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This post is mainly to help other rescues, but I know a lot of you will be interested as well. This sweet boy is Merlin. Merlin self admitted, but aside from his scabby nose from a bit of ringworm, he appeared fine. But I knew by his behaviour that he was sick. Healthy hedgehogs don't self admit to a hospital pen. Especially boys at this time of year - they are out chasing girls.🥰 I tested his poo in the lodge, where he booked himself into an open pen, and it was clear. I admitted him into hospital where he stayed overnight and left me 6 lovely poo samples. Every single one was clear. And yet his behaviour, his aggitation, the way he dug the corners of the pen, even his smell, told me through years of experience that he was sick. So I started treatment anyway. And as his condition improved, as he became hydrated and nourished, and the first antiparasitic administered, just like magic the confirmation appeared! A diagnosis needs to be made on observed behaviour and history (either your own or of the finders); the poo sample is *confirmation of the diagnosis*. So a hedgehog making unhealthy breathing sounds but producing clear poo samples is still unhealthy. You can't always rely on a sick hedgehog to produce parasite larvae or eggs in their poo sample, for several reasons, but the main reason is: Parasites, like all living organisms, have to preserve energy in order to stay alive and thrive. So when they find themselves in a hostile environment - a host who has become starving and dehydrated - they reduce their energy expenditure by temporarily shutting down systems that are not neccessary for life, like reproduction. They stop laying eggs and go into a sort of stasis, until conditions become welcoming again. Also of course, parasites don't constantly churn out eggs. They have a reproduction cycle. So not every sample will contain eggs. It's so frustrating when people contact me saying they have been sent home with a hedgehog who is clearly in audible respiratory distress, because the poo sample the rescue took was clear. As for sweet Merlin - at first it was a trickle; his poo showed just a few parasites, so microscope samples had to be very carefully scrutinised. But very quickly it became apparent that this poor boy was in fact full of deadly fluke, lungworm, and roundworm. He's only on day 3 of his treatment, so is still very sick, but clever Merlin got himself the help he needed just in time.

HE KNEW THE DOSSIER WAS FAKE. WEEKS LATER HE WAS DEAD IN A FIELD Dr David Kelly was Britain's foremost weapons inspector. He spent years inspecting Iraqi facilities, earned a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and knew more about Saddam's arsenal than almost anyone in government. In 2002, Tony Blair's government published a dossier claiming Iraq could deploy chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes. Britain went to war on the back of it. No weapons were ever found. Kelly knew the dossier was rubbish. He said so, quietly, to a @BBC journalist. That conversation ended his career, his privacy, and ultimately his life. The MOD carefully allowed his name to leak to the press as the BBC's source. He was then hauled before parliamentary committees, stripped apart by his own employer, and thrown to a media frenzy he never asked for. Two days after giving evidence to MPs, the 59-year-old was found dead in woodland near his Oxfordshire home. Instead of a proper inquest, Tony Blair asked Lord Hutton to run a private inquiry. Hutton concluded suicide. The inquest was opened, then suspended, and never resumed. Eight senior legal and medical figures, including a coroner, later wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was unsafe. They argued the wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not have caused sufficient blood loss to kill a healthy person. There were no fingerprints on the knife found beside his body, even though he was not wearing gloves. In 2011, Attorney General Dominic Grieve rejected all calls for a new inquest. He said the Hutton Inquiry was "tantamount to an inquest" and that further investigation would be dismissed by judges with irritation. A man challenged the government's justification for a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly destroyed, died in mysterious circumstances, never got a proper inquest, and the people who sent him into that media storm faced no consequences whatsoever. Tony Blair became a Middle East Peace Envoy the following year. You genuinely could not make it up. Sources: @BBCNews, openDemocracy, Hansard, @thetimes | Hutton Report

ALL I CAN HEAR IS MACHINERY!! So many are out in their gardens tidying it up. Lives will be lost as not everyone knows to check long grass before cutting it. DON'T cut right to the edge of the grass, hedge or border as hedgehogs may be resting there. Please spread the word x

2 new arrivals, male and a female...one with awful poo at night and one out in the sun. Samples taken and treatment started. They both need a name 😊#hedgehogs

So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil

MEMO to British mainstream media: THIS abomination BELOW should be front page news and top of the bulletins and not a foolish, stupid, reckless share of a tweet

@owenjonesjourno I will be ordering a copy. Keep doing what you're doing, Owen.

