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tipp-igel Pro Igel Conference »All about Hedgehogs« 2009!

On May 16th and 17th, Pro Igel will organize the third conference "All about the Hedgehog" in Muenster/Westfalia. There will be talks in German by scientists and vets and presentations by experienced hedgehog carers.

We invite all German speaking hedgehog friends, carers and interested people working on or are engaged for animal protection and ecology concerning hedgehogs.

If you want to find out more about, please read the German information in detail under "Aktuelles" (News in German).

tipp-igel Attention, new medicaments!

Since 10/2006 the product Citarin-L 10% by the manufacturer Bayer, the operant medicinal product against lungworm infestation, is no longer available in trade.

The active substance Levamisol is still available in the German veterinary drug trade. At present it is contained in three Levamisol-injection medicinal products which are produced by other pharmaceutical manufacturers in the same 10% solution.:

  • Levamisol 10 (Firma CP-Pharma, Firma medistar-Arzneimittel-Vertrieb GmbH, Firma WDT)
  • Belamisol 10 (Firma BelaPharm)
  • Nematovet 10 (Firma aniMedica GmbH, Firma Klat-Chemie-Vertrieb GmbH)

All three injection solutions are ten percent, so the solution should be diluted for better compatibility and dosage with distilled water or electrolyte solution in proportion 1:4. 1ml Levamisol 10% + 3ml of the dilution substance make the field tested 2,5 % solution. Only mix small quantities! To use within 24 hours!

Instructions for treatment, dosage and correct injection technique can also be found in our special publication "Igel in der Tierarztpraxis".

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tipp-igel New Pro Igel publication! "Igel-Geburtstags-Kalender"

Geburtagskalender

Informative, practical, good-looking – the everlasting birthday calendar of Pro Igel has been released recently. The Cologne artist Nora Appenzeller created twelve watercolours presenting a year in the life of a hedgehog in emphatic pictures. Short texts clearly describe the life of the hedgehogs for each month in the year. The calendar has the size ISO A-4. Underneath the illustrations there is much room for noting down personal anniversaries, birthdays and other dates.

Igel-Geburtstags-Kalender
Pro Igel e.V. 2008
ISBN 978-3-940377-00-5 EUR 7,00

tipp-igel New German publication! Igel gefunden - was nun?

Biermann Cadmos

As a completion of its companions Cadmos-Edition published a book about hedgehogs and help for hedgehogs. The author is the journalist and specialist in German philology Claudia Biermann. With her knowledge of Pro Igel publishings she drew up an attractive book. One can sometimes notice that the author herself doesn´t have any practical experience with hedgehogs. So she asked the experts of the Hedgehog Centre Zurich for help who gave their fundamental know-how so that the book could be written mainly without mistakes. Besides chapters about biology and hedgehog care the hedgehog-friendly garden and dangers for hedgehogs are outlined. Some special topics like baby-raising were omitted. As well as in the chapter about diseases the author doesn´t go into detail, just describes some symptoms and insists in a veterinary treatment. She doesn´t dare give veterinary advice herself. The book is richly illustrated with coloured photos and made up clearly and attractively.

Igel gefunden - und nun? Von Claudia Biermann
Cadmos Verlag 2007
ISBN 978-3-86127-079-9 EUR 10,95

tipp-igel New German publication! Wake up little hedgehog!

Wake up little hedgehog

Bilingual teaching opens new opportunities. Learning via pictures is appropriate in the second and third grades of primary school. In this case the hedgehog was chosen – didactically successfully and factually excellently prepared. "The Little Hedgehog" for the interdisciplinary schooling in English is almost without any mistakes. Obviously the authors informed themselves well about the topic. They name relevant reference books and refer to Pro Igel. In the preface they point to mistakes in texts and photos (they had better avoided them at all). At first the book is about the understanding of a story about hedgehogs, emphasising their nightly activities, unfortunately naming apples and frogs as their food which is definitely wrong. The topic hedgehog is completely and correctly talked over. Except for the fruit all the facts are correct starting from the spines to the course of the year. The hints for overwintering and hibernating are correct, too. The chapters Arts, Games, Movement contain good ideas for creative works, playing and music. The book is illustrated with nice drawings. If the mistakes and errors are corrected with the next printing edition, it would be a nearly perfect work.

Wake up, little Hedgehog! Von Birgit Gegier u. MarEl Schaefer
Verlag an der Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2007
ISBN 978-3-8346-0205-3 EUR 16,50


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