Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • 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.

It's something I would very rarely see nowadays.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it