No need to raise it @debs64, just wondering if there was supposed to be a photo attached to your post? Can't recall what style of house you have. Make sure it's tucked away and that the entrance is facing the fence (with room for hoggy to walk past). This will stop cats etc taking an interest in the entrance. It's like having a private driveway! You can put some dry leaves in it, but not too many, this will let the hedgehog put his/her own style of decor in it.
Hubby says he saw this one on Amazon when looking for mine at Christmas @Guernsey Donkey2.🙂
@debs64 your hog house is the same as mine. I just put it under a tree beside the fence on a route I know hogs take. To improve the entrance I added bricks to make it a right angle entry just to keep cats out, and I know hogs have looked at it , but no takers yet.🙂
No badgers or foxes here AnniD. I am pleased with it - it was given to me and is all one room. Cats are my only concern here - they do come to snack on the hog biscuits sometimes.
We get loads of calls from people who have found a hedgehog in their garden, think it shouldn't be there so they are going to / already have taken it "up the woods".
Please DO NOT DO THIS!
Hedgehogs should only be released where there are other hedgehogs that have been seen recently. Hedgehogs are doing well in gardens. They are not doing well in the country or in woods.
Gardens provide cover and mixed planting which provide habitat for the insects that hedghogs eat and the nesting material they need. Please let them get on with it and don't try to second guess them. They know where they need to be.
A useful piece of information AnniD. One of our neighbours found a hog in his garden which was probably one of ours and he took it into some fields, which is fine but there may not have been any "mates" for the hog there. I am sure the poor creature was disorientated and may have had a family here.
Will do AnniD, although whether they will send to here is another matter. Approx. 75% don't like the English Channel - there is no extra charge for postage but they seem to treat us as if we live somewhere alien! We now have three hogs visiting our food and water bowls each night with a lot of huffing and grunting going on, I had never noticed the pungent smell of hedgehogs until this week when I opened the door to retrieve the food bowl, or perhaps this odour comes from just one of them on heat.
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You can put some dry leaves in it, but not too many, this will let the hedgehog put his/her own style of decor in it.
@debs64 your hog house is the same as mine. I just put it under a tree beside the fence on a route I know hogs take. To improve the entrance I added bricks to make it a right angle entry just to keep cats out, and I know hogs have looked at it , but no takers yet.🙂
We get loads of calls from people who have found a hedgehog in their garden, think it shouldn't be there so they are going to / already have taken it "up the woods".
Please DO NOT DO THIS!
Hedgehogs should only be released where there are other hedgehogs that have been seen recently. Hedgehogs are doing well in gardens. They are not doing well in the country or in woods.
Gardens provide cover and mixed planting which provide habitat for the insects that hedghogs eat and the nesting material they need. Please let them get on with it and don't try to second guess them. They know where they need to be.
https://www.hettysherbs.co.uk/charity-british-hedgehog-preservation-society/