Lots of tips to keep hedgehogs safe and well while ensuring they get the chance to get out and about, find the wide range of food they need and meet up with other hedgehogs to do what hedgehogs need to do. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lots of tips to keep hedgehogs safe and well while ensuring they get the chance to get out and about, find the wide range of food they need and meet up with other hedgehogs to do what hedgehogs need to do. 😊
Thanks for that, I've seen that one and a few others. Some people in America keep hedgehogs as pets according to one, I don't believe in "interaction" with wild animals.
We kept our distance from the litter of six cubs a fox had under the tea-house in 2017. Although I did leave out some cat food for them to suppliment their diet.
All six made it over the fence and out of the garden when it was time to leave the den.
Video taken through the glass of the French windows on "zoom."
Hedgehog street is about wild hedgehogs …. Just ensuring that the environment, especially our gardens, don’t contribute to their demise. I’m a bit concerned that the hedgehog in your garden can’t get out as I understand it. Wild hedgehogs need to range over several acres each night.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hedgehog street is about wild hedgehogs …. Just ensuring that the environment, especially our gardens, don’t contribute to their demise. I’m a bit concerned that the hedgehog in your garden can’t get out as I understand it. Wild hedgehogs need to range over several acres each night.
Thanks for your concern, but we've made our decision based on the particular circumstances, rather than well meaning general advice.
We aren't too sure he's a "full shilling" given how ill he was when we found him.
Shortly after, another young one was found dead in the garden of the house opposite.
The last thing we'd want is for him to get run over in our narrow road.
He'll be able to use this door I made ready for him the base panel side fence, in the Spring. No point opening it now.
It originally was just a hole I'd stitch drilled and covered with a bit of slate. The house next door has presently been unoccupied for a year, the garden completely out of control and he might not have found his way back if he got out.
My wife jokingly said it really needed a little door, so I made one as a bit of a joke too.
She's not a well woman and would be heartbroken if he ended up like the other one. By Spring she'll have accepted that it was time for him to be given more freedom and the house next door would be occupied and the garden reinstated. So I'll take the door off and just leave the frame.
The house next door has presently been unoccupied for a year, the garden completely out of control and he might not have found his way back if he got out.
I saw these posts/photos on another gardening forum and you got annoyed about people having an opinion on your hedgehog door, telling them not to comment and to go away etc. Maybe that's why you're in the "doghouse" and came onto this forum to cause trouble.
I saw these posts/photos on another gardening forum and you got annoyed about people having an opinion on your hedgehog door, telling them not to comment and to go away etc. Maybe that's why you're in the "doghouse" and came onto this forum to cause trouble.
Come on behave!
Such animosity just makes me smile.
Everyone on every forum has an opinion, often expressed without properly reading posts before adding their unsolicited unfriendly two penn'oth. It'll never change, but other contributors don't have to put up with it. I'm one of those.
I've been quite polite and as usual, haven't on any forum ever told anyone what to do in their particular circumstances if they haven't requested advice.
Try it, people might then have a higher opinion of you.
Steady on lads … let’s not cause ructions. We can’t tell folk what to do in their gardens … we can only make suggestions. What they do is their choice …within the law of course 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Doghouse Riley This forum has recently experienced some rather nasty stuff and people are feeling a wee bit cautious. Given that particular issue and as a previous poster on this forum, albeit some years ago, I'm sure you will understand
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Given that particular issue and as a previous poster on this forum, albeit some years ago, I'm sure you will understand