Beware Of Hedgehogs

[orestes]

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Was taking my dogs out to their bed tonite and one of them saw a hedgehog, this dog has lifted one up before...

With all the excitement and the rest of the dogs running around, with my mum and I screaming as the dog tried to get in the house with it...anyway we finally got her to let it go and the all the dogs inside.

The dog was foaming at the mouth and the blood was everywhere and she was covered in pines, which are really jaggy, more than I expected.

The question I want to ask is, is that poison that made the dog foam at the mouth?

Is there any effects say a while after?

Anyway all is well...we got all the pines out of her mouth and cleaned her up...dogs all got to bed.

 

[doris]

never heard of a poisonous hedgehog - but don't know what it's been walking through before it got picked up!

hope she's ok - and the hedgehog too :thumbsup:

 

[Seraphina]

When living in Europe we had garden full of hedgehogs. I played with them as a child. Their spines are not poisonous, and not jagged. The spines are very smooth, round in cross section, and they would make the dog bleed if he bit on the creature. Maybe the foaming was just from excitement?

 

[~elizabeth~]

I agree with Lida, the foam was just from the excitement; ours foams if he's been chasing rabbits or racing sometimes. Keep an eye on her just in case one of the wounds gets infected .

We don't have many round here, as the badgers have eaten them all :x but ours saw his first one a few weeks back and made a sudden lunge for it; fortunately I have quick reactions and stopped him just in time, otherwise he's have got a nasty spikey surprise as well >_<

 

[Trish]

definatley excitement i would say.

we got our pup last sunday and i was shocked to see phoebe my 2 year old whippet,was drooling froth,i had not seen this before either and boy was she excited :lol:

i would be more worried about your dog getting fleas from the hedgehog as they are usually covered in them.

 

[playawhile]

Hi!

One of my whippet bitches actually turned the hedgehog upside-down and killed them by biting in the softer parts....

Henrik Härling

 

[~elizabeth~]

One of my whippet bitches actually turned the hedgehog upside-down and killed them by biting in the softer parts....

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That's how the badgers and foxes do it - all that's left are little upside-down, hollowed out shells :x

 

[dessie]

From personal experience I can categorically say the foaming is caused by excitement or frenzy!!!

It is Rupert's lifelong ambition to peel a hedgehog. We have a family of them that live under the ESS's kennel and Daddy Hedgepig is the biggest one I have ever seen, the size of a football almost. Rupert regularly picks him and the others up and has suffered no ill effects from doing so whatsoever, other than earache from me bawling at him ............ although I try to tone it down at 2.30 in the morning!!!!

Luckily I have always been around when Rupert has picked them up so he has not fulfilled his ambition ..........................................yet! (w00t)

 

[orestes]

Thought it was a case of excitement.

She was fine more or less as soon as it happened last night and is fine today, the hedgehog came off the worst, it died.

She had just killed a frog just before she saw the hedghog. She will kill anything that moves, the racing has done that to her.