We do not live in at the moment in ENGLAND we live in the foothills of the Apennines mountains in LUCCA Italia our family lives in England, New York, Texas, Miami, Singapore, Austria. So any help you can suggest for our dilemma with our visitors Mr Hedghogh and family are Welcome !!!
We do not live in at the moment in ENGLAND we live in the foothills of the Apennines mountains in LUCCA Italia our family lives in England, New York, Texas, Miami, Singapore, Austria. So any help you can suggest for our dilemma with our visitors Mr Hedghogh and family are Welcome !!!
Don’t use insecticides and make sure you have lots of rough areas with low growing shrubs … those areas will then contain the good necessary for the hedgehogs without having to dig
We feed the hedgehogs around here with dried meat-based cat biscuits. We also make sure there are plenty of shallow dishes of fresh water about for them. Hedgehogs get very thirsty.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How are the hedgehogs getting into the garden? Block up their holes if you don't want them in the garden and thus rooting around on the grass. If you do want them to visit, do you have a Hedgehog Rescue Centre/ Hedgehog Society that maybe could advise you on how to stop them digging up the grass? Perhaps provide them with multiple areas of food and water for them, away from the grass? This may deter them from going looking for things amongst the lawn? Good luck.🙂
If you were dead set on making a small electric fence, how would you even determine what kind of voltage would be safe to deter an animal as small as a hedgehog without injuring or killing it? Trial and error? I don't have a clue about specific wildlife laws in Italy but there are EU laws regarding causing animal suffering. I feel it unlikely that electrocuting a hedgehog to prevent damage to your lawn would be considered justifiable in any court of law and I doubt you'd get much sympathy from the public either. Wildlife is frequently a pain in the arse. Blackbirds dig enormous holes in my raised beds in the spring and squirrels are currently having a go because they're burying food for winter. As frustrating as it is, I've never once considered doing anything to cause them discomfort just so I can keep the beds (which I should add, I've spent THOUSANDS on), looking perfect. Wildlife's gonna wildlife.
We have the same problem here, also hedgehogs coming and using its snout to dig. But i think its grass grub destroying the lawns and hedgehogs and birds coming to eat them.. we used pesticides on our lawn and waiting for it to work, experts says it takes upto 6 months to completely eradicate..
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We feed the hedgehogs around here with dried meat-based cat biscuits. We also make sure there are plenty of shallow dishes of fresh water about for them. Hedgehogs get very thirsty.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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If you were dead set on making a small electric fence, how would you even determine what kind of voltage would be safe to deter an animal as small as a hedgehog without injuring or killing it? Trial and error? I don't have a clue about specific wildlife laws in Italy but there are EU laws regarding causing animal suffering. I feel it unlikely that electrocuting a hedgehog to prevent damage to your lawn would be considered justifiable in any court of law and I doubt you'd get much sympathy from the public either. Wildlife is frequently a pain in the arse. Blackbirds dig enormous holes in my raised beds in the spring and squirrels are currently having a go because they're burying food for winter. As frustrating as it is, I've never once considered doing anything to cause them discomfort just so I can keep the beds (which I should add, I've spent THOUSANDS on), looking perfect. Wildlife's gonna wildlife.