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Home Forums Carers / rescuing a hedgehog Overwintering indoors or in shed? Reply To: Overwintering indoors or in shed?

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I know the feeling of having one inside your house…
In never I took one in from my garden that had been ripped open by an owl (as far as I could tell from the claw marks that is).

He’s still in my house and very healthy. Luckily I sit outside with my garden hogs while they eat every night and talk to them (I know, mental right?), so he was very used to me anyway and would already take food from my hand before.

The female that lives in my garden has a badly clubbed foot, not natural, unfortunately, she had something wrapped around her foot when she was a hoglet and it has terribly deformed it and bent it over.

If a hedgehog is fat enough, or warm enough, it won’t hibernate. I obviously don’t want mine to hibernate as I need to keep an eye on his healing progress but, your two appear to be fine so I would 100% put them in your shed for the winter.

Good luck! Hope they’re doing great still.

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