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Hedgehogs are one of the British publics' favourite wild animals, if not the most favourite.
This has once again been proved following the fantastic response we have had to our appeal for tins of food for all the underweight juveniles we have at the moment.
Please keep your donations of food and funds coming so that we can give the best possible care to our animals.
Many, many thanks to those of you who have responded so magnificently to the appeal.
The publicity is still coming - tonight there will be a piece on Midlands Today (6.30pm) and tomorrow morning we are featuring live on BBC Breakfast from around 6am until 9.15am (so much for my lie-in!!!!)
Of course, other casualties are being brought in to us besides hedgehogs. We received a call about a badger on Monday which was in someones garden during the day, just lying out in the open. By the time we reached the address, the finder had (somehow!) managed to get the badger into a dustbin where he was sitting just peering up at the top. The chap said that it had tried to run off while he was waiting for us to arrive so he had put his foot in front of it to stop it going!!! He was either very brave or oblivious to the potential injuries he could have received from such an action!
Apart from some fairly old puncture wounds to his neck, probably dog injuries, we could find no other wounds but his behaviour suggested that he has sustained a blow to the head, probably from a car, so he is undergoing treatment at the moment.
The hedgehog which was rescued from a burning bonfire several weeks ago still continues to make progress - about three quarters of her burns have now healed and although she is quite scarred we are now confident that she will eventually be released back into the wild - but well away from any bonfires!!
Back to all the Tiggywinkles......will write again soon.
This has once again been proved following the fantastic response we have had to our appeal for tins of food for all the underweight juveniles we have at the moment.
Please keep your donations of food and funds coming so that we can give the best possible care to our animals.
Many, many thanks to those of you who have responded so magnificently to the appeal.
The publicity is still coming - tonight there will be a piece on Midlands Today (6.30pm) and tomorrow morning we are featuring live on BBC Breakfast from around 6am until 9.15am (so much for my lie-in!!!!)
Of course, other casualties are being brought in to us besides hedgehogs. We received a call about a badger on Monday which was in someones garden during the day, just lying out in the open. By the time we reached the address, the finder had (somehow!) managed to get the badger into a dustbin where he was sitting just peering up at the top. The chap said that it had tried to run off while he was waiting for us to arrive so he had put his foot in front of it to stop it going!!! He was either very brave or oblivious to the potential injuries he could have received from such an action!
Apart from some fairly old puncture wounds to his neck, probably dog injuries, we could find no other wounds but his behaviour suggested that he has sustained a blow to the head, probably from a car, so he is undergoing treatment at the moment.
The hedgehog which was rescued from a burning bonfire several weeks ago still continues to make progress - about three quarters of her burns have now healed and although she is quite scarred we are now confident that she will eventually be released back into the wild - but well away from any bonfires!!
Back to all the Tiggywinkles......will write again soon.
1 comment:
I saw you on the news this morning! I also saw some of the hedgehogs in a national newspaper last weekend :)
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