Animals are usually smarter than we give them credit for, but sometimes they need a little help, too. As any pet owner can tell you, the combination of a small opening and a pudgy animal sometimes leads to a sticky situation. One lucky hedgehog is lucky to have escaped intact after getting stuck in a hole in a wall in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. It took Inspector Jason Finch an hour of chipping away at the wall to free the hedgehog from the wall, but fortunately he’s okay.
It looks as though he was stuck trying to get in, rather than get out. I imagine someone was looking to chuck him at offending parties, so he wisely turned tail and ran as fast as his little stubby legs could carry him. Unfortunately for him, hedgehogs aren’t the sleekest animal in the world, so he got a little stuck. (My cat gets stuck places all the time for the same belly-based reason.)
Tags: nature, animals, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, hedgehog, hedgehog stuck in wall, animal rescues