‘Hedgehogs are not pets’: Too many ending up in shelters

The shelter for birds and wildlife (VOC) in Merelbeke has already taken in a thousand hedgehogs this year, on pace to exceed last year’s numbers by a significant margin. “Hedgehogs are not pets,” Nick De Meulemeester, who is in charge of the shelter, told De Standaard. De Meulemeester urged the public not to feed the […]

Source: The Brussels Times