Handling hedgehogs and carrying cats: Pete the Vet answers your animal questions

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We have inherited a family of hedgehogs in my rear garden, living under the shed. 

Our house is in the suburbs. They appear when it is dark. Food is left for them at the foot of the paving slabs leading up to the shed. They hoover up all the cat food left for them.