This little fellow is a wild hedgehog I rescued in the summer 2011. I was on my way home from work when I noticed him on the road. He was walking very shakily and there were cars driving very close by, so I hopped off of my bike and picked him up. He had blood on his nose and ear and he was clearly in shock. He must have gotten hit by a car so I took him home with me. I was very worried that he wouldn’t make it, and I didn’t have the possibility to take him to a vet.

I put him into a box with some water and cat food and left him alone. He was acting very oddly because of the shock and just lay there, as if he didn’t have any strength to even pull his legs underneath him, poor thing. He didn’t eat or drink anything that evening and when I went to check on him the next morning I was prepared to see a dead little hedgehog in a box.

Instead, I heard the scratching before I even opened the door to the room his box was in. He went into ball immediately when he saw me and huffed and puffed very angrily at me. He had eaten all the food I had left him, knocked over both of his trays and frantically tried to climb out of the box by the look of it all.

He seemed like a completely different hedgehog, compared to the lethargic little thing the night before, very angry and antisocial, telling me with the noises he made that he was Indeed A Very Dangerous Creature. I was happy to see that he seemed normal. There seemed to be nothing wrong with his legs and since he had eaten all the food I gave him, i decided to release him into the garden.

I hope the little hedgepig didn’t have any internal damage to him that I couldn’t see and that he stayed out of trouble and away from cars. By the way he scampered off, he seemed more than happy to get away from humans.