Just seen this. I’m very sorry to read the sad news.
I recognise your anger from a similarly shameful incident with one of our young cats a few years ago. Somehow the several vets who got involved over a 36 hour period, including a so-called specialist, managed to spend over £5000 between them and achieve nothing at all.
Sounds great, I am 99% certain that I am getting hedgehogs , they are very particular in the way they take food. I have been putting water out during the heatwaves
While doing the washing up looking out the garden window, i could see Mr Tux arriving for a visit, then i realised Magnus was flopped out snoozing on the back door mat, Magnus awoke and seeing Mr Tux sprang immediately into battle, and by the time i could get outside they were both interlocked in mortal combat, tomcat battlecries and fur flying everywhere!
Using the back door mat i swiped on them to break it up; which it did, Magnus froze looking back at me, and Mr Tux tactically withdrew himself from the scene back over the wall towards home. Magnus then followed in hot pursuit, but don’t think he caught up, didn’t hear any more conflict…
Disa came out onto the patio to examine all the fur left drifting in the breeze 
Yes, Hedgehogs struggle in this hot weather as food and water is challenging. Yesterday was the open day of the Animal Hospital where my wife volunteers. The photo is part of the dedicated Hedgehog unit. They are very busy as in the hot weather, mothers are abandoning their young just to survive, so lots of young being brought in but obviously just the tip of the iceberg. Putting water out is important to them. Any Hedgehog out in the day is thirsty, and or hungry and it is not a good sign. ( I am told).
We are currently on Brambles crunchy hedgehog food ,chicken cat soup and of course water.
I put it out after dark to avoid bluebottle activity.
I am sure they now hide under the nearest shrub because after ten minutes they are feeding.
We have a large flattish dish full of water at the bottom of the garden. We have to clean it, refill it, two or three times a day. Lots of birds use it to drink from and some use it to bath in. Unfortunately our cat also likes to drink from it, which I think is undesirable from several points of view, not least our cat bio-security!
Yes, we have a “rough patch” opposite the house, I have asked the Recreational Trust responsible for the land not to disturb it as I am sure that hedgehogs use it.
It turns out that others have made the same request .
I’m in Woking David and can’t recall the last time I saw a hedgehog in or near our garden. Our previous dog would occasionally flush one out and realise it was a bad idea. Thinking back, I did rescue one from an open electronics pit along the Old Woking Road and resite it in the woods bordering Hoebridge golf course , but that would be 10 or more years ago.
I use Brambles crunchy hedgehog food , it sometimes attracts cats and pigeons - I can live with that . Other visitors are less welcome and there are two substantial grain fields at the back of my house and the end of the road.
Not all visitors are welcome , and all houses in the village have unwelcome visitors at one stage or another
I see a hedgehog in my garden now and again. The PPs take little interest in them. My guess this is either from experience of spikes or their movement doesn’t trigger the hunter response in PPs.
Unfortunately it does trigger the hunter in Harvey, our dog, fortunately he normally stops short as he sees the spikes when he is almost on it. A nightly occurrence here. He doesn’t learn 
Ribbit, ribbit.
And long may Binx continue 
The usual morning up at 6 am doing some watering in the garden. Miloh turns up for his breakfast on the patio. I decide to clean out Ivy our indoor bunny, by the time i finished Miloh had gone. Opened our side gate to put the bunny hay etc into our garden waste bin in the front garden. And i just glimpsed Miloh jumping through the open front window and he walked up and down the window sill. Came in and managed to get this pic, but with me in the house he was not as bold. He is a bit of a lad, lovely cat.
That’s scary! Is Mr. Tux neutered?
Yes
Mr. Tux’s family is aware that he’s a main character of the Naim forum?
I have mentioned it to his household servants, much to their amusement.
