog was flayed by a strimmer a couple of weeks ago and looked pretty bad - the person who injured it brought it in, obviously upset. It was touch and go for a while and the loving people at Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue made him as comfortable as possible with a treatment of painkillers and antibiotics. The injury was horrific to look at - imagine most of the skin being gone on your back.
One of the back legs was damaged and may still need to be amputated, and the strimmer removed some muscle on one of his sides (I told you it was horrific) so he is walking a bit lopsided. He is comfortable and healing, though.
We would generally have to put animals like this down because they can’t make it in the wild, but we have someone who has an organic garden with no predators, so when this little guy recovers fully (in the spring) he will be released in the garden to live a life of hedgehog luxury with other badly injured hedgies.
He is now named Lucky.
And this, my friends, is what makes it all worthwhile.