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Wildlife
A Prickle of Hedgehogs in Hazelbury Bryan
By Jeanette Hampstead
We do enjoy naming hedgehogs - especially as they never know and forget them even quicker!
It makes my job easier to be able to identify the hedgehog by name and not just a number, although they get both on admission.
Buddy was admitted from
Sturminster Newton with a nasty infection that made it difficult for him to pass urine. He is feeling much better now and you can see he has found his appetite (video below)! He is building up the muscles he lost when he was ill.
Fortuna came from Fiddleford,
having had a very close call with a strimmer. Her prickles are beginning to grow back now, but she will have to stay with us until they do as they are her only form of protection. made a full recovery and is nearly ready to go home.
Like all the other casualties they will be returned back to the wild to live their lives.
Hedgehog Rescue of Hazelbury Bryan has booked a date, time and place for its 2021 fundraising event: Saturday, 26th June, 1pm to 5pm, at the Hazelbury Bryan Pavilion (opposite the Antelope).
Given the circumstances of the last year, organising an event has been a struggle – even deciding on a name! Eventually our committee voted for “Hazelbury Hedgehog Craft Fayre” as we
She hates being here, and is very grumpy.
Hufflepuff is from Hazelbury.
He is a beautiful young man who was sprayed with weedkiller. It made him very sick, giving him diarrhoea and vomiting. The first thing I did was give him a bath to remove as much weedkiller as we could. He has
Many hedgehogs are presented to rescue centres with ticks. Healthy hedgehogs (those arriving following an injury perhaps) will have a few whilst those hedgehogs that are sick will often have large numbers of ticks. Fortuna had a very close call with a strimmer - if you look closely you can see the prickles cropped short across her back.
have over 22 craft tables booked in for the afternoon. We are now
asking for local businesses to donate raffle prizes so we can sell tickets on the day.
Do go and follow the Rescue’s Facebook page - where you are not only kept up to date with news, but upon which there is also a gratuitous supply of cute hedgehog videos. And you can donate direct to the Hedghog Rescue here.
