Hedgehogs are fantastic TV - a member of my family used to get some great footage including one very memorable fight where one ended up rolling the other one around

Some nights my cat goes absolutely ballistic running from window to window to door, meowing and scratching to get out. And inevitably if I open my camera and look I'll see something like a family of racoons walking by or a skunk in the yard. It's a little consolation that he's just hearing other animals and isn't possessed by demons at 2am.

You can do both. You can set it to detect animals but turn off reviews. The reviews act like alerts you can "view" whereas the detection as more like metadata you can use on the search page

My Wyze cameras love to report "pets" - which have been deer, foxes, raccoons, opossums, and yes occasionally a cat or dog.

For sure, but rats and moths are usually not that cool ^^