{"id":259078,"date":"2025-11-12T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259078\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:50:10","slug":"hedgehog-has-surgery-after-getting-caught-in-zip-tie-in-norfolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259078\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedgehog has surgery after getting caught in zip tie in Norfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The mammal was found with the cable tied tightly around its upper torso.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He was taken to RSPCA East Winch Wildlife Centre and only weighed around 250g.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The hedgehog had sores under his armpits (Image: RSPCA East Winch)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Shaun the hedgehog found himself with sores under his armpits as a result of the zip tie, which he was eventually freed from.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesman for the wildlife centre confirmed that Shaun also needed surgery, saying: &#8220;He was initially examined, released from the zip tie and put on pain relief medication.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We had noticed he was lame and he also had spines which were growing in the wrong direction due to where the zip tie was.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25615353.guard-vessel-runs-aground-sandbank-off-suffolk-coast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Converted fishing boat stranded on sandbank sparks emergency response<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Once he was stronger, he underwent a general anaesthetic and we had to surgically extract 13 trapped spines.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He is doing well and has progressed to the next stage of rehab.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The hedgehog remains in the care of RSPCA East Winch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mammal was found with the cable tied tightly around its upper torso. He was taken to RSPCA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-259078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}