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A woman who brought what she thought was an injured baby hedgehog into an animal hospital went bright red in the face and left quickly when staff told her it was actually a fluffy hat bobble, the manager said today.
The kind-hearted woman had carefully nursed the ball of fluff overnight after finding it by the roadside and put it in a shoebox with a bowl of food.
She clasped her hand to her mouth in shock and exclaimed: 'You're joking!' when she was informed that the 'creature' she had brought in was actually a fashion accessory that belonged on a woolly hat.
She had mistaken the bobble for an injured hedgehog and spent the night looking after it before bringing it in last Thursday to Lower Moss Wood Nature Reserve & Wildlife Hospital, in Knutsford, Cheshire.
But when hospital manager Janet Kotze opened the box, she realised the 'hedgehog' actually belonged on a woolly hat.
Ms Kotze said she 'couldn't believe what she was seeing' when she made the discovery.
A woman carefully nursed what she claims she thought was a stricken 'baby hedgehog' overnight only to find out it was a fluffy hat bobble (pictured) when she rushed it to an animal hospital
Hospital manager Janet Kotze (pictured) said 'couldn't believe what she was seeing' when she made the discovery
The hospital manager revealed today: 'The lady brought it in a cardboard box very gingerly and when she placed it on the counter, I could it was lined with newspaper and even had a small dish of food. In the middle was a small furry ball.
'She said that she had rescued a baby hedgehog and spent the night caring for it but