Hedgehog House

[Grizelda]

I would love to have these dear little creatures come to visit my garden at night. But, if you buy the house for them, how can you be sure the hedgehogs are visiting and not the cat next door? BTW, the hedgehog design on the roof of the house could cause offense to hedgehogs. The creature looks like a baby dragon with a nose like a watering can. Do hedgehogs eat certain food that cats or other night prowlers would not touch?

 

[Loveinamist]

I’ve heard not to give them bread and milk as it swells in their tummy. Wet cat food is recommended and there are bags of prepared hedgehog/badger food available. Fruit and veg and unsalted nuts too.
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/what-feed-hedgehogs-and-badgers

 

[Grizelda]

I’ve heard not to give them bread and milk as it swells in their tummy. Wet cat food is recommended and there are bags of prepared hedgehog/badger food available. Fruit and veg and unsalted nuts too.
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/actions/what-feed-hedgehogs-and-badgers

Thank you.

 

[LV73]

Thank you.

I have hedgehogs in my garden. They change where they live each year, one year they were under our decking, another year they were under the neighbours upturned wheelbarrow. They completely ignored the hedgehog house we made for them and lined with hay!

Yes they like cat biscuits and wet cat food. Definitely don't give them bread and milk. They have a routine where they patrol their patch at night so we would go out and sit still watching them eat and snuffle around. Don't give them mealworms either because this leads to bone deformations.

 

[donna255]

If your neighbours have garden walls, you won't get any, as they cannot climb. So you need a clear path for them to roam, hedges only.

 

[candycane]

I'd love hedgehogs in the garden but we have walls so they can't get in. I have seen a couple of toads, fieldmice, the dreaded rat and a few weeks ago I saw a stoat! Bry was going nuts and there it was running around the little patio at the end of the garden.

CC

 

[Grizelda]

I'd love hedgehogs in the garden but we have walls so they can't get in. I have seen a couple of toads, fieldmice, the dreaded rat and a few weeks ago I saw a stoat! Bry was going nuts and there it was running around the little patio at the end of the garden.

CC

I don't know what goes on in my garden at night. I know there is activity because I notice small disturbances. My cat and dog are inside at night, so it's not them. I'd love it to be a toad, fox or stoat but not a rat or mice. I can't be fussy, however. Whoever wants to come, will come, but Welcome Hedgehogs!!

 

[candycane]

We have a dry stone wall all around our garden and there are lots of families of field mice. I see them sneaking out of the wall to eat some of the bird food or some of the young plants. I don't mind them but when we had roland rat I was beside myself. Sadly for him he met his demise via next door's border terrier.

CC

 

[Grizelda]

We have a dry stone wall all around our garden and there are lots of families of field mice. I see them sneaking out of the wall to eat some of the bird food or some of the young plants. I don't mind them but when we had roland rat I was beside myself. Sadly for him he met his demise via next door's border terrier.

CC

I had a rat in the house about two years ago. I knew it was a rat because it was shredding and eating plastic. Mice don't do that. My dear cat eventually got him. What a good girl. She was so proud of herself.

 

[donna255]

In my old house, Olly Puss wiped out a whole family of rats. He brought them into the backyard to show the bodies.

 

[Grizelda]

In my old house, Olly Puss wiped out a whole family of rats. He brought them into the backyard to show the bodies.

Olly Puss - well done. Rats should stay away from humans, especially humans with cats.