Mine are still active (after dark of course). It's still easily mild enough, barely dropping into single digits at night. And with all this rain there are tonnes of slugs and snails around for them to fatten up on before the cold hits.
@ieccles651_nmUKAC- Eating and perky isn't always a sign that it's a happy and healthy hog. There is a reason why they behave this way despite being gravely ill but the explanation is somewhere within the thousands of posts on the Supporting Hedgehogs Facebook page which is run by rescues. I know for certain the explanation's been given a number of times but I don't recall the exact details. Glad to hear it was dark when you saw it. There's so many ill hogs around and it's heartbreaking to read the stories from rescues.
One year I had two young hogs overwintering in my garden. Both too small to hibernate. They never stopped eating all winter. They appeared most days, except on the odd day we had a frost ( it was a mild winter) but I even saw them in January snow. As they ate all winter, by the spring they had grown to full adult size. So it very much depends on how hard a winter we have as to whether late young survive.
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