{"id":326645,"date":"2025-12-20T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326645\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:19:13","slug":"recovery-of-hedgehog-rescued-in-devon-made-our-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326645\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery of hedgehog rescued in Devon &#8216;made our Christmas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alan Pook and his partner Judy Thomson run the charity from their home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Thomson said: &#8220;When Aquarius arrived he was very cold, thin, dehydrated and wobbly. He weighed just 260g (0.6lbs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;Thanks to Joe and George&#8217;s quick thinking, he&#8217;s now doing really well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s doubled his weight to 540g (1.2lbs). He has a poorly hind leg that&#8217;s improving and some internal parasites we&#8217;re treating, so he&#8217;ll be staying with us over Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added Aquarius had reunited with Joe Martin and George Cane because they wanted to check on his recovery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve grown attached to the little chap and couldn&#8217;t believe how much he&#8217;d grown,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Aquarius might not have survived Christmas, but thanks to these two, he will be happily fattening himself up even more.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Pook and his partner Judy Thomson run the charity from their home. Ms Thomson said: &#8220;When Aquarius&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-326645","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\/326645","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=326645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}