Snowball - the treadmill pounding, fat hedgehog - Health, Diet and Fitness Today – 11/12/09
Posted: 11/12/2009 at 08:19pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
We thought we’d end the week with a bit of a light-hearted one after a week of putting diet pill companies to rights and looking at childhood obesity…
Snowball, an albino hedgehog weighing 3 times the average has been placed on a diet of low-fat kitten biscuits and is being put through his paces with (I kid you not) running and swimming sessions. He has so far lost a hefty 38 grams!
Snowball piled the… umm, grams on, by eating dog food left out for him. When his weight started affecting his health, St Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital in Buckinghamshire was tasked with trimming down the little blighter after a concerned member of the public took him there in October.
So, by my admittedly pretty poor maths skills (bolstered only by the use of a trusty calculator), Snowball has 962 grams to go until his goal weight of 500g. If he keeps going at the current rate of 6g a week roughly, it’ll only take him 160 weeks, or 3 years to trim down.
How long do hedgehogs live again?
How cute!?
Mark Pearson
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