As we enter yet another week of drought conditions please, I beg you, put out water for the animals.
Our nocturnal wildlife is dying of thirst.
A terrible, painful way to die.
And you hold the solution, the cure.
A turn of the tap will save a life.🚰
So get out your casserole pot lids, your flan dishes, your old baking trays - anything that is shallow and wide and not easily tipped.
It doesn't matter what it looks like, this is an emergency.
Put them out at dusk, front and back garden.
Your local charity shop will have loads of suitable water dishes - so with one simple act of kindness you can benefit so many.🥰
Keep them clean.
Keep them full.
Keep them coming.
Please share this to save a life today.
@HedgehogCabin@MissJane_M_ Dear Pauly, my previous post about COMMUNITY NOTES might not have reached you. You might consider joining the community on X to be able to add such notes to posts you deemed potentially harmful and dangerous for hedgehogs without tirelessly replying to these posts.
Please stop giving deviants the oxygen of attention.
When perverts are cruel to animals; paint them, injure them, etc, it's often for attention.
It's bad enough their evil acts get the desired response and make the news, but if you retweet that, quote it, etc, you make their day.
They love it.
They love the attention, and are often encouraged to commit even more deviant atrocities.
And they attract copycats.
Some people would literally do anything for likes.
Plus there are monsters who deliberately harm animals, or put them in danger so they can 'rescue them' as a living - an engagement farm. The more views and retweets/quotes they get, the more money they make.
So please don't share stories of animal cruelties.
It does the victim no good at all, and can cause an awful lot of harm.
And please never spread this 'news' to rescues.
We see enough cruelty and heartbreak close up and personal. It's exhausting, soul-destroying, and it's hard enough to stay strong for our patients - those we can help.
We don't want to see those we can't.
@HedgehogCabin@Wow_Flutter Does it mean, Pauly, that when a hedgehog rescue looks for safe gardens for hogs they have take care of and provide necessary treatments, these gardens should be very close to the rescue? And what about the hoglets? It's the same? Thank you very much 🙏❤️
@HedgehogCabin@c22cuk Dear Pauly, you might consider joining the community for adding community notes to posts that could potentially harm hedgehogs. From you, an award winner and respected rescue, it would be a way to fight the myths and spread the world. I truly admire your work!
Varování - citlivý obsah, veterinární ošetření zraněného 🦔 (neupravené foto v komentářích)
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🇨🇿Prosím vždy se ujistěte, že při sečení trávy nevezmete život - zkontrolujte prostor.
🇬🇧Please always check the area before mowing so you don't cut a hedgehog.
Děkujeme Veterina Slušovice. Ježek přežije. Děkujeme všem, kteří nás podporují.
#erinaceus #hedgehog #wildlife #wildliferescue #ježek
@HedgehogCabin And to cheer you up here are some of our daily visitors enjoying Iams kitten biscuits and fresh water. I clean it every morning and carefully even check their 💩 This spring I've started transforming the garden in a hogs' paradise and just recently bought 3 little residences 😊
@HedgehogCabin Thank you so much, Pauly. It's the local rescue here for all wildlife feeding small young hedgehogs mealworms. I'll bring the kitten biscuits and try to suggest this as more appropriate food recommended by rescues specialized only on hedgehogs. Hope they accept it. Won't push it
Fed up?
Heat getting to you?
Dreading work tomorrow?
Then grab a drink, take a seat, relax and watch 10 minutes of nothing special, just the life of a precious little family safe and content, growing and learning.
I guarantee you will feel better. ❤️
@torture_lesson Skvělé, že se snažíte šířit informace, jak se postarat o ježka, který potřebuje pomoc ❤️ Jen opravím, že do krabice je třeba dát láhev s teplou vodou a umístit ji na světlé místo. Ježci v nouzi vylézají na 🌞 protože jako oslabení vyhledávají teplo. Credit @HedgehogCabin
@HedgehogCabin Thank you very much, Pauly. I was asking because of the rescue here where I plan to bring the kitten biscuits. They have hoglets in about the same age and for this reason I asked before also about some wet food for them as they still might not have teeth yet. Thank you ❤️
@CarlBovisNature Although I don't share your view that you did nothing wrong, I accept your right to it. I just recall Ann Widdecombe "Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offence, or from insult, or from hurt feelings. It is an occupational hazard of living in society.."
You're absolutely right, Julie. This is an emaciated, dying hedgehog.
And what's heartbreaking is I have already advised Carl of this hedgehog's serious illness, twice, but he said he knew best and carried on posting images and video of this poor dying creature, instead of getting him the help he so desperately needs.
Carl's previous photos of how this poor sick hog was attracting ticks was a big red flag, which I explained, and he told me I was wrong and carried on using the hedgehog as a prop.
This poor hedgehog is extremely sick and *because of this sickness* has deteriorated and has become emaciated.
He's not thin because he is starving (although he will constantly be feeling the pain of extreme hunger), it's because he is sick with internal parasites (most likely roundworm and lungworm, maybe fluke too).
And most tragically, animals with severe internal parasite burdens suffer dehydration because the worms damage the intestinal lining.
The resulting inflammation prevents the gut from reabsorbing water, and triggers systemic anorexia, severely reducing the animal's voluntary water intake.
So no matter what he eats, he will never absorb nourishment and will continue to die.
See that clear demarcation between head and body, and how you can see his shoulders, elbow and hips? That should never be seen - a healthy hedgehog is rounded, covered in a natural thick layer of fat, with no underlying structure visable.
See how his coat is spikey and uneven? That's neurological decline from sickness and malnourishment. Weakness prevents him from flexing the muscles required to keep his spines aligned.
A healthy hedgehog pulls his spines into a tight, uniform dome for defense.
But worst of all - See how the spines on his flanks are laying flat?
That's evidence of extreme dehydration.
This will prove fatal, because as he eats now, his body will have to divert whatever remaining moisture it has toward the stomach to digest the food, causing his vital organs to shut down.
He'll be in tremendous pain, but hedgehog are stoic, and as prey they hide any weakness.