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Please please help my poor little Hedgehog!!!!!

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Groucho

Wrapped in plastic
Heeelp!!

Been attacking my garden with the help of a mate and a robin who thought we needed some worms pulling. :)

But we inadvertently unearthed a sleeping Oggie. :(
Fortunately we didn't spike him with a fork...but we destroyed his hideaway.
Picked him up and placed him in a freezer tray (no, not in the freezer!), covered him with leaves and covered him over with an old wooden door by the side of the house.

Will Oggie be ok? What else do I need to do? I guess moving Oggie as little as possible. I'll need to move the tray once more only but that shouldn't disturb him.

Poor Oggie the hedgehog. :(
 
Also South Essex Wildlife Hospital 01375 893 893 do rescue and rehab, they could probably give advice. It's probably just a case of making sure he has somewhere warm and dry to spend the winter, but as his nest has been disturbed they may want to take him in and release him in the spring. It could be that he'll have found a new home overnight as it's not that cold yet, so check in the morning to see if he's still there.
 
There must be a massive hedgehog mating session this year as we have 3 pairs in our garden, shagging like nutters.
Your hedgehog should be ok,did you look to see if the nest had any babies in it?
 
Stobart Stopper said:
There must be a massive hedgehog mating session this year as we have 3 pairs in our garden, shagging like nutters.
Your hedgehog should be ok,did you look to see if the nest had any babies in it?
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There were no baby oggies.
 
I was reading one of those shit magazines (it was love it, chat or new) and there was a story about a woman that understands hedgehogs. They actually talk to her apparently.
 
This is still a bit early for them to go into hibernation, if it was curled-up, it was trying to protect itself from your gardening. They normally don't go into hibernation till @late October-early November.

Hogs do tend to free roam about a regular area & by adulthood, usually have several nest sites to range between, so if there are no young, he/she will simply toddle-off to the next one.

One thing, to stand a chance of surviving hibernation, hedgehogs must weigh a minimum of 1lb so you now know one of its scent trails which it & other hogs will follow regularly. You could leave some food & water out, they will eat more or less anything except dairy - can't digest lactose so it could kill them. :( . Cat food - meat or dry, digestive biscuits, old fruit, any sort of food scraps etc. Mine go bananas on roast chicken drumsticks from the local supermarket. Sometimes I get a big bag when they knock the prices down before closing time & the smell can bring hogs romping-in from all the surrounding gardens. Think 9 at once was the record! :D
 
pogofish said:
This is still a bit early for them to go into hibernation, if it was curled-up, it was trying to protect itself from your gardening. They normally don't go into hibernation till @late October-early November.
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Yes, that's right I see. Oggie will have crawled off to eat slugs. Panic over, I hope!
 
If you want some cat food I have some cans that the buggers don't like. You know how it is... buy one and they wolf it down, buy in bulk and still have it sitting in the cupboard a year later :rolleyes:
 
LilMissHissyFit said:
Good !!!some people dont:p
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There is a picture of a hedgehog being fed milk, on the cunnilingus book spam thread that got hi-jacked with hedgehog pics :(

RIP mr hedgehog :(
 
It was probably just curling up to protect itself from you, it's probably fine.

the really important thing from now on is to make absolutely sure you never use a strimmer near the hedgepig as strimmers kill loads of them, often very painfully by cutting their noses off.

Also tell the neighbours and ask nicely if they can run a hedgepig friendly garden regime, which basically means, no strimmers OR search VERY carefully for hedgehogs before using a strimmer and not using slug pellets which will poison them. This kind of thing works best if you involve local kids and families, share photos of your hedgehogs on line, that kind of thing, just get everyone involved in looking after the hedgehogs.


The combination of poisoning from slug pellets, strimmers and RTAs mean that our hedgehogs are now endangered.

((hedgehogs))

eta

links

http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,13369,1687999,00.html

http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_...angered_hedgehogs_news_article_557_120339.jsp
 
subversplat said:
Tiggies told me that Hedgepigs can drink goat's milk.
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Low lactose products like cat milk are tolerable but I've no idea about goats milk.

Also, if you do ever see a hedgehog going about during the day, it usually means it is dehydrated so water fast, is a good thing. :)
 
mrs quoad said:
Kentucky Fried Hedgehog.
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Hogs were actually one of the original fast foods in this country. They curled-up when cooked & the spiny coat made a perfect packing, so no waste. Certain parts of London were famous for them, OTOH, The Strand was one.

We have an old (contemperanious with Darwin) natural history book kicking around here somewhere that listed the best places to get your hog-oot in London & even a page or two of recipies for those without an emporium nearby.

Cooking hedgehogs back then was clearly a lot more than just baking them in clay! :eek:
 
Louloubelle said:
It was probably just curling up to protect itself from you, it's probably fine.

the really important thing from now on is to make absolutely sure you never use a strimmer near the hedgepig as strimmers kill loads of them, often very painfully by cutting their noses off.

Also tell the neighbours and ask nicely if they can run a hedgepig friendly garden regime, which basically means, no strimmers OR search VERY carefully for hedgehogs before using a strimmer and not using slug pellets which will poison them. This kind of thing works best if you involve local kids and families, share photos of your hedgehogs on line, that kind of thing, just get everyone involved in looking after the hedgehogs.


The combination of poisoning from slug pellets, strimmers and RTAs mean that our hedgehogs are now endangered.

((hedgehogs))

eta

links

http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,13369,1687999,00.html

http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_...angered_hedgehogs_news_article_557_120339.jsp
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My neighbours to the West have a concreted over back yard where they park a bloody great white van and a car. Oggie won't go that way.

My neighbours to the East have a garden full of large rose bushes that bloom all year round. The garden is always full of birds twittering away. I'm sure they'll happily be Hedgehog friendly. :)
 
Hedgehogs can thrive in sometimes the most surprising urban/industrial settings - so long as they can find a food supply, somewhere to nest. They have been taken into my work after being found on docks, up old pipes & even on top of tower blocks (they are nifty climbers as well), However a good garden with a mix of cover, open grass, a varied insect/slug/snail population & especially a compost heap - warm, soft easy to nest/feed in. A patch of ornamental Saxifrage is a good draw too - not just for feeding in the dense foliage, they also love to cover themselves in saliva & scratch themselves from head to toe in it. :)
 
porcupine-baby.jpg


gorgeous
 
Epona said:
If you want some cat food I have some cans that the buggers don't like. You know how it is... buy one and they wolf it down, buy in bulk and still have it sitting in the cupboard a year later :rolleyes:
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Yes please. :)
 
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