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Hedgehogs

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tiggypiro Tue 12-Nov-13 08:24:37

In each of the past two years I have rescued a baby hedghog very late in the year. One I found in the snow under the bird table in December. Both were housed in the kitchen and both did quite well for a week or two until they succumbed to what ever baby hedgehogs do and suddenly died.
Consequently I feel that my hedgehog keeping skills are not yet honed to perfection ! Nevertheless when I saw one trotting along the side of the road yesterday I pulled up and went to get it. As I got closer I realised that I 'should have gone to Specsavers' as my 'hedgehog' was in fact a RAT !! In my defence it was sick and very hunched up but I left it to it's fate.

Would any of you rescued the rat ??

I do have hedgehogs visiting the garden in summer and when GS (then 3yrs old ) came last summer there was poo on the lawn which he still asks about!

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Flowerofthewest Thu 28-Nov-13 09:47:32

Badgers have also been known to raid graveyards shock by burrowing underneath shock shock less said the better.

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Elegran Thu 28-Nov-13 10:15:06

They don't seem to have been deliberately digging up fresh corpses though, like the resurrectionists. These were graves that had been there for hundreds of years, which were in the way when the badgers were extending their setts. Not as horrific as it sounds on reading the headlines.

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Flowerofthewest Thu 28-Nov-13 14:30:24

Nope also fresh ones. A good friend of mine is an exterminator and was asked by a Wildlife Trust to either remove or exterminate a sett of badgers who had been undermining and robbing a recent grave. The letter was sent in Welsh and red tape deemed that the instruction be in Welsh also. (Don't ask me) because of this I am not sure if it went ahead, he was still waiting for the Welsh instruction and order to be given and that was over 2 years ago.

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FlicketyB Thu 28-Nov-13 22:58:39

Worms and moles are much more effective than badgers at bringing bones to the surface in grave yards. DS and I share a passion for old churches and when we walk around the church yard we always keep an eye open for knuckle bones (hands and feet) in any mole hills or recently disturbed soil we see. No, we do not pick them up. Usually we try to tread them into the soils so that they are no longer visible.

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Flowerofthewest Fri 29-Nov-13 00:08:41

ooer, strange hobby Flickety shock smile

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FlicketyB Fri 29-Nov-13 08:55:01

But at least we rebury the dead!

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Flowerofthewest Fri 29-Nov-13 12:58:31

True true smile

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jacqui60 Fri 29-Nov-13 13:18:14

flower I like your sense of humour!
I have a resident fox, which I don't mind as he doesnt cause me any trouble, but I've only once seen a hedgehog in the garden: do you think the fox is deterring them?

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Galen Fri 29-Nov-13 13:37:27

See pictures (I hope)

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jacqui60 Fri 29-Nov-13 13:48:47

No pictures!confused

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Galen Fri 29-Nov-13 14:01:01

They're in the picture thread (or at least one is)

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jacqui60 Fri 29-Nov-13 14:05:46

Oh golly! What and where is the picture thread?! Sorry, I am new!

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Galen Fri 29-Nov-13 14:12:29

Thred titled 'old brock'

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jacqui60 Fri 29-Nov-13 14:23:10

Sorry to be such an imbecile but I don't know how to find the thread titled 'old brock' !!!

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Elegran Fri 29-Nov-13 16:07:14

Click on "forums" in blue up left there, and when you are on the page with "forum topics" you click "pictures". That gets you to all the threads where pictures are possible. ("Old Brock" is one of them)

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