Our cat did sit and look at them but think he was clever enough to realise it was too risky to go near.
Put the cat food out last night and it was all gone this morning, hopefully the hedgehog got it and not any other interloper. Won't be our cat anyway, he hates cat food!
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
All gone again this morning too. I have so much cat food as gone through every brand trying to get Marmalade to eat it, one way to get rid of it, hope it will save the poor little things.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Great Make sure that you're not too tidy in the garden - as the autumn progresses leave piles of dry leaves and stacks of twiggy bits etc in quiet sheltered dryish corners where they can build their hibernaculum.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have various Hefty Houses, bought and home-made, in the garden and also piles of prunings and the cuttings-back from perennials earlier in the year etc. We also pile up the runner bean haulms in a dry corner against the fence to provide plenty of choice of hibernation spots - after all, they know better than we do about what's most suitable.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Been digging at the other end of the garden today and all the while under the trees and shrubs can hear all sorts of strange noises - didn't go close but think it might be another hedgehog making a den, lot of rustling and seemingly heavy breathing.
Been reading up about them and apparently up to 10 different ones can visit your garden over a short time. They will certainly find lots of good stuff for a den in this garden.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Oh DD you're so lucky And the hedgehogs are very lucky to have such a perfect setting for their hotel boutique hibernation you are creating for them this year
Rustling and heavy breathing - defiinitely hedgehogs - frightened the living daylights out of daughter who was sitting out in the garden one evening just after we moved here (having a ciggie). She thought we had a prowler in the shrubbery and sat frozen to the spot until she spotted Hefty snuffling around in the leaf litter.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Our cat did sit and look at them but think he was clever enough to realise it was too risky to go near.
Put the cat food out last night and it was all gone this morning, hopefully the hedgehog got it and not any other interloper. Won't be our cat anyway, he hates cat food!
That's great - regular feeding will give them both a chance of surviving the winter
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
All gone again this morning too. I have so much cat food as gone through every brand trying to get Marmalade to eat it, one way to get rid of it, hope it will save the poor little things.
Great
Make sure that you're not too tidy in the garden - as the autumn progresses leave piles of dry leaves and stacks of twiggy bits etc in quiet sheltered dryish corners where they can build their hibernaculum. 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No chance of that Dove - just about manage to keep on top of the main bit in the middle, lots and lots of untouched corners - no fear!
Hurrah!
We have various Hefty Houses, bought and home-made, in the garden and also piles of prunings and the cuttings-back from perennials earlier in the year etc. We also pile up the runner bean haulms in a dry corner against the fence to provide plenty of choice of hibernation spots - after all, they know better than we do about what's most suitable.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Love the pics DD, well cheered me up
Thank you for sharing x
Been digging at the other end of the garden today and all the while under the trees and shrubs can hear all sorts of strange noises - didn't go close but think it might be another hedgehog making a den, lot of rustling and seemingly heavy breathing.
Been reading up about them and apparently up to 10 different ones can visit your garden over a short time. They will certainly find lots of good stuff for a den in this garden.
Oh DD you're so lucky
And the hedgehogs are very lucky to have such a perfect setting for their hotel boutique hibernation you are creating for them this year 
Rustling and heavy breathing - defiinitely hedgehogs - frightened the living daylights out of daughter who was sitting out in the garden one evening just after we moved here (having a ciggie). She thought we had a prowler in the shrubbery and sat frozen to the spot until she spotted Hefty snuffling around in the leaf litter.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.