Using a vacuum and some plastic tubing, rescuers Macgyvered a device to rescue two baby hedgehogs who had tumbled down a storm drain.

While the vacuum didn’t work, the tube did, and can perhaps became a standard-issue rescue device for these little critters who “love enclosed spaces.”

The story comes from the English county of Warwickshire, where a homeowner called the local hedgehog rescue charity after hearing cries of distress coming from a drain in her garden.

Arriving, rescuers discovered a baby hedgehog had tumbled 4 feet down into the drain and was trapped in a narrow underground pipe.

Firefighters were also called and tried to use a vacuum cleaner to try and suck the critter out of the drain. When that failed, the charity workers pushed an old plastic tube which had once contained a curtain into the drain.

After several minutes the stranded hedgehog crawled into the tube and rescuers were able to pull it up from the drain.

“The storm drain had been covered with chicken wire but the gaps were bigger than the hedgehog which had fallen down inside,” said Sally Ellis, a spokesperson for the charity Warwickshire Hedgehog Rescue.

“We alerted the fire service who tried to suck the hedgehog up with a hoover but that didn’t work. Eventually the woman’s son pushed a plastic curtain blind tube into the drain and the hedgehog was curious enough to get inside.”

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“Hedgehogs love enclosed spaces, they feel safe there. Thankfully, the hedgehog was unharmed along with its sibling found nearby.”

The sibling was also rescued, and both were taken in by the animal charity.

“Both hedgehogs are doing well and we look forward to releasing them back into the wild.”

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It’s reminiscent of a recent story from Kansas, where a varmint-sized boy fell down a large PVC drain pipe buried in the earth, and had to be rescued by first responders who improvised a varmint-catching pole to haul him out of there.

The lesson: don’t leve drain pipes unattended or open, whether varmint-sized, or varmint-sized-boy-sized.

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