Just to let you know that Hefty Hedgehog has woken up - he left a 'big deposit' in the garden last night - I'll put some food out in the usual places this evening
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'll do my best but he comes out quite late and you know how early I fall asleep on the sofa - we sometimes peek outside with a torch just before we go up to bed, and catch him chomping on his peanuts!
OH is a really light sleeper and sometimes complains that he has been kept awake by hedgehogs snuffling on the terrace!
He's a really messy feeder (Hefty that is, not OH ) - he scatters bits of food all over the place - there's quite a mess out there this morning, and a 'deposit'.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lovely stories and pics so though I'd join in We get the odd hedgie in the garden, my OH loves them, but as far as I know they don't build nests (or whatever) probably because of the dogs.
Last year while walking the dogs there was a big Mr (presumably) hedgie strolling across the road, about to get squished, I quickly gave the dogs to my OH and went onto the road, stopped the cars lollipop lady style and picked mr hedgie up and put him in a garden. I was so pleased I had saved him, I would have been gutted if he had been squished
Hi Lizzie, no it didn't hurt at all, he didn't actually feel as prickly as I thought he would and I didn't give it a second thought....I could never see and animal squished
Years ago, when my last dog was only very young, back in England, I was walking him late and saw a Mummy with 3 babies crossing the rd. I was amazed how big she was, and also how quickly they can move if they need to. I was scared they may curl up on the rd when they saw us then get run over, but they just scurried on. A lovely sight. Dad brought one home that he nearly ran over when I was little, for us to see, and I was amazed that the spines were not as hard as I expected. Although it may have been young. It was certainly nowhere as big as that mum I saw so many yrs later. Mum just yelled about fleas! She was a city person!
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Just to let you know that Hefty Hedgehog has woken up - he left a 'big deposit' in the garden last night - I'll put some food out in the usual places this evening
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh, Great, Dove. Any chance of a pic if you see him?
I'll do my best but he comes out quite late and you know how early I fall asleep on the sofa
- we sometimes peek outside with a torch just before we go up to bed, and catch him chomping on his peanuts!
OH is a really light sleeper and sometimes complains that he has been kept awake by hedgehogs snuffling on the terrace!
He's a really messy feeder (Hefty that is, not OH
) - he scatters bits of food all over the place - there's quite a mess out there this morning, and a 'deposit'.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lovely stories and pics so though I'd join in
We get the odd hedgie in the garden, my OH loves them, but as far as I know they don't build nests (or whatever) probably because of the dogs.
Last year while walking the dogs there was a big Mr (presumably) hedgie strolling across the road, about to get squished, I quickly gave the dogs to my OH and went onto the road, stopped the cars lollipop lady style and picked mr hedgie up and put him in a garden. I was so pleased I had saved him, I would have been gutted if he had been squished
Very brave to pick him up Tracey, well done for saving him. Did it hurt?
Hi Lizzie, no it didn't hurt at all, he didn't actually feel as prickly as I thought he would and I didn't give it a second thought....I could never see and animal squished
Years ago, when my last dog was only very young, back in England, I was walking him late and saw a Mummy with 3 babies crossing the rd. I was amazed how big she was, and also how quickly they can move if they need to. I was scared they may curl up on the rd when they saw us then get run over, but they just scurried on. A lovely sight. Dad brought one home that he nearly ran over when I was little, for us to see, and I was amazed that the spines were not as hard as I expected. Although it may have been young. It was certainly nowhere as big as that mum I saw so many yrs later. Mum just yelled about fleas! She was a city person!