mick2me 3,033 Posted July 6, 2013 Report Share Posted July 6, 2013 Yes it is a detector dog, she detects ringing telephones. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted July 7, 2013 Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 Notty ash, LizzieM, you are lucky people to be privileged with hedgehogs in your garden; I have to make do with a scupture of one in my conservatory. Here's hoping ............................ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,514 Posted July 7, 2013 Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 Jackson, we'd not seen a hedgehog for more than 20 years, apart from spotting one on the road along from our house a few months ago. We lived down south before coming back to Nottingham 9 years ago and in a wood at the bottom of our garden at the previous house we had badger setts and always assumed, like Darkazana says, that badgers eat hedgehogs and in all those years at that house we never once spotted one. It was lovely to have the badgers around although we never saw them except if we got up in the night when we'd see and hear them romping about on the lawn. We also had Muntjac deer in the wood ........ oh and a pair of wallabies !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pixie 162 Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Had one running around in a large circle for about an hour like it was trying to beat its personal best! When I saw the fox I decided it was a good time to save him. I took him to my back garden n fed him some catfood that he scoffed not even caring I was sat next to him! Next door said they have a few living under their shed, and one lives down the side of my outhouse that the other half saw one evening. But iv never seen them in the garden personally, apparently they're good to have around, they eat all the slugs and snails Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 372 Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 Found this little cutie in a corner of my front lawn this evening - fast asleep and totally oblivious to me mowing the lawn. Definitely very much alive! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 372 Posted July 24, 2013 Report Share Posted July 24, 2013 The baby hedgehog turns out to be two! This one was out hunting around 2pm in the back garden. When I returned from shopping an hour later, this one was in the front garden, at the side of the house I saw another one from the kitchen window. I thought this was the same one, out back - but quickly checked and the one in the front garden was still there...... I got up really close - I think I even got a smile 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted July 30, 2013 Report Share Posted July 30, 2013 My neighbours in Ethiopia had a family of Mongoose living under their house. They were a bit like big hedgehogs. They came out at night and played on my lawn. I have a photo somewhere in the dark recesses of the attic. I might try and dig it out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Not seen any of them here... Yet Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 We have a badger sett in next door's garden, so do not have any hedgehogs around. We see he badgers regularly during the night which is great, but they let themselves down by digging up the lawn! Lack of hedgehogs also means that we are plagued with slugs! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkazana 1,736 Posted August 14, 2013 Report Share Posted August 14, 2013 Did you know baby hedgehogs are called Hoglets? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MRS B 533 Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Have just put some more food out for my hedgehogs, there’s a lot of activity out there tonight! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,316 Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 Yes @MRS Bit was a good night for hedgehogs. Mine were very hungry and scoffing kitten biscuits. Lovely to hear the crunch of hogs enjoying their food. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,630 Posted April 20 Report Share Posted April 20 This morning I was walking around Newark and stopped on the market to pick up the usual bags of wild bird food and I notice on the shelf was bags labelled "Hedgehog food", never seen that before so next week I'll pick a bag up and try it out on the ones in my garden Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,316 Posted April 20 Report Share Posted April 20 I tried some last year, Rog. They didn't seem keen and opted for their mixture of cat biscuits and mealworms. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,630 Posted April 20 Report Share Posted April 20 Thanks Jill, I'll stick to the usual then Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MRS B 533 Posted April 20 Report Share Posted April 20 Mine have “Symply” dry chicken cat food along with a dish of water and seem quite happy. They shouldn’t have anything fish based apparently or milk. I remember as kids we used to give them a saucer of milk with bread - very bad for them we are now told. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,328 Posted April 21 Report Share Posted April 21 Apparently hedgehogs are quite tasty. Back in the 50s we often had genuine travellers/gypsies camp near the end of our village and they told us that after dispatching the little critters and gutting them then covering them in clay and baking them in a fire. The spines come off with the skin along with the clay. Apparently, hedgehog stew is quite popular too. It is illegal to domesticate them in the UK but it is not illegal to eat them. in January 2023 some travellers in Belgium were fined 1,600 Euro for eating them. Before anyone arcs up, Guinea Pigs or Cuy are bred specifically for human consumption in Bolivia, Columbia Ecuador and Peru 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,316 Posted April 21 Report Share Posted April 21 Hedgehogs are listed on schedule 6 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981), which makes it illegal to kill or capture them with certain methods. Humans, on the other hand, are highly edible. Apparently, they taste like pork. I'm a vegetarian and have far too much respect for animals to eat them but if anyone wants to eat their fellow man, that's fine by me. After all, man seems to subject his fellow man to just about every other indignity and cruelty he can think of, so why not eat him? It was, for many years, rumoured that Captain James Cook RN was eaten by the Hawaiian Islanders but that is not true. They merely cooked (no pun intended) him until the flesh separated from his bones. Their culture attributed magical powers to bones. I don't doubt that the flesh was gobbled up by other creatures who were looking for a meal. Waste not, want not. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,423 Posted April 21 Report Share Posted April 21 23 minutes ago, Jill Sparrow said: if anyone wants to eat their fellow man, that's fine by me. And if it's you that's on the menu? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,316 Posted April 21 Report Share Posted April 21 That's fine by me. It's only a body. It isn't really me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MRS B 533 Posted April 23 Report Share Posted April 23 Just been investigating some very loud hedgehog grunting by my shed and there are 2 hedgehogs presumably going through the rutting procedure. Have left them to it and left more food out in case they need some sustenance! Bless them. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,630 Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 "Rutting procedure" priceless, Notts folk never cease to amaze me with their quirky sayings, bless you Mrs B Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MRS B 533 Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 Rog, it went on for a couple of hours with the male circling the female grunting. I thought it was the chuffing of the steam train at Great Central when I first heard it ! They ended up under my barbeque after he went there first and she followed so I guess she finally gave in. He’ll be off now with no interest in the bringing up of the babies. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,187 Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 2 hours ago, plantfit said: "Rutting procedure" priceless, Notts folk never cease to amaze me with their quirky sayings, bless you Mrs B Rog That’s what posh people call it Rog. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,630 Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 1 hour ago, MRS B said: Rog, it went on for a couple of hours with the male circling the female grunting. I thought it was the chuffing of the steam train at Great Central when I first heard it ! They ended up under my barbeque after he went there first and she followed so I guess she finally gave in. He’ll be off now with no interest in the bringing up of the babies. A few humans settle for a cigarette after (you know what) but from what you say hogs have a BBQ, could that be called a celebration of his/hers success? the mind boggles Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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