Today in Hamilton it was foggy, bleak and just downright miserable and cold. In the afternoon I had to run a quick errand to drop some food and medication off to one of the shelter's fosterers and as I headed over to the fosterer's place, I was driving along one of the very busy road which feeds my area of town and what should I spot but a little Hedgehog stumbling along the grass verge beside the road. I couldn't stop as it wasn't safe in such busy traffic and my heart just broke as I watch the hog in my rear vision mirror as we drove away.
As I headed back home an hour later I decided I just had to go and see if I could find the hog so I detoured and looped back around past where I had seen it. Amazingly it was still there, frantically searching for food and now perilously close to the road. I slowed down - blocking the traffic lol, before I managed to safely pull off the road and up over the curb. Grabbing a blanket from the car (I always carry an emergency kit in the car for exactly this eventuality) I ran back to the hog and scooped it up. It was immediately apparent that it was in a pretty bad way.
As soon as I got her home, I set LuLu up in a Hogspital box with a heatpad and left her to warm up. A few hours later I got her up to see what we had. She was curled loosely on her side on the heatpad and seemed to be hugely relieved to be warm. She weighs 571gms, her mange is incredibly thick, she has splits and cracks and is blind due to the crust. I couldn't find any fly strike or maggots so hopefully we've dodged that particular bullet.
I popped some soothing eye drops into her eyes, gave her an IvomecSuper jab to kill the mange mites and a warm oil treatment to start softening the crust and soothing the intense itching caused by the mites. She's now tucked up back in her heated Hogspital box with some electrolytes and a dish of AD/BabyDog soup which hopefully she will tuck into overnight.
By tomorrow, hopefully she will have done a nice poo for me to check under the microscope and we will be able to see what treasures/parasites are lurking within.
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| LuLu just after I had picked her up |
As soon as I got her home, I set LuLu up in a Hogspital box with a heatpad and left her to warm up. A few hours later I got her up to see what we had. She was curled loosely on her side on the heatpad and seemed to be hugely relieved to be warm. She weighs 571gms, her mange is incredibly thick, she has splits and cracks and is blind due to the crust. I couldn't find any fly strike or maggots so hopefully we've dodged that particular bullet.
I popped some soothing eye drops into her eyes, gave her an IvomecSuper jab to kill the mange mites and a warm oil treatment to start softening the crust and soothing the intense itching caused by the mites. She's now tucked up back in her heated Hogspital box with some electrolytes and a dish of AD/BabyDog soup which hopefully she will tuck into overnight.
By tomorrow, hopefully she will have done a nice poo for me to check under the microscope and we will be able to see what treasures/parasites are lurking within.
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