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The Wildlife Rescue Team Malta has announced that the country’s fattest hedgehog Garfield sadly died during the night.
A necropsy performed on Garfield in the morning determined that the hedgehog died due to liver failure as a result of ‘extreme fat deposits in the liver’, causing his liver to stop working.
The condition is due to Garfield’s obesity, caused by months of being kept as a pet, being overfed and not allowed to exercise and run around. “THIS is why animals should never be kept as pets”, Wildlife Rescue Team wrote in a lengthy Facebook post.