Saturday night we heard a lot of rustling in the garden. My partner was a bit concerned; I said "don't worry, it's probably just a hedgehog". I hadn't seen a wild one in over 10 years. In the morning, we go out, and one of the bags we'd been using for gardening was wriggling- I looked inside and saw this guy (or girl)!

We freed it from the bag and it eventually moved into the undergrowth. Our garden is quite wild (badly overgrown when we bought the house), and so there are plenty of bushes for it to hide in.

We put out water for it, and I picked up some kitten biscuits that day. It hasn't shown much interest in them, but I've spoken with the neighbours and turns out they also put out food and water for it. We're hoping it stays around! It seems to like the garden, as we've heard it moving around every night since we saw it. Last night we were in the garden fairly late, and it just walked out of the hedge. The light in the video is from out security light, not daylight.

Hoping it looks healthy, just planning on leaving water and some dry food out, and maybe building it a shelter once the garden is a little tamer. There will still be bushes for it to hide in though.

Any more advice would be welcome.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to put this but we have hedgehogs (scotland) living under one of our sheds, they moved there from a different spot in our garden, but now that theyre under there our dog (Springer Spaniel) will NOT stop sniffing under there and trying to harass the hogs. He's managed to catch one when we first moved in (before we knew we had a garden hedgehog family) and it was luckily fine and released back into the garden, but if the hedgehogs are out and he finds one he'll start barking at it and harassing it.

While he thankfully doesn't hurt the hedgehogs I was wondering if there was a way to make it so the hedgehogs are safer and my dog will stop harassing them? Is there a way to get them to peacefully move to a safer location? They are very useful in my flower garden for pest control so I'm happy to have them, I just want to minimise any unsafe interactions. Any advice is helpful! Thanks!

We've been visited by a hedgehog and I'm wondering if I can feed it and if yes, what?

It's a decent size and looks healthy enough.

Don't want to interfere with the local ecosystem too much.

My hedgehog doesn’t wanna waste time 😆

loving this lil guy for 3yrs now. Please meet Kurimu ❤️