11-12-2010, 05:03 PM
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Hedgehog in the snow
My smallest Jack Russell (Lilly)is deaf.She is spoiled and very smart.But she can smell hedgehog in the middle of the night a mile off.Last week in the coldest night(3.30a.m) of the bad weather she woke me and insisted on taking a turn in the garden. And returned with a large hedgehog which she deposited on the living room carpet.
So I got my gardering gloves and returned our little visitor back into the garden.When the cold hit me I realised hedgehogs should be in hibernation. I couldn't go back to my warm bed leaving this little thing to freeze.
I gave the hedghog a bed of fresh hay, a supper of cat food and some warm milk, and kept it untill the weather warmed snug in a box.
So last night I returned the beastie to the wild. Put the box out in the garden with it's door open.
4.30 a.m this morning we had an encore.
Happy days
11-12-2010, 09:47 PM
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Any hedgehog which is mad enough to enter our property will almost inevitably end up as a football with our two dogs
They make such a noise when they find one that I know what's going on.OH insists that I go outside and rescue the little creature. This involves me in coaxing it onto a spade and walking half a mile down the road to deposit it in the undergrowth near the creek. The last time I did this was 5:30 in the morning and I only had time to put on my dressing gown
luckily only our local farmer went down the road and he probably thought 'Oh it's just that crazy English man' 
12-12-2010, 12:26 PM
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Re: Hedgehog in the snow
Originally Posted by dandysmom
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Losos, the mental picture that calls up ... 
Seriously. how kind of you.
Half a mile might seem like a bit far but the first year we were here I used to put them just outside the fence, guess what.............the next day they were back in the garden and the dogs were playing football again somehow I don't think hedgehogs are the brains of the animal world
13-12-2010, 02:14 PM
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Lovely stories here. Now I really want a hedgehog or two in my garden, have done for years and cannot coax one to come and live here. So does my neighbour and we have made a couple of hedgehog size holes in our fences so they could go about their travels. Has anyone any hints for me?13-12-2010, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by maryl
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Lovely stories here. Now I really want a hedgehog or two in my garden, have done for years and cannot coax one to come and live here. So does my neighbour and we have made a couple of hedgehog size holes in our fences so they could go about their travels. Has anyone any hints for me?
http://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/i...g_for_my_g.htm
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