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We have rescued a hedgehog
May. 12th, 2018 09:24 pmIn tonight’s thrill-a-minute instalment of life in small-town back gardens!
I joke, but honestly this was stressful. A hedgehog had got itself stuck in the narrow space between our wall and our neighbours’ shed, tangled up immobile in an old football net. Our neighbours were out and plus have so much junk round that shed that there’d be no way in to get it anyway. Which left us, trying to free a hedgehog from a football net through a fence with a pair of kitchen scissors.
We snipped the net carefully and got it free after a while, and it barrel-rolled into an even smaller space, with - just visible - a section of net stuck tight round its neck. Argh. And the thing about upset hedgehogs is that they roll themselves up as tightly as possible into spiky little balls of Piss-Off-And-Leave-Me-Alone-ness, which does not lend itself well to extracting noose-like bits of football net. So I ended up lying on my front squished against a fence, face inches away from a furious hissing hedgehog, trying to roll it sideways far enough to reach the cord round its neck, fighting horrible visions of the hedgehog suffering a slow painful death and it all being my fault for not getting it out of the football net properly.
Anyway: success, in the end! A lot of luck and one last careful snip and it was free.
We left it some (non-fish) cat food and it was last seen unrolled and gobbling the food down.
I joke, but honestly this was stressful. A hedgehog had got itself stuck in the narrow space between our wall and our neighbours’ shed, tangled up immobile in an old football net. Our neighbours were out and plus have so much junk round that shed that there’d be no way in to get it anyway. Which left us, trying to free a hedgehog from a football net through a fence with a pair of kitchen scissors.
We snipped the net carefully and got it free after a while, and it barrel-rolled into an even smaller space, with - just visible - a section of net stuck tight round its neck. Argh. And the thing about upset hedgehogs is that they roll themselves up as tightly as possible into spiky little balls of Piss-Off-And-Leave-Me-Alone-ness, which does not lend itself well to extracting noose-like bits of football net. So I ended up lying on my front squished against a fence, face inches away from a furious hissing hedgehog, trying to roll it sideways far enough to reach the cord round its neck, fighting horrible visions of the hedgehog suffering a slow painful death and it all being my fault for not getting it out of the football net properly.
Anyway: success, in the end! A lot of luck and one last careful snip and it was free.
We left it some (non-fish) cat food and it was last seen unrolled and gobbling the food down.
