Baby hedgehogs rescued from box
Published: August 13, 2007
UK — REFUSE collectors came up against a prickly problem when they found a cardboard box left next to rubbish bags waiting for collection outside a house in Abingdon.
They opened the box and found two baby hedgehogs. The crew was collecting rubbish in Farm Road when John Gifford picked up a sealed cardboard box.
He was just about to throw it into the refuse lorry’s compactor when he noticed that something inside was moving, opened the box and found the hedgehogs.
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Realising they had only had a slim chance of survival the crew took the hedgehogs back to their Radley depot before rushing them to the St Tiggywinkles Hospital, in Haddenham, near Thame, where they are being nursed.
Staff said the pair had been born no more than a couple of days before they were found and Mr Gifford and his crew had saved their lives.
Council spokesman Gavin Walton said: “Hedgehogs search around rubbish for food but they were inside the box that had been sealed by tape. It looks as if the babies had been deliberately put in there, which is very sad.
“Fortunately, they were saved in the nick of time.”
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