“To think that someone could do that to a poor little animal,” Anita Broadhead, who works at the Cawthorne Hedgehog Sanctuary, told BuzzFeed News.
A hedgehog was rescued by a sanctuary after he was found with his spines cut off in the kitchen of a University of Sheffield hall of residence.
Cawthorne Hedgehog Rescue
Broadhead told BuzzFeed News that the animal was found on Saturday morning by a university caretaker who saw the little hedgehog running towards him.
Frank the hedgehog – or Frankie, as he is also called – was a "in a right state" when he first arrived at their sanctuary, Broadhead said.
"When we first saw him we burst into tears, to think that someone could do that to a poor little animal."
Broadhead said she couldn't be sure of what was used to chop Frank's spines: "All we know is that the sharp ends of his spines had been cut off and he was dehydrated."
Cawthorne Hedgehog Rescue
The couple also noticed that Frank had "a bad case of ringworm", which caused him to be bald in places. "Ringworm is highly contagious, so if anybody has been touching him with their bare hands it's quite likely that they'll catch it," she added.
Broadhead and her husband reported the incident to the RSPCA and took Frank to see a vet for a scan as they were afraid that he might have also been "kicked around like a football". "But luckily the scan showed that he has no broken bones," she said.
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