Child with dead hedgehog?

Callistemon213

foxie48

My daughter aged 7/8 used to collect the bodies of dead wild life, put them on the shed roof to decompose and then investigate their skeleton. I think she washed her hands but I am pleased to report that she's still here aged 34 and works as a doctor.

foxie48 😁
Is she a pathologist?

Nope an anaesthetist so she still likes her patients comatose but now her job is to keep them alive!

My grandchildren are the same foxie. They collect skeletal remains and sometimes intact corpses. They had a dead stoat in the freezer for quite a long time, granddaughter thought she might o e day be able to taxidermy it. Eventually it had a decent burial in the garden.

foxie48

My daughter aged 7/8 used to collect the bodies of dead wild life, put them on the shed roof to decompose and then investigate their skeleton. I think she washed her hands but I am pleased to report that she's still here aged 34 and works as a doctor.

foxie48 😁
Is she a pathologist?

My daughter aged 7/8 used to collect the bodies of dead wild life, put them on the shed roof to decompose and then investigate their skeleton. I think she washed her hands but I am pleased to report that she's still here aged 34 and works as a doctor.

The kids at our school will poke their fingers into dead animals on the field if we haven’t seen and disposed of the animal first! If we catch them doing so, they have a thorough hand wash! Although I suspect there are some we don’t catch.

I’m not sure it’s a good idea to be “investigating” any corpse that’s been rotting for a few days. In any case I was always taught that even live hedgehogs carry various diseases that can be passed on to humans. I do hope they washed their hands well!

Well, providing the child washed their hands when they got home, I really do not see a problem.

I doubt I would have let my children touch it, although now I think about it if one of DC had wanted to take it home to examine it in more detail, I probably would have got a spade to lfit it and take it home, and once the examination had taken place , given it a decent burial.