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Hedgehogs - ok not a pet but....
Is anyone else getting a lot of hedgehogs lately?
We have had teeny baby ones up to virtual monsters in our gardens and on the verges |
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I recently found one in my garden and I called it Orlando.
It made a big nest under my hedge and I was really happy. ![]() Left food and water out for it but it seems to have gone now.
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Yes, we get a number of hedgehogs most nights, most we've seen in the garden at one time is three of them.
We've also twice had to hunt them out from upstairs
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Hopefully this is a good thing as numbers have been declining rapidly over the last decade or so.
Whenever I used to go out in my Mum's garden on a summer night I would hear them rustling around noisily, these days it's a rarity. |
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We've also twice had to hunt them out from upstairs ![]()
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I feed my hedgehogs nightly, and leave them water. In return they leave me copious amounts of excrement all over my patio!! There's gratitude for you!
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I feed my hedgehogs nightly, and leave them water. In return they leave me copious amounts of excrement all over my patio!! There's gratitude for you!
![]() What do you feed them? |
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Ha ha
![]() What do you feed them?
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This is fantastic news is people are noticing more hedgehogs.
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Cat food. Much to the cats disgust
![]() http://thehedgehog.co.uk/feeding-hedgehogs/ |
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OMG don't they have fleas?
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My mothers garden has 6 hedgehogs, 2 babies, 1 female, and 3 very,very large males. We always have a bowl of water available, which the adults can reach. When l saw the babies l got a couple of planter saucers, one we put on the grass with water in it, so the babies can get a drink. The other one is full of dried fruit and cat biscuits, we tried wet cat food, but the plates were cleared by passing cats before the hogs had a chance to eat.
We cut a hole in our front garden gate, initially so our ageing stray could get in and out easily, but the hogs use it all the time. |
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Yep and copious ticks normally too, so if you've got them in your garden you have to make sure to keep your pets spot on up to date. A friend of mine has hedgehogs in her garden, her dog went nosing about Iin the undergrowth near where they lived and had ticks on it afterwards
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Have had a few hedgehogs in my garden over the years - there was one a few weeks ago which I was feeding, but haven't seen it for a while. At my last home I had a neighbour who would never feed her two cats, they were always really hungry and looking for food. I started leaving a dish of food for them just inside my front door each night. I'd leave the door open a tiny bit so the cats could get in and eat. It didn't take long for a hedgehog to discover the free grub, so every night he used to come in and tuck into the food then go off on his way again.
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We have a hedgehog, a baby one we found on the road. He's lived in the garden for months now and hasn't left.
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My mum gets them in her garden. There's some living in a little hedgehog house they bought from the Garden Centre. Where my mum lives is quite surburbany but the garden is fantastic for wildlife with all sorts of plants and flowers in it.
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We get quite a few around here, we've had from babies to biggies recently.
Feeding them nightly on a mixture of meal worms, peanuts, sunflower hearts and raisins, basically anything the cats wont eat. Trying to fatten them up before they hibernate, in previous years we've taken a couple of small ones into the Hedgehog place when it's got colder as they didn't weigh enough to survive hibernation. |
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