Poor hedgehog ☹

[Me matt]

Yesterday evening while cleaering some scrub ground in a clinets garden I hit a hedgehog with a strimmer equipped with a brush cutting blade ☹ I had heavily cut back some laurels, and raked the entire area before whacking the ivy with the bush cutter, poor hedgly was alseep in a divit in the ground, run him up to the local rspca, they called today saying his injuries where too severe and they had to put him down 😕 absolutely gutted. The vet preceded to say hedgehogs are having a tough time with the changing climate and temperatures, got me thinking - had been two years since id seen a hedgehog.

[bobt]

we had one under the carport last night, huge brute it was.

[steve 88]

I haven't seen one in a few years , lovely little critters, poor little sod .

[GingerCat]

I could do with a few in my garden.

[Mice!]

There was a lass doing a study couple of weeks back in the woods at back of us, using corrugated plastic? Making a triangle then using something to catch footprints. It was hedgehogs she was looking for but not sure how she got on.

[Scully]

A customer of mine and me tried to feed one on Sunday with some liquid concoction she'd made. She eventually took it to some local hedgehog hospital.

Edited May 16, 2017 by Scully

[arm3000gt]

I guess I'm lucky then. I had one hibernate in my garden over the winter. Not in the purchased hedgehog house I might add. I feed it a few nights a week with meal worms and cat food. I even raised the gate a few inches so it can get in and out easier.

[Me matt]

Conservation is always at the forefront of any work I do, ive saved bees nests, stag bettle lava & often re-create habitats for anything I disturb during works. Didsapointed at myself for this one 😡 I will be putting some hedgehog suitable dwellings in place and informing the clients of their whereabouts.

[Me matt]

I guess I'm lucky then. I had one hibernate in my garden over the winter. Not in the purchased hedgehog house I might add. I feed it a few nights a week with meal worms and cat food. I even raised the gate a few inches so it can get in and out easier.

Bless ya- their plight is great & I am sure it appreciates all you do & benefits greatly.

[arm3000gt]

Conservation is always at the forefront of any work I do, ive saved bees nests, stag bettle lava & often re-create habitats for anything I disturb during works. Didsapointed at myself for this one I will be putting some hedgehog suitable dwellings in place and informing the clients of their whereabouts.

Don't beat yourself up about it. Accidents happen, you made an attempt to save it. There is nothing more that you could do.

[saddler]

Get on the Hedgehog Street website.

 

Loads of good info on there on how to promote healthy environments & how to add features to the garden that will assist their activities.

 

Accidents happen. You did right by it trying to get the injury treated.

Wish I could stop them being hit by cars on the roads around here....poor things have no luck at times & are great characters.

[four-wheel-drive]

I am putting a new little pond in my garden had one years ago but found when I put some fish in it after a time it would need cleaning out so this one will not have fish in it but I do worry if I put some frogsporn in it you then get small frogs in the borders.

 

a couple of years ago I was striming my front grass edges and I just spotted a small brown frog/toad it was only about 40mm in size I could have killed it so simply I just thank god that I spotted it and put it in a glass with a cover on it until I finished the grass then let it go.

[steve_b_wales]

If you are feeding Hedgehogs, don't give them milk, bread or cat food containing fish, or meat in gravy. Dried mealworms, crushed peanuts and sunflower hearts are suitable for them.Dog/Cat food containing Chicken in jelly (not gravy) is very favourable with them. It's also important to leave a bowl of water for them too.

[Sha Bu Le]

 

 

Found this little fellow wandering along the gutter in our road a while back. Picked him up (would have been a tad squashed if I had not) and relocated him to the back garden. Lots of bushes, snails, slugs and water. Plus plenty of small holes out into the cemmy.

[Muddy Funker]

That's a shame, you didn't mean it though don't feel bad.

[Me matt]

Thanks for all the advice and commemts 👍 I will type something up for the client so they are aware of the incident & the location of the two hog houses I have orded, gardens a good half acre with no fencing only mature hedging around boundaries so its easily accessible. We have just won the annual maintenance conrtact so I will be keeping an eye out for signs of activity.

[paulnix]

The vet preceded to say hedgehogs are having a tough time with the changing climate and temperatures, got me thinking - had been two years since id seen a hedgehog.

 

I bet he didn't mention the badgers eating them though.....

[Fisheruk]

Got them in our garden.

[old'un]

 

I bet he didn't mention the badgers eating them though.....

As you say Badgers do kill a lot of hedgehogs but also rabbits, ground nesting birds/eggs, chicks, wasps and bee nests, in fact if they can catch it Badgers will eat almost anything.

[four-wheel-drive]

As you say Badgers do kill a lot of hedgehogs but also rabbits, ground nesting birds/eggs, chicks, wasps and bee nests, in fact if they can catch it Badgers will eat almost anything.

Do not forget our traveling friends wrap them in mud and put them in the fire to boil to death then eat them they say that they are quite tasty not that I could eat a hole one.

[four-wheel-drive]

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Found this little fellow wandering along the gutter in our road a while back. Picked him up (would have been a tad squashed if I had not) and relocated him to the back garden. Lots of bushes, snails, slugs and water. Plus plenty of small holes out into the cemmy.

That is a bit risky picking one up without gloves on as the wild ones tend to have lots of fleas and bungs on them I have picked them up in the past but put my leather gardening gloves on to do it.

 

Had dogs that have tried to bite them only small JR size dogs and they tend to end up with bloody faces and not doing much harm to the hedghog made me laugh to see the dog with little pogs all over its nose that is where to leather gloves came it to move the hedghog to safety the other side of the garden fence.

Edited May 17, 2017 by four-wheel-drive

[scolopax]

Gardens can be death traps for hedgehogs, garden ponds with steep sides and also garden netting both account for many.

[Sha Bu Le]

That is a bit risky picking one up without gloves on as the wild ones tend to have lots of fleas and bungs on them I have picked them up in the past but put my leather gardening gloves on to do it.

 

Had dogs that have tried to bite them only small JR size dogs and they tend to end up with bloody faces and not doing much harm to the hedghog made me laugh to see the dog with little pogs all over its nose that is where to leather gloves came it to move the hedghog to safety the other side of the garden fence.

You are quite right 4WD however needs must, he was around 300 yards from my house and our road gets busy. Quite a few drivers and bikers who don't give a rats are up and down all the time. In the 4-6 minutes it took to get gloves he could have been well squished.

[Mice!]

This one is fine, got caught in the cage trap this morning.

[yod dropper]

We had one doing a regular circuit a couple of years back but I've not seen one since though I see a few scats from time to time. One evening it came up the garden as usual and sniffed and butted my shoe for some while; quite a treat. Prior to that the terrier would go mental after one, the noise the hedgehog made had to be heard to be believed. The first time, I ran outside as I thought something really serious had happened to someone or something. I'm afraid that modern gardening doesn't really do them any favours what with tidiness and impassible solid concrete gravel boards, the odd gap here and there would work wonders.