Why oh why did it walk across my garden....

Bit like your average teenager then!

I think mainly they appear in the day when they are either sick or starving.

^^ about not abot !!!

Why do we instinctively start scratching when we read abot fleas ? I hope the little settles into his new home .

I once found a hedgehog on the way home from school and promptly put it in my school cap and took it home to prevent the 'big boys' from doing something nasty to it. About five minutes after decanting it onto the living room carpet we were awash with its fleas jumping ship for new homes in the carpet and three piece suite. My mother didn't let me live that one down for many months!

Oh yes.

Of course he'll wake up in the night, they're practically nocturnal!

And most of them have fleas.

We had a mummy and 4 babies in our garden in the summer but when we rang the rescue centre, we said we couldn't keep it because of the cat. They took it in and we gave them a donation.

Amazing that it is still awake - and alive. Shows how mild it has been.

Because he may wake up in the night of course. Little feller has lost his mummy.

Is there a problem with fleas?

Why, Jingl ?

He needs to be by your beddie at night.

We have a hedgehog "hospital" in Torrington, just a few miles away.

Doing a great job- hurrah. If little hedgie causes too much trouble at home. maybe you can find a neighour who has more space, or less resident moaners, to take him on.Hope it all works out.I had a lovely neighbour in Leicestershire who was the local 'hedgehog Lady' and so dedicated, with an (almost) equally dedicated husband Tell us how you get on.

Bet you he soon takes "ownership" of the little chap!

Good luck, do let us know how things go.