{"id":218719,"date":"2025-12-30T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/218719\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:21:10","slug":"look-hedgehog-rescued-from-underground-storm-tank-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/218719\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Hedgehog rescued from underground storm tank in England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec. 29 (UPI) — A pair of workers for Britain’s South West Water were conducting a site inspection at an underground storm tank and ended up coming to the rescue of a stranded hedgehog.<\/p>\n

Joe Martin and George Cane made the discovery while inspecting the tank in Blackawton, near Dartmouth.\n<\/p>\n

“I was walking the site as part of routine checks when I spotted a small ball of spikes down in the tank. Thankfully the storm tank was empty despite the recent rain,” Martin said in a news release<\/a>. “We improvised with a telescopic sampling pole, a bucket and a hoe to scoop him to safety.”<\/p>\n

The duo put the hedgehog into a cardboard box with some dry vegetation and drove him to the Prickles in a Pickle rescue in Stoke Fleming.\n<\/p>\n

Judy, co-founder of Prickles in a Pickle, said the hedgehog, now named Aquarius, is gaining weight nicely, but will remain in the rescue’s care for a time while he undergoes treatment for internal parasites.\n<\/p>\n

She said he will eventually be returned to a location near the water tank, which has now been reinforced to prevent any other small animals from gaining unauthorized entry.<\/p>\n

“It’s made our Christmas knowing Aquarius is on the mend,” Martin said. “He’s a tough little character, but let’s hope he’s less adventurous in the future!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 29 (UPI) — A pair of workers for Britain’s South West Water were conducting a site inspection…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[264,1655,61,60,1653,82,1654,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-218719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-odd","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-weird","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}