As of: April 6, 2024, 3:17 p.m
By: Sandra Barbara Furtner
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A woman from England finds a weak hedgehog and cares for it lovingly. After he doesn't eat, she takes him to the vet clinic. But it's not an injured animal.
An animal-loving woman from Knutsford (a town in the county of Cheshire in northwest England) finds a motionless animal on the sidewalk. She suspects that it is a baby hedgehog that urgently needs help. To give the baby a chance, she takes it home, puts it in a box that she lovingly lines with newspaper and puts food in it.
Baby hedgehog turns out to be a hat bobble
A woman mistakes a pom-pom from a hat for a hedgehog that has curled up. (Symbolic image) © Imago/Zoonar
But when the little one still doesn't eat the next morning, she takes the prickly animal to the nearby veterinary clinic at
Lower Moss Wood Nature Reserve & Wildlife Hospital
. An animal protection organization that takes care of injured wild animals. How to tell if a hedgehog is healthy or sick.
“When good intentions meet with confusion,” writes the wildlife rescue on its Facebook page. And further: “Our hearts melted when a kind soul thought he was saving a baby hedgehog, only to discover it was a fluffy pom-pom from a bobble hat.” Clinic director Janet Kotze admits
to the
Daily Mail
: “I couldn’t believe what I saw.” How to help hedgehogs after hibernation.
Nevertheless, there is a lot of understanding for the animal-loving lady and the clinic staff are of the opinion: “Remember that kindness knows no limits, even when it comes to an animal.”
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When hedgehogs really need help
The organization offers the following tip: “If you see a hedgehog during the day, it is a sign that something is wrong.” Even if hedgehogs show signs of extreme malnutrition, are sick or injured, they need help, advises the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany. These three exceptions show when hedgehogs need help.
Despite the mistake, the Facebook community is enthusiastic
Animal rescuers don't always have it easy in everyday life and often see more suffering than they would like. And so they are happy when they can laugh heartily about a mix-up for a change. “Wildlife rehabilitation can sometimes be very stressful. This lovely lady gave us some much-needed laughs,” the organization writes. And the followers respond:
“That sounds like a story my father told me about his elderly aunt. She asked him to feed a hedgehog that was under her shed. When he looked, it turned out it was an old toilet brush."
"This is so cute. What a nice woman."
“Highlight”.
“It’s such a charming story.”