Hedgehog

At full daylight we found this cute little guy in the garden....

Just a week ago we saw a hedgehog on the street in front of our house. He looked shaky and somehow not healthy and he was just about to run across the road. Therefore we picked him up and put him under some shrubbery. We anticipated him to die soon, but when we checked on him after a while, he was gone.

We assume that todays hedgehog is the very same. He still looks kind of weak although he is awake and curiously looking at us. We picked him up and put him in a box. After a phone call at the local hedgehog information centre we decided to take care for him. His whole face was covered with ticks. There were some extra ugly ones in his ears.....We removed like dozens of them... We found no other injuries. We weighed him: He has 620g today. It is recommend, that we should feed him until he has 800-900g, then he may be released.....
After the whole procedure he fell asleep. When waking up we fed him with some dog food. (Our dog looked not too sure whether he agrees...). The hedgehog seemed very happy about that, although his table manners are not the best....he was smacking loudly...
So most likely he is just too light weighed after hibernation and in urgent need for food  and therefore running around at daylight.

The children called him Kim.