George was found in the middle of the night lay on his back in the gutter in June 2008. On first inspection, we couldn't find any external injuries. He weighed in at 729 grams. However he did have runny eyes and nose and his breathing was laboured and 'wheezy'. I suspected that he had got pneumonia, brought on by lung worm. George was also heavily infested with ticks. We began treatment straight away. He was put on antibiotics and wormed and kept, as usual, on a heat pad. George wouldn't eat at first, so he had to be syringe fed throughout the day with a prescription food which is high in protein to get him back on his feet. He soon got his appetite back. When cleaning out the individual hedgehog pens, I temporarily put the hedgehogs in a clean box (as above). This is when I first noticed that George had a strange habit of spreading his legs wide open to have a poo! I had never seen this before. After 3 weeks of treatment he had put on 300 grams. Before he was released, I took George into Comberton Primary School and did a talk to the children on the welfare of hedgehogs.