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Hello all
I’m new to the site and was interested to read about the hedgehogs disappearing for a while. We have a resident hedgehog who lives under our shed. We moved two years ago and shortly after could hear strange snorting noises in the garden of a night time. Our bedroom overlooks the garden and we live in a bungalow. One evening I looked out the window about 11pm and at first I thought it was rats running about as I couldn’t hear any noise. I got my phone and turned on the torch and discovered it was 3 hedgehogs. I didn’t feed at first just leaving then to their own devices. Time went on and then I could only see one. I started feeding it every night. I knew it lived under the shed as I watched it come out and go back under. One day early April it was in the garden during the day. Very strange so I put out food which it ate and some water. A week later my dog found it under our hedge in the day time. I thought it was dead as it was a sunny day and it wasn’t moving. On closer inspection it was alive but very weak and looked like some blood on its spines. I quickly scooped it up and took it to a hedgehog friend of mine. He kept it for a week and it recovered nicely. It was under weight so he fed it up and returned it to me as I wanted it back to where it lived. It went straight back under the shed when I released it that night. I’ve continued to feed him every night since and he’s got quite big. However I went on holiday on 8th August for 2 weeks. My son came over periodically to feed him but the last sighting of him was 18 August. I haven’t seen him since we returned on 20th. I have put food in the usual place and right by the shed but food hasn’t been touched. I’m really worried something has happened to him.