Ready for a Walk On the a Wild Side ; Mike Chapple Meets the Stray and Orphan Hedgehogs Who Are Looking for a Chance to Get Back to Nature

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GO ON ...give a hog a home.That's the call this spring as 11 hand- reared baby hedgehogs -or hog lets -prepare to face a big bad world outside the protective womb of Freshfields Animal Rescue Centre in Ince Blundell.

Full-time worker LynGawith has been their "mum" since last summer when they were brought in -not as a collective bristle -but in dribs and drabs after being found by concerned members of the public.

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Ready for a Walk On the a Wild Side ; Mike Chapple Meets the Stray and Orphan Hedgehogs Who Are Looking for a Chance to Get Back to Nature

"As they weighed less than 600 grams they were too young to hibernate so we'vehad to feed them up on cat and dog food and plenty of water," says Lynfrom Crosby,immediately dismissing that old wives' tale a...

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