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Baby hedgehog saved from the cold after skin condition leaves him with NO spikes
Pumpkin the baby hedgehog wouldn't be able to defend himself in the wild and was unlikely to have survived the coming months
Poorly Pumpkin the baby hedgehog faced a real chill this winter - after a skin condition left him completely bald with no spikes.
The youngster would be unable to defend itself in the wild and was unlikely to have survived the coming months.
But luckily a member of the public spotted the creature and alerted Prickles Hedgehog Rescue Centre in Cheddar, Somerset.
Pumpkin will have to spend the winter in a heated room inside a fleece to keep him warm.
But centre owner Jules Bishop believes his spines will eventually grow back.
She said: 'He is looking very different to what you would normally expect from a hedgehog, he looks almost prehistoric.
'He just looks very, very odd, he's become a bit of a favourite among staff because of it and because the condition is quite extreme and we know he'll be here for a while.
'He is very sweet, it is quite strange handling him without his spikes, we get around 600 hogs a year so to get one like this is very strange.
'I've never experienced anything like this before at all.'
Prickles were first alerted to Pumpkin's plight a week ago when a concerned member of the public spotted him struggling to walk in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
He was immediately picked up by a member of staff and taken back to the centre, where he was given antibiotics to deal with his inflammation.
But soon after he began to shed his fur and prickles and the shivering mammal was confined to a specialist 'hogpsital'.
He is now bouncing back from the illness, and although still bald, it is hoped by spring he will be his spiky once more.
Jules added: 'When he came in his legs were all inflamed with an infection but over the course of his time with us he lost his fur and his spikes.
'I think the infection must have got into his follicles and caused it, but I'm fairly confident they will grow back in time.
'He will be with us for the duration of the winter and into next year as he hopefully begins to grow everything back.’
