Do you have hedgehogs visit your garden, app they will become extinct by 2025

I’d like a little door in my fence but can you promise that all the baby rabbits would not avail themselves of the opportunity to visit?

Most years we've had at least one hedgehog in the garden...I leave the area behind the wildlife pond pretty much to nature..also pile leaves&twigs up there at the back.. love hedgehogs...hope we don't lose them....

When we lived in France one winter found a hedgehog sleeping peacefully in an old blanket that I'd used to line the under stairs space.
I left her/him, don't know where it went.
Around there they were killed mostly by being run over crossing the road.

Pam not sure about that....(just don't leave them the key under the plant pot)

I would like Brian May to bring his hedgehogs along.
He still has a lot of charm as well y

Not a welly.

2025? That’s hardly likely.
A huge one visits our garden, it’s like a football.We had one just like it about ten years ago, and it used to steal the cats food.

Make a feeding station by using a large lidded plastic box. Cut a 5"×5" hole on one side. Edge hole with duct tape. Place cat food (meat not fish and in jelly) inside leave plenty of water. Not mealworms as they cause deformities in hogs. To prevent cats poking paws into feed box make a tunnel either with piping or bricks.

We had what seemed to be a family of hedgehogs for the first three years we were here , noisy little whatsits but welcome, haven’t seen one since and no sign of hedgehog poo. No idea why as nothing has changed.

I wish I had hedgehogs and rabbits......we only have birds?

Yes we've always had Hedgehogs, for as many years as I can remember and we have a family now who've grown so fast in the last few weeks. I saw them tonight just after dark out on bark covered borders under the shrubs an trees.... We have 4 shallow water trays outside for them in the borders, and when there's been no rain so no ready easy food from the dry earth , we put out hedgehog food, which sometimes they gobble up in it's entirety immediately , and other nights they leave alone.. Tonight they've drunk some water but left the pellets alone..
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I haven't seen a hedgehog for years. We have left a gap under the fence just in case but no sign of any visitors yet

I saw a hedgehog in my front garden on Saturday evening, which thrilled me as I haven't seen one for a few years. It was heading towards the top of the garden where my compost heap is and all the shady plants (ferns, hostas etc.)

We have hedgehogs and hedgehog holes between many of our gardens down our avenue. We leave out hedgehog food and something eats it.

I saw a really large hedgehog on my patio last night (it had climbed up 3 steps) so gave it some cat food (I've got a cat so have always got lots in). I'll be feeding it every night from now on.

We never get them in our garden because they don't like fenland soil.

they need water too when weather hot and dry.
One thing that really helps them is to create corridors- their enemy is hard fencing- as they can't get in and out- so if you have such fencing, a small opening cut into the fence- if possible near vegetation, is grand. And to encourage all your neighbours to do the same.

I've not seen a hedgehog here for years, but the place was awash with them when I was a child/teen.

We have a regular in our garden , he met Sam the dog unexpectedly the other evening - both were horrified and agreed never to do that again .

We have quite a few which we feed each evening with hedgehog mix - cat food a no go as we have cats.
I bought a hedgehog house which keeps their food dry but has never been used to hibernate probably because we back on to woodland. I feel lucky to have them plus the fact they keep the slug population down !

It doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't any just because you don't see them. They are nocturnal creatures.
I found one trying to hibernate some years ago. I occasionally see them dead on the road but we have badgers nearby and I was told that badgers skin hedgehogs and eat them so it's unlikely we'd have both!

We get them regularly but we do live in the middle of no where. One's been found under some metal sheeting lying up against the shed. They like wood piles too.

Catch a few slugs. They love them.

Hedgehogs have 2 main predators, in urban areas cars and in rural areas badgers. Badgers have to eat and their diet consists of worms, insects, eggs of ground nesting birds and any small animal that is slower than them. Hedgehogs are easy prey to those powerful front claws.