{"id":147291,"date":"2018-06-27T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/worlds-fattest-hedgehog-placed-on-diet-and-exercise-regime\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:46:09","slug":"worlds-fattest-hedgehog-placed-on-diet-and-exercise-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/worlds-fattest-hedgehog-placed-on-diet-and-exercise-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;World&#8217;s fattest hedgehog&#8217; placed on diet and exercise regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hedgehog\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/5DA4\/production\/_102227932_hedgehognew5492.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  New Arc<figcaption>Image caption                                      Arbuckle could hardly walk after over-eating                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presentational white space\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/604B\/production\/_97415642_007_in_numbers_624.png\"\/>                      <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A hedgehog which it is thought could be the world&#039;s fattest has been placed on a strict diet and exercise regime.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing in at 2.335kg (5lbs) - about four times the size of a normal hedgehog - it was handed in to a rescue centre in Aberdeenshire.<\/p>\n<p>Now named Arbuckle, the hedgehog could barely walk or form a defensive ball.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Marley, of The New Arc Animal Rescue Centre, near Ellon, said: &quot;He&#039;s about the size of a World Cup football, after overfeeding.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  New Arc                                                    <\/figure>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  New Arc                                                    <\/figure>\n<p>Mr Marley said it was the heaviest hedgehog they could find a record of.<\/p>\n<p>He told the BBC Scotland news website: &quot;We were really surprised by his size and weight, as the average is about 600g.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The person who contacted us said he was feeding hedgehogs but this one stayed and refused to go - this may well have been due to the fact he could hardly walk.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He will be fed a restricted diet which is filling, and scatter his food around for exercise. It will be a long, gradual process.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  New Arc<figcaption>Image caption                                      The hedgehog&#039;s weight shocked rescue staff                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Marley added: &quot;He will be grumpy for a while but we&#039;re being cruel to be kind. There is no way he would survive in the wild.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, an overweight hedgehog nicknamed Mr Piggywinkle was put on a diet at an animal rescue centre in Wiltshire.<\/p>\n<p>The 1.8kg (4lb) hedgehog piled on the pounds after being hand-reared on a diet of dog food and mealworms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright New ArcImage caption Arbuckle could hardly walk after over-eating A hedgehog which it is thought could be the world&#039;s fattest has been placed on a strict diet and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}