If you didn't believe they were real......... (1 Viewer)

[Mrsambulancekidd]

THIS is a wild haggis..........

Ok not really, this is a hedgehog.

The following is his story.....

This is Nelson the Hedgehog.
He was rescued by Foxy Lodge Wildlife Rescue in Norfolk, UK, where he still lives.
He was born without quills due to a genetic condition similar to alopecia and would be extremely vulnerable in the wild.
Thankfully he was rescued and otherwise is a happy and healthy little hog.

 

[Just smiffy]

Looks like a kids cartoon character.. little thing..

Is it a myth that hedgehog had to have flees to survive…

 

[AndyPK]

Lovely little creatures.....we have several visiting our garden each night to sample the calci worms I leave out for them....fascinating to watch their antics on camera - the way they roll each other around when ‘fighting’!

 

[AndyPK]

Looks like a kids cartoon character.. little thing..

Is it a myth that hedgehog had to have flees to survive…

According to the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, that’s an Old Wives Tale....

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

Lovely little creatures.....we have several visiting our garden each night to sample the calci worms I leave out for them....fascinating to watch their antics on camera - the way they roll each other around when ‘fighting’!

They are and they need all the help they can get.

Looks like a kids cartoon character.. little thing..

Is it a myth that hedgehog had to have flees to survive…

It is....

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[Mrsambulancekidd]

Please do not feed hedgehogs on piles of mealworms, peanuts and sunflower hearts?
Their offspring suffer from Metabolic Bone Disease.
Fractures, bendy bones, inability to walk.
Transparent bones under x-ray.
Best to top up the food for your ground feeding birds in the morning.

The best food you can put out for them is straight forward cat food dry or wet.
Some say you can't feed fish based cat food, but that is more for the rescue centres who have to clean up the extra stinky poo it creates.

Fruit is no use to them, they will fill up on it, but then it passes straight through with zero nutrition benefit.

 

[movan]

Please keep us updated on the little bald guy. X

 

[PhilMary]

Please keep us updated on the little bald guy. X

Err, are you referring to our Funster joke teller of no fixed abode old-mo ?

 

[Quackers]

We have a Hedgehog rescue centre close to Woodside Field and have a film about their work ready to show at the two rallies for anybody who is interested?

 

[Otter Spotter]

Hi Hazel,
Dee asks if you need a woolly jumper knitting for Nelson ?

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[Mrsambulancekidd]

Please keep us updated on the little bald guy. X

I will if anything else appears about him.
Maybe you could take a look for the rescue that cares for him.... http://www.foxylodge.yolasite.com/

 

[63720]

He doesn't look wild, perhaps mildly exasperated

 

[Norfolk Nige]

I will if anything else appears about him.
Maybe you could take a look for the rescue that cares for him.... http://www.foxylodge.yolasite.com/

They are a very good small organisation. I took a young Buzzard to them a couple of years ago. It had been sitting on the ground in the woods at the bottom of my garden for a few hours looking very poorly. It didn’t even make a fuss when I wrapped it up and put it in the back of my Landy. RSPB recommended I took it there. Sadly it did not survive, we think it had eaten something which had been poisoned and ingested the poison itself.

 

[Mrsambulancekidd]

They are a very good small organisation. I took a young Buzzard to them a couple of years ago. It had been sitting on the ground in the woods at the bottom of my garden for a few hours looking very poorly. It didn’t even make a fuss when I wrapped it up and put it in the back of my Landy. RSPB recommended I took it there. Sadly it did not survive, we think it had eaten something which had been poisoned and ingested the poison itself.

That is such a shame, but you did you best and the poor soul didn't suffer any longer.