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Help Save the Hedgehogs Part II

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  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    edited August 2019
    Since I posted that three turned up together I have not seen the other two. After the reception hoggie gave them I'm not surprised,  frightened one to death and head butted the other away from the food /water until it left. What was surprising is it is the smallest.
  • Logan4Logan4 Posts: 2,590
    Since I posted that three turned up together I have not seen the other two. After the reception hoggie gave them I'm not surprised,  frightened one to death and head butted the other away from the food /water until it left. What was surprising is it is the smallest.
    The other two will probably arrive when the other one has gone.

    Just had the 2 youngsters they must have stayed for 15 mins, now gone.

  • Logan4, not sure what's going on one adult and three youngster on lawn feeding station. One running into the undergrowth and two youngsters and one adult on the patio. We either have two families or three not sure, if it's three that explains why we've gone through a box and a bit of cat biscuits this week. It's either that or the words got out free food and drink no digging needed and their come from all over to feed.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I know the others haven't been back as we have a night camera, and it's been a couple of weeks @Logan4
  • We thought we would take a look and see if the Hedgehogs we're still there. Sadly they are not sp we have moved the wood incase someone else moves in. I'll keep a look out tonight and see if they are on the lawn feeding station and on the patio. They could have moved into one of the two Hog houses I built for them but I'm not going to look. We cleared the garage out today so a rest day tomorrow. I hope they are somewhere in our garden.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I am told they do move after a while, so they are probably nearby, hopefully in your hog house @NannaBoo
  • Well if it's not the ones that were under the wood purplerallim but different one's I don't mind as long as they are safe. Do you know at what time of the year they start to go into hibernation. 
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    It's all to do with temperature and food that triggers it , so different every year.
  • OK thanks for that, will keep putting the food out till I see it's not going. then I'll just put it in the feeding station on the lawn incase one of them gets up and can't find food.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Well just when I think I have seen everything,  I look out tonight and see two hogs trying to eat from the same dish. Now I know why food was all over the patio they have been taking the dish from each other and tossing food around while doing it.🤣
    It also shows that hoggie has grown as they were the same size, and a few weeks ago hoggie was visibly smaller, I think it was the scared one as its prickles are a bit ragged on its rear end.
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