burtkt 4 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Hi All Saw our First Lincolnshire Hedgehog the other day, made me wondered if there are still many about?, use to be a quite few in Arnold and one that use to have his/her little route across a busy road at a set time, quite funny the way the cars use to stop and wait for it to cross the road. Traffic of today has cut their number down sadly to say. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Saw a squashed one on the road in Caithness yesterday. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlotte1988 0 Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 There have been a few in our back garden recently. I bought them some dog food, but then sod's law they didn't come back again so it got wasted no2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Saw a squashed one on the road in Caithness yesterday. Q "Why did the hedgehog cross the road?" A "To see his flat mate." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 They are so darn cute, but apparently full of fleas. Well that's what folks used to say. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Yes they are full of fleas. I beleive they keep other pests down Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 They love slugs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Shame they cant climb our fence then. The other day I put down some slug pellets. Lots of snail and slug cassualties the next morning, Also Saw other slugs devouring the corpses! Canibal slugs! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Waste not - want not! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Daughter has a hedgehog house in her garden. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 why can't they just share the hedge? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Enigma. 1,533 Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 saw a tiny one cross the road the other day in daylight too thought they only came out at night Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 littlebro, love your photo @ #10; didn't know you could get such things as 'Hedgehog Houses'- s'pose there's a Hoover in there somewhere, so Mrs Hedgehog can hoover all the fleas up! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 No need - they are mutually self-destructive : "Big fleas have little fleas Upon their backs to bite 'em; The little fleas have smaller fleas - And so ad infinitum." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 The hedgehog house is under a tree. The hedgehog is of course free to come & go. I suppose that in the urban environment, hedgerows and hedges are somewhat rare nowadays, most houses have wooden fences. . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlotte1988 0 Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 Daughter has a hedgehog house in her garden. that is so sweet Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 I love your photos of the hedgehogs, katyjay. You don't normally see what's underneath the prickly back of the hedgehog. They look so cute and lovable, especially the one in the bottom, left, photo. #5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 The first picture reminds me of 3 conkers, just bursting open from their prickly shell, LOL. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted August 18, 2012 Report Share Posted August 18, 2012 Three conkers, that is such a funny way to describe them, katyjay. When I was sixteen years old I moved from Meadow Lane to Valley Road, Sherwood. My family had lived in a two up, two down with an outside toilet. The house in Sherwood had a bathroom, inside toilet and a garden. One cold night my Mum went to put something in the dustbin and spotted this hedgehog in the garden. Never having seen a hedgehog whilst living in the Meadows she took pity on it and decided to bring it indoors to give it some warmth on such a cold night. It wasn't long before the lounge was covered in fleas with everyone shouting and screaming as the fleas jumped all over them. In the end my Mum got the hoover and hoovered them up. She spent hours in the lounge with the hoover and for years it was a big laugh in family get togethers as we recalled what had happened. Needless to say, she never brought another one indoors...lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted June 7, 2013 Report Share Posted June 7, 2013 Today we discovered we have a hedgehog in the garden. Anyone any experience of them? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted June 7, 2013 Report Share Posted June 7, 2013 We once found a hedge hog in our garden and it had fallen down a hole that my husband had dug ,we had been away and when we found it the poor thing was quite weak,we asked around and we were told to give it pet food but not milk and bread as we first thought,it soon recovered and left the garden one night never to be seen again,Don't get to Close Mick2me as they are full of fleas, that is how we knew we had one, our dog came in with her nose covered in jumping fleas.LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted June 7, 2013 Report Share Posted June 7, 2013 Yes you are lucky, they seem to be very scarce these days. During the winter we saw a couple around where we live in Mapperley Park, just wandering about on the pavements, it was our dog on his late night walk that sniffed them out. Not seen them again for quite a while. Before that it had been years since we'd spotted one, even though we used to live in the countryside. I remember my younger brother bringing one home when he was a kid and putting it down on the kitchen floor and masses of fleas jumped out of it. Mum went mad! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 370 Posted June 7, 2013 Report Share Posted June 7, 2013 I was walking through Kirkby on Monday night, well after midnight (don't ask) and saw a hedgehog gradually working its way along Lowmoor Road, sniffing at everything it passed. We had one in the garden every night for several months a few years ago. It had a regular round, patrolling my garden and others along the street. You could almost time it by when dusk arrived. One lunchtime, I saw it in the back garden in broad daylight, in the summer. Then all of a sudden, it just never turned up again - run over or died, I guess Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkazana 1,736 Posted June 7, 2013 Report Share Posted June 7, 2013 If a hedgehog is out and about in the daytime it's usually a sign that there is something wrong with it, as they are nocturnal creatures, which is probably why you didn't see it again notty ash. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 370 Posted June 7, 2013 Report Share Posted June 7, 2013 I suspect it was just hungry - not much darkness in the summer to gather food! It was just sniffing around the back garden like at night. It was around for a while after that. It was pretty safe in my back garden - the cats found it difficult to get in. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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