Animals Save Britain's hedgehogs petition

[Pete Thomas]

Sign the Hedgehog Petition

Just to remind you, here are our very own hedgehogs. Well, they aren't "ours" of course, they are their own hedgehogs.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCIeeU7acXM

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[Alice]

A few years ago I made enquiries at St.Tiggywinkles because I wanted to home a couple of hedgehogs. I had researched everything I needed to know to make them a shelter for hibernation and there’s plenty of food here. At the time, I was growing vegetables in the top half of my large garden. I was told that I could only adopt a hedgehog by paying for them to look after them there at the centre. Please can you tell us how you managed to adopt some hedgehogs for your own garden?
There have never been any wandering around here, as far as I’m aware. I’ve never seen any evidence of them.

 

[GCinCT]

A few years ago I made enquiries at St.Tiggywinkles because I wanted to home a couple of hedgehogs. I had researched everything I needed to know to make them a shelter for hibernation and there’s plenty of food here. At the time, I was growing vegetables in the top half of my large garden. I was told that I could only adopt a hedgehog by paying for them to look after them there at the centre. Please can you tell us how you managed to adopt some hedgehogs for your own garden?
There have never been any wandering around here, as far as I’m aware. I’ve never seen any evidence of them.

I love the name "St. Tiggywinkles"! It's so quintessentially British. 🙂

 

[Pete Thomas]

Please can you tell us how you managed to adopt some hedgehogs for your own garden?

I didn't really adopt them. The two babies originated in our neighbours' garden, we then took them to the rescue centre as babies. When they were mended and grown up they asked us if we'd like them back.

They prefer them to go back to their own manor. I think by dispersing them to totally new places there can be different bugs that they are susceptible to.

But once back and we put the camera out there we discovered at least three more that were already living there.

The best way to get them is to ,make sure your garden is accessible, try making a feeding station (ours is just an upturned plastic box with an L shaped "porch" made of bricks that cats can't get in. Then put in puppy food kibbles.

However you may have more luck getting them from an independent shelter that don't have the same stringent rules as St. Tiggywinkles. (Look on facebook)

Seeing evidence of them is not that likely unless you are very good at noticing tiny little poops on your lawn.

 

[jbtsax]

I love the music with the video. It fits the "hedgehog concept" quite nicely.

 

[Pete Thomas]

I love the music with the video. It fits the "hedgehog concept" quite nicely.

Thanks

 

[Colin the Bear]

I love the name "St. Tiggywinkles"! It's so quintessentially British. 🙂

Quintessentially Beatrix Potter.

 

[Alice]

Thanks @Pete Thomas thats great advice.
Yes I would notice their poop!

 

[spike]

Watch out Alice:
Healthy hedgehog droppings are black or dark brown in colour, solid and usually oval or tapered. They can be up to 5cm long.
Most wild animals excrete poop that is solid and dark in colour, so do we humans when we stick to a healthy diet.
Cat poop is similar, however from my experience with the neighbourhood cats it's usually shorter and can be slimy and stinky depending on what they've been fed.
I could go on but maybe we should start a poop thread

 

[Ivan]

...usually oval or tapered...

No crimping?

 

[Pete Thomas]

I could go on but maybe we should start a poop thread 🙂

Start your own poop forum for that mate!

I'd say the hedgehog poops are definitely smaller than cat's and way less stinky.

 

[Alice]

I know the difference. I am a country girl.

 

[spike]

Start your own poop forum for that mate!

I can understand your disdain for my comment Pete.
I live out in the country, we have wild rabbits, hedgehogs, deer, squirrels and wild pigs not to mention the birds of a feather to name but a few.
We also have domestic animals in the neighbourhood in particular cats.
Although we are doggy people the cats do tresspass our domain and leave their faeces on the terrace and in the garden.
My missus started out as an assistant to a veterinarian and we still have contact to him.
Over the years I've had many conversations with him about how too many pet owners feed their animals - "Wrongly"
Bottom line: Domestic cat poop shouldn't be over-stinky, a little larger than hedgehog poop perhaps nevertheless similar in consistency to all other wild animals, from elephant to man to mouse and so on. If it is then it's a result of false nutritrion.
I rest my case

 

[saxyjt]

I was very surprised to see one in our garden a few months ago, July or so. I can't figure how it got there as we have walls all around, although one is partly down... So that may be where it came from. But it was on the very opposite side of the garden.

They have a bad reputation here for carrying flees. So we tend to stay clear.

 

[Pete Thomas]

I was very surprised to see one in our garden a few months ago, July or so. I can't figure how it got there as we have walls all around, although one is partly down... So that may be where it came from. But it was on the very opposite side of the garden.

They have a bad reputation here for carrying flees. So we tend to stay clear.

1. They can climb walls and, incidentally, swim. But probably not ride bikes or drive cars.

2. They have fleas yes, but their fleas are not the slightest bit interested in humans.

 

[saxyjt]

1. They can climb walls and, incidentally, swim. But probably not ride bikes or drive cars.

2. They have fleas yes, but their fleas are not the slightest bit interested in humans.

It's good to know, but I have a vivid recollection of my dog's flees a few years ago and I'm not interested in renewing the experience.

 

[Pete Thomas]

It's good to know, but I have a vivid recollection of my dog's flees a few years ago and I'm not interested in renewing the experience.

Yes, but I'm only talking about hedgehog fleas, not dog fleas. Those are a different flea.

 

[saxyjt]

Yes, but I'm only talking about hedgehog fleas, not dog fleas. Those are a different flea.

Sorry, I'm not a flea expert. I've just been traumatized by my experience fighting my dog's fleas... Then my wife came along and as a school teacher she's been fighting lice on a regular basis.

So hedgehogs are all good. Right? They will not it even drive my bike or car away. Cool!

NB: I was also traumatized by 'Gremlins' and hedgehogs could easily be mistaken for Gremlins.

 

[Jeanette]

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Jx

 

[Greg Strange]

Hedgehogs are regarded as a pest in New Zealand - an introduced species. To top it off when also have 70 million Australian pests in New Zealand commonly called possums...

Greg S.