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Huge hedgehog goes on Atkins diet
An average adult hedgehog should weigh 600 to 700g (1.3 to 1.5lbs)
A hedgehog that weighs nearly four times as much as its fellow spiny mammals has been put on a diet.
The hedgehog, who was being looked after following an eye injury, has now been put on a high protein diet similar to the Atkins plan.
'Atkins diet' Head nurse Sara Cowen said: "At first we thought he had a condition called ballooning - where air gets trapped under the skin - but when he was brought in we realised he was just a huge fat hedgehog.
Staff at the Wildlife Aid centre said the average adult hedgehog should weigh between 600 and 700g (1.3 and 1.5lbs).
Huge hedgehog goes on Atkins diet
An average adult hedgehog should weigh 600 to 700g (1.3 to 1.5lbs)A hedgehog that weighs nearly four times as much as its fellow spiny mammals has been put on a diet.
The hedgehog, who was being looked after following an eye injury, has now been put on a high protein diet similar to the Atkins plan.
'Atkins diet' Head nurse Sara Cowen said: "At first we thought he had a condition called ballooning - where air gets trapped under the skin - but when he was brought in we realised he was just a huge fat hedgehog.
Staff at the Wildlife Aid centre said the average adult hedgehog should weigh between 600 and 700g (1.3 and 1.5lbs).
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