Hedgehog in the garden- do we leave it?

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First time I’ve ever seen one. Crossing over the grass. Now hidden under some flowers. Do we leave it or do we need to rescue it? We have a dog and a cat if that makes any difference.

Please do keep the dog away they can cause nasty injuries and contrary to what a lot of peole think they can bite through the spikes.

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My dog was going bezerk in the garden one night last spring. Finally figured out it was all over a massive hedgehog underneath the trampoline. He was terrified.

I took to feeding and watering every night after dogs last year. Haven’t sent so far this year, hope it’s ok!

Please do keep the dog away they can cause nasty injuries and contrary to what a lot of peole think they can bite through the spikes.

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We've got a hedgehog that's a regular visitor and just leave cat food and water out. I've never seen it in the daytime, only when it's dark. It's a very noisy eater though!

Aren't hedgehogs great? One rocked up in my garden last year about this time and stayed right through until late autumn. I used to leave him a little mix of the cat's wet and dry food. If yours is a regular, leaving out a water supply would be kind but they're not great at reaching up into things to drink, so I got ours a very shallow little, hedgehog friendly bowl.

Our resident garden one was quite "blond" looking and not very bright so we called him Donald.

One night I was treated to what I can only call hedgehog dogging. A different 2 hedgehogs were getting jiggy in the field outside my house and Donald was standing watching. Better than the telly 😂

I'd 2nd the person urging caution with dogs I had to take a hedgehog to the SSPCA years back who'd had its leg ripped off by a dog 😢

They are also very noisy shaggers! 😳