Another one of today’s entries, an approximately 3 week old hoglet, found out alone at lunchtime in Lytchett Minster. Was observed from a distance for some time, but no sign of mum or of the hoglet knowing where he needed to be.
He was picked up, placed in a box and given some dog meat, which he ate ravenously. We were called, and collected him 20 minutes later.
He is now in an incubator getting warm.
The guys from Castlemain Groundworks were here working on the foundations to our new hedgehog ward today, arriving at 07.30
We have had another hog brought in this evening, as it was noticed hobbling about during the day, and the finders also recognised that it was dehydrated.
We gave it a check over, and noticed that it’s back right leg had been cut almost through, and that broken bones were visible.
We had a call this morning about a “massive hedgehog” that was “falling all over the place.” On collecting him,
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