Little Sweet pea, who came to us only about 3 weeks old, is growing nicely and eats just about any food presented to her.
She was moved out of an incubator onto a heated mat, but is now in an ordinary crate, and doing really well.
Once she has gained another 100g or so, she will be ready for release.
Daisy is still struggling with her bad leg, which is badly bruised and swollen, she is still unable to weight bear on this leg – we think that she may end up losing the leg.
Other than that, the wound on her face has healed, but we’re not sure if the eye is OK or not still. She is eating and drinking well, and seems fine in all other respects.
We were called out to a hog in need of help by a dog walker on Wednesday, but despite a thorough search, were unable to find him.
The next lunchtime, some good news – the hog that we were looking for had been found and brought in to us.
He was wandering around erratically and going in circles. He didn’t seem to see Dawn, the finder, or even roll up when she him picked up.
He was dehydrated, and had what look like bite marks on the left side of his face and nose, and a bald patch with 2 puncture wounds under his neck.
He had had subcut fluids, and was placed into a quiet box with food.
In the last two weeks we have had several phone calls to report very sick/injured hedgehogs – which the finders did not pick up and make safe. This meant the injured hedgehogs somehow manage to crawl away and were not found. They would then have to spend often days on end just slowly suffering and dying! If they had been picked up, we could very likely have saved their life, or at least put a humane end to their suffering.
We had this adult male hog dropped off to us on Tuesday morning from Blandford, it had been found laying out on the drive, not moving and did not roll up when poked.
It was dehydrated and had some bite wounds on it’s right side, just above the skirt.
We gave it subcut fluids for the dehydration and shock, cleaned and treated his wounds and placed him in one of the ICU’s , but he sadly passed away an hour later.
It had dehydration and some bite wounds on it’s right side, just above the skirt.
We have given it subcut fluids for the dehydration and shock, cleaned and treated his wounds and placed him in one of the ICU’s , but he sadly passed away an hour later.
You can’t beat a cup of tea and some pots of hedgehog poop to look at under the microscope – I get all the jobs!
I used our new suction machine to clean out a massively infected wound on a hog, it cleaned all the pus and blood out really well – I’m very impressed, and I’m sure the poor hog appreciates all that gunk being removed from it’s body too.
We had a call about a hedgehog in trouble on Sundayday, so it was off to Bearwood to collect an adult female hedgehog with a very bad cough.
This is almost certainly a secondary respiratory infection due to a heavy lung worm burden.
She will have nebuliser treatment for the respiratory infection, and once confirmed from checking a poo sample, will be treated for lungworm.
Another one of our emergencies;
She had been taken to a vet by the finder, where she had stitches in her mouth and front leg, and the finder then had her for about ten days.
She had not responded after the vets treatment, and the finder called us for advice, and we felt the hog should come to us for aid.
All I can say is that I hope we don’t have too many days and nights like last weekend!
Emergency after emergency. Four hogs giving birth, one of which produced four stillborn babies, two mothers had four babies each, and one had six!
