Story of an Hedgehog

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Having seen the recent question about Hedgehogs, i thought i would share this lovely story with you all,, it was November 1993, and in the large dillapidated shed i had a huge heap of garden waste from my jobs, i decided to move the rubbish out of the shed, it had been there for aprox two weeks, so i grabbed the pitchfork and started clearing the rubish, i noticed a little pink thing whoich i thought was a baby mouse, but to my amazement was a young hedgehog,it was aprox two days old, was blind and the spines were white and just starting to form, anyway, i went through all the rubbish very carefully, the mother was ok and in total i found seven baby hedgehogs, i put the heap back and made a small nest put the mother in with the young and left alone, next day they were all gone, now the mother hedgehog would normally abandon her young or even eat them in these circumstances, so i feared the worst, so the next night i put some water out and a saucer of catfood in the shed and waited, she appeared from under the old pallet flooring to feed, each night she would come out, between 6 and 8 after a week and half i watched and she came out as usual followed by, yes all seven little hedge hogs, this continued and i watched them bulk up, it was such a joy watching, on one morning i went down the garden and in the pond was one of the young barely alive, i had a couple of planks in the pond if this werte to happen but the young one just diddent find them, so i fished it out and drove to the vets, i had it in a box it looked really grim and thought it would be dead by the time i arrived at the vets, anyhow i left it with them and two days later i recieved a call to say he was fine and he had been deflead and some ticks had been removed, so i brought him back and let him go in the old shed, off he scurried under the pallets, i obseved them for a further week and then nothing, so i presume they hibernated, but weather the young survived i dont know, it was the first week in december not sure they reached the correct weight for hibernation, hope you enjoyed this little story.

• 22 Aug, 2011
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