My friend Katie shared a picture on Facebook yesterday that reminded me of this story, so you can blame her! 😉
We must start this story by explaining that the lady involved was elderly with poor eyesight.
It was a bitter winter, with thick snow on the ground, and my neighbour saw from her window a cold and wet hedgehog just beside the wall in the shallower snow. “How odd!” She thought, “That hedgehog must be very hungry to be out and about at this time of year.” So being a nature lover she went and got some cat food and took it out to the hedgehog. The following day she looked out and it was there again, so she put more food out. This went on for almost a week and she was really very pleased with herself.
Then the thaw came and this lovely lady saw her ‘hedgehog’ properly.
Bless her heart, this is what she had been feeding… an old-fashioned toilet brush partially buried under the snow.
She did feel silly, we think a local fox or cat had actually benefited from her mistake and been eating the food.
Mantha. 🙂
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