Oscar was our first rescue in 2008. He was found in April on the main road outside King Charles high school in Kidderminster. On inspection, he couldn't walk on his left back leg. He was dragging his foot and he was heavily infested with ticks.  After a visit to the vets, where he was prescribed an anti-inflammatory drug, we confined him for a few days and treated him for his ticks. We carefully removed over 45 of them. Oscar was then put into one of our outside hutches and began to improve. After 10 days he had full use of his leg and he was in a lot better condition (as you can see in the last two pictures above).We released him shortly after. Had he been left to fend for himself, his leg would have become grazed and infected from being  constantly dragged. It would have been a very different outcome for him.