Looking For Somewhere To Die?

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I discovered a baby hedgehog in my garage yesterday. He must have been there for a while as he couldn't have got in when the door was closed. I hadn't been into the garage since getting my gardening tools out a couple of days previously and had the left the door open while I raked up some leaves. He must have crept in then. He was lying on an old piece of sacking and looked dead to me. I wondered if perhaps he was hibernating, so I put him in a cardboard box with some old clothes and brought him inside. After a few hours he was still showing no signs of life. My son happened to come round just then, so I asked him what he thought. His verdict was that the poor little thing was dead. However, just in case, we left him in the box and put him in the shed. After we'd done that I googled 'hibernating hedghogs' and it said if they are hibernating they will be rolled up into a ball with no face visible. This little chap's face was completely visible so he was definitely dead. I wonder whether he had died because he couldn't get out of the garage, but I wouldn't have thought that he would starve to death in a couple of days. Or perhaps he wasn't well and looking for somewhere to die. Sad either way.