Hogs
Strimmers & garden machinery
As anticipated we had several strimmer injured hedgehogs over the bank holiday weekend. Sadly, two of which had to be taken immediately to the emergency
7 April, 2026
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As anticipated we had several strimmer injured hedgehogs over the bank holiday weekend. Sadly, two of which had to be taken immediately to the emergency
Strimmer casualty number 4 of today, a little 301g juvenile male. Wound was full of maggots and infection which stank to high heaven.
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
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
This big chap is Saturn who came in 3 weeks ago having been badly strimmed. His wounds are healing but he still has quite a
This 478g male hog was brought in earlier today with a massively infected strimmer wound to his head. He stank of infection and his head
Today we said a fond farewell to a special lady who has been with us for several months – Layla. She originally came to us
This is one of our recent intakes. She is an adult and her name is Kezia. She came to us recently from a veterinary practice
This adult female hog was brought to us last night after the finder noticed she was bleeding. On examination, we found that most of the