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• Thinking she had spotted an abandoned baby hedgehog on the side of the road, an animal lover in England carefully gathered the creature into a box lined with newspaper and took it home, setting out some cat food and leaving it undisturbed overnight.
After realizing it hadn’t moved or eaten, she took the box to Lower Moss Wood Nature Reserve & Wildlife Hospital in Cheshire the next morning, where hospital manager Janet Kotze "realized ... it wasn't a hedgehog."
The fluffy, spiky, hedgehog-colored "creature" was actually the pom-pom from a winter beanie.
Because the elderly rescuer had kept her distance through the night, she hadn't noticed the ball's lack of eyes or ears.
But her compassion melted the staff members' hearts; Kotze said the woman "did absolutely the right thing -- aside from the fact that it wasn't a hedgehog." [NY Post, 3/27/24]