Big announcement! My new book - The Fall of the West - is out for pre-order now. I travelled from Baghdad to the Rust Belt to trace how Western power created the crises now engulfing it. Very excited to tell you more about it...

@elonmusk Predictable.

True

Sickens me to the core. Surely people will begin to see what we are doing to the creatures we share this planet with. For your health, your empathy and your conscience, stop killing them. @AnimalsViva

This is Lord Rothermere the owner of the Daily Mail. He lives in a massive mansion in the English countryside, but he pays no tax here because he identifies as French. While the Daily Mail is registered in Bermuda and pays no tax anywhere. That is his ‘Patriotism’.

GAME OF THRONES STAR LIAM CUNNINGHAM DROPS TRUTH BOMB: “Doing business with Israel is a PERMISSION SLIP for GENOCIDE!” “There is NO middle ground. You either stand with Palestine… or you stand with Genocide... SANCTION ISRAEL NOW!” @liamcunningham1

@Parody_PM The Frog and Bollock.

Name this traditional English pub.

A tiny wooden personalized page holder that keeps your book open and your hands relaxed. No more cramps, no more losing your place.

@DreyfusJames Terrific actor.

I’m dedicating this entire week to watching one of my favourite actors ever, Ian Richardson. Was lucky enough to briefly meet him once after his performance in “The Creeper”. Could play anything, but was also one of our most subtly gifted comedic actors.

Renowned Director Ken Loach Delivers Powerful Words at Cannes on Israel's Genocide in Gaza "The worst thing is not the violence of the bad, it is the silence of the good.

It's going to be hot hot hot 🔥 for at least the next week....please but out life saving water for all our wildlife. Thank you #hedgehogs

@elonmusk I used to read about enablers like you in school. They helped usher in the Nazis. The rest, as the expressions goes, is history. Shame on you.

Why have they said nothing about the murder, aided by the police, of this innocent English boy?

Yes this poor girl is near death, she's emaciated and very sick. The researchers and the BBC are completely ignorant of this fact, of course. An ironic posterchild. They claim using AI will help them achieve insights into the hedgehog's decline, when this photo is perfect evidence of what every *real* hedgehog expert already knows. See that clear demarcation between head and body? That should never be seen - a healthy hedgehog is rounded, with no underlying structure visable. She's emaciated, starving. See how her coat is spikey and uneven? That's neurological decline from sickness and malnourishment. Weakness prevents her from flexing the muscles required to keep her spines aligned. A healthy hedgehog pulls her spines into a tight, uniform dome for defense. (something they are cruelly prevented from doing when a transmitter has been superglued to them). See how the spines on her flanks are laying flat? That's evidence of extreme dehydration. This will prove fatal, because if she eats now, her body will have to divert whatever remaining moisture it has toward the stomach to digest the food, causing her vital organs to shut down. THIS IS WHAT THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW. That if they see a hedgehog out in the day she is hypothermic, extremely sick, and needs urgent treatment from a rescue (never a vet). And that they must control their natural impulse to offer food, as that would be deadly. That they need to supply *contact warmth*. That we need to allow natural food to grow in our gardens, and provide a safe source of water. If even a fraction of the money spent on PR for this vanity scheme were spent on a public education campaign, we could halt, maybe even reverse the hedgehog's decline.

@sciencegirl Telephone Box libraries are a wonderful British institution 🇬🇧 Especially when things like this happen...