heart wrenching pics.....

The injuries we see inflicted by strimmers on hedgehogs are horrific. Most casualties do not survive and those that do suffer more pain than you can imagine. These injuries were caused by a careless gardener using a strimmer. By the time she was rescued, gangrene had already set in and the only option was euthanasia.

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This is the result of a strimmer injury inflicted on a hedgehog who was pregnant at the time. Her injuries were so severe she did not survive, and neither did the three babies that she aborted. It only takes a few seconds to check long grass first before strimming. It might save a life – or in this particularly sad case, it would have saved four.

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This is what happens when a hedgehog gets caught up in netting and is unable to escape. This was heart-breaking to see as she was still alive when we rescued her. Her injuries were so severe the only option was euthanasia.

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A typical broken and infected leg.

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This female hedgehog had a heavy tick burden and was severely anaemic and dehydrated. We pulled over 300 ticks off her.

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This is ‘Tufty’ who was suffering from mites / ringworm. It took many weeks of treatment to restore his lost fur and spines.

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This is what happens with carelessly discarded litter. The hedgehog puts his head inside but his spines prevent him from backing out. Hedgehogs have been known to suffocate or starve to death because of this.

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This is a tiny two week old baby with a fractured back leg. She was so small that we had to improvise and make a splint out of cotton buds and sticky tape to immobilise her leg!

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This hedgehog had a huge infected head wound

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Aww. very distressing pics, so sad xx

Awwww so sad x

Oh no....

Happier that those who could be saved, were.

xoxox

Really good post Tayer should make people aware of some of the dangers of leaving their litter out .x

tha 5th pic down upsets me.....

So so sad!!!

heartbreaking pictures and stories, but sending a powerful message to raise awareness xxxx

Good Post Tayer - I had to go and rescue a wildie that had crawled into a bag of rubbish that had been left outside and then put into the wheelie bin with the hedgehog still inside and more shockingly the person was just going to leave the hoggie in the bin as he wouldn't pick the poor thing out to release .

I think they are all upsetting but hopefully they will raise some awareness to people ... to be a little more careful with their rubbish .x