British veterinarians cured a bald hedgehog

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Today, humanity, of course, worries about much more serious problems than the baldness of hedgehogs. However, the painstaking work of veterinarians from the British Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital definitely deserves admiration. Experts managed to literally return the hedgehog to normal life, which suffered from a kind of baldness - the lack of needles.

The bald hedgehog, nicknamed Spud, was found last August. The animal was taken to Aylesbury Veterinary Hospital, as those who discovered it reasonably feared that it would not be able to survive without its protective cover.

An adult hedgehog wears on average 5,000 needles, which are thickened hollow hairs that have changed in the process of evolution. Doctors still do not understand the reason for the loss of the needles in Potato, it is possible that the hedgehog was already born this way.

Specialists knocked off their feet trying to help the animal. Potato was given a special massage daily with a moisturizing lotion for babies, as for some unknown reason his skin was constantly drying out. In March this year, the clinic's staff even asked for help from specialists in the field of alternative medicine.

And Potato was cured. And by no means with the help of acupuncture or the like. As veterinarians suspect, it was the tender love and care of the staff that helped to restore the hedgehog to its normal appearance.

To the delight of the hospital staff, Potato is almost completely overgrown with needles. Nevertheless, the problem has not been completely solved: the animal's skin is too dry, and specialists continue to massage it with lotions. But most importantly, according to one of the hospital staff, "he looks great and is almost ready to return to his natural habitat."