Everybody has at some point in their lives confused something for something else. But it just takes us a few seconds to recognise that we are mistaken. Yet a kind-hearted animal lover cared for what she believed to be a sick baby hedgehog all night long, only to discover that it was really a hat bobble. The elderly woman acted quickly after seeing what she thought was an abandoned animal on the edge of a road in England.
The caring animal lover was worried because, despite being fed cat food, it hadn’t moved or defecated all night. After tending to the fluffy item for many hours, the stranger brought it to Lower Moss Wood Nature Reserve and Wildlife Hospital in Cheshire on Thursday morning. She waited for the veterinarian to return to the lobby and break the news, “It’s not a hedgehog – it is a hat bobble.”
Janet Kotze, the veterinarian on that shift, described the elderly woman to The Independent as “an older lady, maybe sixties or seventies, well-spoken and well-meaning.”
Dr Kotze added the old lady had reported seeing what seemed to be a hedgehog at the side of the road.
She said that the kind woman handled it in the wrong manner, just scooping it into a box containing some cat food and leaving it in a warm, dark spot. She didn’t look at it much since she didn’t “want to stress it out.”
When Dr Kotze opened the box, she recognised it wasn’t a hedgehog. She told the news source that it was “pretty obvious” to them, but they could also understand why she was mistaken.
The vet then walked back out and said, “I’m sorry, it’s just a bobble.”
To which the lady responded, “You’re joking! Oh my goodness, how did I do that?”
In her five years here, the 57-year-old said she had “never seen like it.”
According to Dr Kotze, the animal lover left the hospital with her box and bobble, looking embarrassed.
“She was very sweet. Bless her, her heart was in the right place,” Dr Kotze stated.
The hospital management said that the lady had made a mistake by not paying close enough attention to the hat ornamentation.
Over the weekend, the Lower Moss Wood Nature Reserve & Wildlife Hospital posted an entertaining story on Facebook, stating that the staff was moved by the woman’s excessively kind demeanour.
Dr Kotze urged other animal lovers to take the woman’s lead and save a genuine hedgehog if they come across one moving around during the day, as this is an indication that the animal is in danger.
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