lucy devine
03-08-11, 12:00
Heya,
This may sound so stupid but I'm feeling really anxious over it and I can't stop thinking about it...
I've just got back from taking my dogs out onto the park on my own...we were happily walking round when i came accross a hedgehog laying in the grass...I am an absolute animal lover and the hedgehog looked ill/ most likely dead but I couldn't know for certain...I managed to get two of my dogs on the lead but one of them went and almost touched the hedgehog with his nose, I am really worried as I know hedgehogs carry diseases and fleas and I am worried now that my dog will have it...when i came home, I cleaned his head with a dog cleaning wipe but I'm worried that isn't enough and that he will have some sort of disease now, will he be ok? also, I didn't want to touch the hedgehog for the reason of it carrying disease and such so i was unable to check whether it was still alive...it looked dead and had blue bottle flies on it but there may of been a slight possibility that it was alive?? I didn't know what to do so I went looking for help and found another dog walker...they said that the hedgehog was probably dead and that I wasn't to touch it and just leave it...I've come home really upset as I feel like I haven't done enough for the hedgehog and if it was still alive, I may of just left it in the field to die...does this mean I am a really bad person?
I feel terrible and can't stop thinking about it :/ I know this may seem stupid to some but it really is worrying me
please reply
lucy
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This may sound so stupid but I'm feeling really anxious over it and I can't stop thinking about it...
I've just got back from taking my dogs out onto the park on my own...we were happily walking round when i came accross a hedgehog laying in the grass...I am an absolute animal lover and the hedgehog looked ill/ most likely dead but I couldn't know for certain...I managed to get two of my dogs on the lead but one of them went and almost touched the hedgehog with his nose, I am really worried as I know hedgehogs carry diseases and fleas and I am worried now that my dog will have it...when i came home, I cleaned his head with a dog cleaning wipe but I'm worried that isn't enough and that he will have some sort of disease now, will he be ok? also, I didn't want to touch the hedgehog for the reason of it carrying disease and such so i was unable to check whether it was still alive...it looked dead and had blue bottle flies on it but there may of been a slight possibility that it was alive?? I didn't know what to do so I went looking for help and found another dog walker...they said that the hedgehog was probably dead and that I wasn't to touch it and just leave it...I've come home really upset as I feel like I haven't done enough for the hedgehog and if it was still alive, I may of just left it in the field to die...does this mean I am a really bad person?
I feel terrible and can't stop thinking about it :/ I know this may seem stupid to some but it really is worrying me
please reply
lucy
xx