Dead Hedgie On The Lawn

[pastafreak]

:-((
I saw this several weeks ago on the lawn outside my block of flats. What could have caused it...?
As long as I've been here...10+years...I've seen occasional hedgehogs every summer. This is the only one I've seen so far.

[andy-hughes]

Something as simple as old age.

[Mamyalynne]

Wild creatures die all the time, we only get to see them occasionally - it would be guesswork to try to discover why it died.

[Bertrum]

Hedgehogs are very prone to cancerous tumours but don’t rule out old age everything has a finite lifespan

[Tuvok]

I have one that I feed every night.

Before this one I had another that started staying overnight in a hedgehog house that I provided. It got to the stage that he was taking extra bedding in with him. (I have trail cameras setup to observe the activities in the garden)

He then died enroute to the bed area within the house!

[fender62]

Tuvok, thats lovely, i also try to help where i can

[Tuvok]

I feed him (usually Aldi) dog food and a special hedghog seed mix - he prefers the dog food!

[woofgang]

It was a bad year for them last year...to do with the dry weather then mild winter which prevented proper hibernation. Our local hedgie rescue was so overwhelmed with sick ones being brought in that it had to close its doors.

[woofgang]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/12093683/Britains-hedgehogs-at-risk-from-unpredictable-winter-weather.html

[Old_Geezer]

Wish I had some in my garden. Would keep the slug and snail population down and give my plants a fighting chance.

[kvalidir]

Theyre after water at the moment around here. We saw three round our drains the other night when the dogs were going mad, so we've been putting water bowls down all over the place and something is drinking them so I hope it's the little hogs :)

[hereIam]

Aww good for you kval ....