Reply To: Young hedgehog out during the day. Now indoors with me

[Marchel]

I’ve just had a similar experience with a young small hog. It turned up a month ago and we see it most nights on our wildlife camera. It appeared to be doing fine, eating, drinking and looked okay.
However yesterday I saw it out in the daytime. Not for long, ate some food and disappeared back into shrubs. Looked okay. But then I saw it again later around 3pm. It ate some more food, had a drink and headed off to the wilder area where the pond is. I followed it at a distance and it mooched about, think it caught a beatle and ate it and seemed active and fine. I did think about leaving it to it and that I was worrying about nothing, but decided to keep monitoring.
Pleased I did because a few minutes later it came out of the long grass and lay down in the open. Clearly not right. Made the decision to pick it up there and then and got it inside into a box and off to wildlife hospital. They said it was a bit thin, would check it over and worm it.
Rang today to check up how it was doing. Didn’t get a lot of info on what’s wrong, but they said it was off the heat pad and was eating and drinking. They said I could ring on Saturday and if it was recovered I could collect and release back in the garden. Fingers crossed.
First time I’ve had to take one to the rescue centre. Although I did need to have a bit of a tussle with one a few months ago that had a plastic bag on it. Was the type you would put vegtables in at the supermarket. The hog had managed to climb through the handle of it and it was tight round it’s middle. Managed to get it off and it was back feeding a short while later.