British Musician Pete Doherty Hospitalized After Getting Stabbed by Hedgehog Spike

Pete Doherty, then of The Libertines, performs on stage at British Summer Time Festival at Hyde Park in London, United Kingdom, on July 5, 2014. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images

British rocker Pete Doherty is recovering after being hospitalized for an injury caused by a hedgehog spike.

Doherty, who once fronted the band The Libertines, was stabbed by a hedgehog and the wound became infected.

In a selfie shared with his Twitter followers on Tuesday, April 30, Doherty is seen shirtless and holding up his arm, hooked up to an IV drip.

He captioned the selfie: “Nozzleville, West Virginia.

The 40-year-old musician,  who according to Fox was on tour with his current band The P--- Madres, later also shared a photo of a card with a hedgehog on the front and the words: “I am so sorry you’re feeling prickly.”

Doherty got pricked when his dogs picked a fight with the critter. He explained in earlier tweets that his dogs, Zeus and Narco, got a hold of the hedgehog and he sustained the injury when he tried to free the critter from their bite.

He explained: “Zeus and Narco had the cute wee verminous Shnuffle shuffle Pig of the the Hedge in their gobs and I wrapped my hand in a tshirt and freed the wee bugger and got a tiny cut.. That was Wednesday night/Thursday morning.”

He wrote that he felt fine for a few days before the infection started to get the better of him. Eventually, he checked himself into a hospital for treatment.

“Cue three days in a van with a carefree attitude to potentially infected forefingers. Infectious new songs on the album though [sic].”

Posting from the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Doherty wrote: “A picture me in a hospital bed with an infected hedgehog spike wound thank you to the wonderful men and women who work within the NHS. What absolute angels and a million times they deserve our respect and thanks.”

He also shared a selfie of himself holding up a heavily bandaged left hand and entirely wrapped index finger.

In a recent radio interview, a clip from which Doherty posted on Twitter, Doherty said he had always “wanted to be famous. I didn’t really care how.”

Pete Doherty, then of Babyshambles, performs at a music festival in Byron Bay, Australia, on July 26, 2013. Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images

Doherty is perhaps best known for being co-frontman for The Libertines. His other projects include the band Babyshambles, and the current Peter Doherty and the P--- Madres.