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Repairing Him

So what exactly happened to the little hedgehog for him to have become this way? When Derek was just a tiny hoglet, he had suffered a traumatic injury. This ended up making him very conscious and nervous about wildlife surroundings. “He [weighed] less than 100 grams, and they [hedgehogs] have to be 600 grams to survive the winter,” Garner revealed in a later interview.

Over A Few Weeks

And so there was yet another problem for poor Derek the hedgehog. He had met with a rather large wound and moreover, it was infected. From what they could collect, the wounds that the hedgehog suffered from were from that of a bird attack. This was the blame for the hedgehog’s injury. Lynne had to treat this in the course of several weeks.

All They Could

“I’ve never seen this before in 25 years of looking after hedgehogs,” Garner also explained to the interviewers. The poor tiny hedgehog had actually gone through so much. And so now, Garner and her team had been trying their best to achieve something that was next to possible. All they wanted was for the hedgehog to be okay in the future.

A Solution, Finally

And on a hedgehog, there are usually about 5000 spines. So if this was the case for a normal hedgehog, Derek was certainly an odd one out. The poor fellow had already lost so much of his spines that he was basically bald. After searching for the best possible solution, Garner finally found an effective way to deal with the creature’s stress. She found a good way to bring its stress levels down to zero.

A Plea For Derek

And so, in order to get his stress levels to lower down, Derek was in need of a warm and heated area where he could be free to roam about. He also had to live in a place where there was no risk of bumping into predators. And in today’s world, there is no better place than social media to reach out to people. And so Lynne finally made a plea for Derek on Facebook.

The Post

The post read: “Derek has been diagnosed with stress-related alopecia. To reduce the stress, he needs a large heated area (an escape-proof heated greenhouse with no concrete floor would be ideal) where he could spend the next couple of months. Alternatively some form of treatment. Is there anyone who has such an enclosure or can suggest treatment? If you don’t, then please spread far and wide. We really want to get him 100% by March so we can release him back into the wild. THANKS.”