A tiny injured hedgehog that vets refused to treat prompted Les Stocker to found St Tiggywinkles in 1978, a hospital for wildlife that became not only busiest in Britain but in Europe too.
Declaring that “so many animals die, forgotten and alone, without anybody seeming to care”, his first patients, three muntjac deer, a badger, a fox that had survived a car accident and two large swans were all crammed into his small garden near Aylesbury in Hertfordshire.
Since then over 300,000 animals have received treatment, now at a dedicated hospital in Haddenham, Bucks which opened in 1991.
Animals ranging from hedgehogs to frogs, little owls to housemartins and badgers to deers arrive daily at the hospital, where they are treated, sometimes with
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