Hogs
Michela Update
Michela is healing well, she has a serious battle scare on her underside but will soon be ready for release.
19 September, 2025
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Michela is healing well, she has a serious battle scare on her underside but will soon be ready for release.
Strimmer casualty number 4 of today, a little 301g juvenile male. Wound was full of maggots and infection which stank to high heaven.
Litter – this juvenile hog had a safety ring from a bottle cap around its body, which must have been there for some time as the skin had grown over
Strimmer injury 3, again note the chopped off spikes from the strimmer. This one came in this morning from Castle vets in Dorchester after having been taken there by a
Strimmer injury 2 – note the chopped off spines from the strimmer. This hog is currently at the vets.
We are having a run of man-made injuries to hedgehogs at the moment, and all of them could easily have been avoided with a few moments checking. Strimmer injury 1
This poor old chap is Bubbles. He came to us having been trapped in a chain link fence. He had lots of flystrike that needed to be picked off, which
This is Michela, she came to us on Friday with a large skin flap on her abdomen full of maggots. She had overturned a pot of oil and walked through
We are still quite busy with 130 hedgehogs in our care at the time of writing. Our volunteers are hard at work cleaning, feeding and caring for the hedgehogs everyday