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Andy initially thought he was dealing with a baby hog – but as it came to the surface he realised it was in fact a chunky adult male. <\/p>\n

An inspection revealed he weighed 982g (2lbs 2.3oz) and also had a personal hygiene problem. <\/p>\n

“When I brought him up to the surface I realised it was actually a big adult hog – and my goodness did he smell bad,” explained Andy. <\/p>\n

“He was covered in 37 ticks which we removed and he was exhausted but we warmed him up and gave him food and fluids.<\/p>\n

“He had a really good night and is running about the rescue centre today. <\/p>\n

“We don’t think he is hurt but he will now be monitored for post restriction injuries which can take seven days to develop.”<\/p>\n

The couple started the charity three years ago after realising there was no similar service in the area. <\/p>\n

They now have 40 volunteer “hog ambulance drivers” who can collect an animal in need from anywhere in Fife, Edinburgh, the Lothians and as far as the Borders.<\/p>\n

Hedgehog awareness week will run from 3-9 of May and highlights issues that are threatening the species. , external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy initially thought he was dealing with a baby hog – but as it came to the surface…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-557500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557500","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=557500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}