Hedgehog Found On First Floor

[hellywelly4]

My daughter heard rustling in her office which is on the first floor of her house. She investigated very nervously, and found a hedgehog in a box of dolls clothes! They live in a Victorian house with a steep staircase. How did it get there? They got some cat food for it and this was scoffed hungrily. There was no mess, no 'deposits', so she doesn't think it had been there long.
So, where did it come from. No boxes had been taken upstairs. She went with my grandson and put him in a field quite a way away from the road, and hope he settles there.
A mystery, but a nice one, it made her chuckle!

[tonyav]

Could someone have carried it in ?.

[hellywelly4]

No, that's the mystery. They are baffled.

[tonyav]

Very strange indeed.

[Tuvok]

Had she left a door open after dusk?

[hellywelly4]

It's possible, but the mystery is, how did it get upstairs? The steps on the stairs are quite deep, and what would make it want to go upstairs in the first place? There's no food kept up there.

[Tuvok]

They're more agile than you think. And fast!

Perhaps once it was in up was the only option!

Is your garden enclosed? If not you might have more.

[Chipchopper]

A similar thing happened with me, a few years ago.
In my case, the wee creature was a shrew.
I returned home with three bags of shopping, which was unloaded from the car and placed on the front step by the door.
After taking the bags inside, I started putting the groceries in their various cupboards etc.
It was when I got to the last bag, that I heard this scuffling and rustling. I gingerly removed the items from the bag, one by one, outside the door and found one terrified tiny shrew, which I then released back into the wild.
I guess, it only took that shrew, only a matter of a few seconds to hide inside the bag while it was left on the step.

[hellywelly4]

Methyl, no only a large dog, and I can't see him carrying it in! I expect it will remain a mystery, but a very nice one.

[ladybirder]

My money's on the dog, in the absence of a cat.

[hellywelly4]

Would the dog have been able to pick it up?

[woofgang]

yes some dogs learn how to pick up hedgies

[ladybirder]

Helly he probably buried it in the clothes so that he could go back and play with it later on:-)) Or try and eat it:-((

[murraymints]

ah ..how lovely..I would love a hedgie or two in my garden

[Sam1960]

Stick the kettle on minty, I'll be straight over ;-)

[hellywelly4]

Thanks for the answers. I expect it will remain forever a mystery. Just wish I had a hedgie near me, I've not seen one for ages.

[murraymints]

sam..got the jaffa cakes oot ! lol

[Sam1960]

I'm on my way minty....... ;-)

[murraymints]

right o ! xx

[Greedyfly]

We used to have a dog who liked to relocate Hedgehogs