It's something I would very rarely see nowadays.
..Carey has encountered one animal just waking up from hibernation.
Since I was a child, this is probably the first time
I've seen a hedgehog really close up,
but there's no doubt hedgehogs are very cute.
The hedgehog's likely to have been living off its fat reserves
for four months.
Well, I was walking with the dogs about four or five days ago,
and found him on the side of the path
and he was walking along the driveway, disorientated.
And I am now worried, is he actually blind?
Because he's not behaving as a normal hedgehog would.
To be honest with you, I know very little about them.
I call him Harry the Hedgehog, but I honestly don't know
if he's a Harry or a Henrietta.
Right, come on ahead.
Hello, my little hedgehog friend.
Hello, little hedgehog. Oh, hiya! Oh, yum, yum, yum.
Right, we'll give him some food since he has come out to say hello.
Tasty bites. Oh, no, don't be doing that.
Here you go. Oh, you're so hungry.
He is hungry. I mean, I've fed him about three times.
He ate masses. He did? OK. He ate absolute masses.
But what I'm concerned about is when they're walking along,
he sort of walks strangely.
He was, like, hugging the side to know that
he was in contact with something.
Almost like he was trying to touch it. OK.
So I don't know if it's just because he's disorientated.
Oh, no, give me my finger back!
If they curl into a ball it means they're quite strong
because they're fit enough to actually do that.
That obviously involves quite a lot of energy.
Because he's all balled up, I can't assess his eyes
because they are tucked right up in,
so his eyes are well hidden. Yeah.
So they're quite prone to getting wee traumas to their eyes.
So I need to get him to be in a normal standing position.
So I need to rock him back and forward
and talk to him gently to try and coax him out of his little ball.
Hello! We'll maybe just set him down.
He came out there a wee minute ago.
Tasty, tasty bites. He did come out - for food, I think.
He'll come out for food. Can you smell some tasty bites?
Yum, yum, yum, yum.
Oh, oh! Hiya.
He says, "Oh, look, tasty bites." It's OK, I'm not going to touch you.
Look here - tasty bites.
We'll maybe leave a bit more out for you.
We'll just have to continue feeding you.
This is maybe his evil plan all along.
Hello. Hi!
You're quite a cute little hedgehog.
So this is just a little bit of dye so I can have a wee look
into his eyes and make sure there's no ulcers.
The dye that I put into his eye, if there's an ulcer,
it stains thickly green.
I want to have a wee look in your peeper.
Tiny, tiny wee eyes and there's no dye staining in them,
so it doesn't look like there's a wee ulcer.
So he's healthy enough?
I think he can see OK, you know.
Do you know if he's a fella or a girl?
I think your hedgehog might be a boy. It's a boy.
Ouch! Oh, did he nip you? Yes!
I think he just mistook my finger for food.
He says, "This is wonderful, this is the best day of my life."
Usually when we would have hedgehogs coming in,
maybe they've been hit by a car, there's been a severe trauma.
It's very rare that you would get a wee healthy
sort of looking hedgehog coming into you.
I'd be happy with him. OK. I mean, he's very bright.
He's very capable of curling himself up into a ball
and protecting himself.
He's eaten us out of house and home.
Hey, wee man.
Hazel's a feeder. She likes to feed all the animals that come in.
Yes! This is clearly her favourite animal ever. He's hoovering this.
This is like us at lunchtime!
He's an excellent wee hedgehog.
Reassured that he's in robust shape, Carey takes Harry to his garden.
Very pleased. I was so worried that he was blind,
and to know that he isn't, is great.
So this is an enclosed bit of garden.
So fingers crossed he can just be in here.
We set the little house up for him. So we'll just put him in.
I'll just literally... You can't be too ceremonial,
I'll just have to tip him in. He's in.
He seems quite happy.
So he is Harry the Hedgehog and fingers crossed all goes well
and he finds Mrs Harry soon, which would be even better.
If we could have little Harrys later in the year,
that would be fantastic.
# Now all the world's asleep
# But the leaves in the woodland, they'll whisper their rhymes
# Now to the roots running so deep. #
Well, good luck, Harry.