This female hedgehog didn’t make it I’m afraid. She was very lifeless and freezing cold on arrival, with heavy flystrike.
We cleaned the flystrike off while warming her on a heat pad at the same time. Many of the eggs had hatched into maggot, and she had literally thousands of them in her ears.
After cleaning off the flystrike, she was placed into one of our ICU’s, but sadly died a short time after.
This years figures to date; 606 hedgehogs entered our rescue 259 were released to Wild 76 are fostered out 168
This is April, an adult female hog, 525g, found wobbling and unable to stand, covered in flystrike. She is very
Tracy was called out earlier this evening to rescue a hedgehog trapped in a hole. On arrival however, it became
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