Someone was eating crisps in my garden at 4am!

[TakeABowSheila]

I was woken by noises in the garden, I tried looking out of the window but it was was too dark so I was asked 'hello?'
No reply.
I thought I could see someone on a chair directly underneath me.

I crept downstairs.

Opened the locked back door (so knew it wasn't any of my teens out there)

The chair had a dark towel on it, no person.

I could still hear someone munching crisps, I stepped out and there was a hedgehog licking the inside of a packet of sweets!

I tried to get him some fish cat food but he ran off. I've left it incase he comes back.

His little face was so sweet!!
I hope there weren't any sweets in the bag. Will be having a word with DC about that.

So cute though.

You had me worried for a second there OP lol

Aah congratulations on your hedgehog 'baby'. You will find yourself leaving water out in multiple accessible locations. There should be enough food around already.

'Our ' hedgehog is particularly noisy at dusk. That's when we've seen him in the garden. They are fascinating.

Oh I'll leave him water tomorrow night. I was so confused at the noise.

They're fast little things! I've not seen one in years.

Aw 😍
I got worried though!

Hi OP, thank you for putting some food out. However (and i know its all you probably had to hand!) but Hedgehogs aren't interested in anything fish flavoured. It's not natural to them.

Poulty/meat flavoured cat biscuits and cat food (never mealworms) and fresh water all year round, especially as its been so hot.

Enjoy.

ypte.org.uk/factsheets/hedgehog/helping-hedgehogs#section

Please don’t feed fish! Very bad for hedgehogs

Aww they are pretty cute! There is a hedgehog survey asking to register sightings, 'hedgehog street' I think it was.

Aw they are the cutest things, I love them!
I hope you get to spot it many times.
Thanks for taking care of it

Soon as I saw the title I knew this would be a hog. Such cute little guys.

They can be fast when they want to. Glad it was a hog and nothing bad.

Aw that is soo cute and will be back for food and water. Can you imagine how cute little hedgehog babies are. All as I saw in my small garden was a magpie and a crow ha!!

We got woken up whilst camping once to a loud rustling and scuffling to find a hedgehog in our porch eating a packet of digestive biscuits that hadn't been properly stored 😳.

@Northernsoullover haha!
I found a giant one a few nights ago. My dog was barking so I went out to check and could hear such loud crunching I thought it was a person or rat or something. This badboy was chowing down on a snail my dog lay down on the patio and didn't bother moving when he came and had a drink from his water bowl 😍

You will think hedgehogs are cute, until you hear them having sex under your bedroom window at midnight and realise they're loud dirty feckers😎

Omg I thought fish was the one your were supposed to give them 🤦🏻‍♀️ I chose fish out of the multipack

No wonder he didn't touch it.

I'll go with chicken tonight!

Can I just say I absolutely love this thread!

One strolled into my basement flat one day, he had rolled down the steep garden. I took him to a park the next day to find friends to play with.

I have a couple of stories. Years ago I was sitting in my sunlounger and something came crashing through the hedge!, i screamed and it was a tiny hedgehog! They can make a lot of noise. Then I got home anotHer night late at night and as I was unlocking my door my foot touched a parcel, which I then scooped up, f@#k it was a huge hedgehoh ouch lol. Love them so much tho

ah a hedgie!! You could get one of those ring type cameras to "watch" your friend in his natural (aka your garden) habitat! could be super fun if you have kids

You're braver than me!! No way would i have opened the door if I heard noises in the garden.
I would have sent DP to investigate 🤣🤣

On the basis of the title alone, I knew it would be a hedgehog! They're so noisy (and cute). We have gravel underneath the bedroom window and they scuttle back and forth on it, then stop for a good snuffle - it's amazingly loud for such small creatures.