A bald hedgehog has been saved by an animal charity after it was found with no spikes.
Vets at the charity ‘Prickles in a Pickle’ discovered Ollie had ringworm and a bacterial infection which caused most of the prickles to fall out.
As a result, the animal’s skin had crusted over, which caused bleeding around his mouth, and very few prickles remained.
Ringworm and other infections and parasites haven’t been killed off yet by the winter frost as would typically happen around this time of the year due to the warmer weather in the UK in recent months.
The creature has had a very slow
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