Pets

[grey-beard]

Love hedgies, see so many of them when I'm out night riding. One was kind of delirious in the middle of the road a while back and I had to act as a traffic stop, guiding it back to the gardens that it came from.

I had to do something similar a while back, I came across one early one morning on the way to work, it seemed to be having a nap in the middle of the trail, I stopped and put him into the undergrowth out of harms way.

 

[Gtpulse]

Not a pet as such, but the garden has become a bit of a hedgehog super-highway. This little dude and, sometimes, some of its mates stop by for a bowl of nosh each night (non-fish cat food). They're noisy eaters!
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During the winter, it hibernated in the hedgehog house I made out of wood from an old bed and tucked away in a sheltered corner of the garden.
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Twin berth, but to judge from the hay and leaves I shoved in there last autumn, only one hog hibernated in it for the winter. (By design, the areas the hedgehog comes into contact with are not painted.) The tunnelled entrance is so that the cats cannot disturb it when it's hibernating.
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Love hedgehogs! We’ve got what I assume is a family living under a hedge in the garden. They creep out just after dusk and peer at us from behind the water butt before coming out and checking what we’ve put down for them. When you start to look around the garden there’s signs everywhere! We often have cone shaped gaps in the mulch around the hostas we used to think was the birds but is from the shape of their hedgehog head rooting side to side!

Mealworms on the menu below, they love them.

 

[CassidyAce]

Love hedgehogs! We’ve got what I assume is a family living under a hedge in the garden. They creep out just after dusk and peer at us from behind the water butt before coming out and checking what we’ve put down for them. When you start to look around the garden there’s signs everywhere! We often have cone shaped gaps in the mulch around the hostas we used to think was the birds but is from the shape of their hedgehog head rooting side to side!

Mealworms on the menu below, they love them.

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Cool! I'll have to try the meal worms. I don't think we have a family living here but we do have multiple hedgehogs passing through. In fact, one night in the summer, we heard screaming from the back garden, went out to have a look, and it was a young hedgehog, curled up and only about the size of a cricket ball. They scream when they're scared, and this one had another of our regular visitors, a fox, standing over it, so it was no wonder it was frightened. Once the cats and I went out to investigate, the fox scarpered and the baby was saved.

Strangely enough, the cats are unintentional benefactors to the hedgehogs: they're not interested in the hedgehogs themselves but, as far as other wildlife are concerned, they're thugs, and the fox wisely keeps its distance from them—unsurprisingly, given that the cats have chased and pounced at the foxes. When they can be bothered...

Here's the fox, about to take food directly out of Mrs Ace's hand:

 

[Gtpulse]

Cool! I'll have to try the meal worms. I don't think we have a family living here but we do have multiple hedgehogs passing through. In fact, one night in the summer, we heard screaming from the back garden, went out to have a look, and it was a young hedgehog, curled up and only about the size of a cricket ball. They scream when they're scared, and this one had another of our regular visitors, a fox, standing over it, so it was no wonder it was frightened. Once the cats and I went out to investigate, the fox scarpered and the baby was saved.

Strangely enough, the cats are unintentional benefactors to the hedgehogs: they're not interested in the hedgehogs themselves but, as far as other wildlife are concerned, they're thugs, and the fox wisely keeps its distance from them—unsurprisingly, given that the cats have chased and pounced at the foxes. When they can be bothered...

Here's the fox, about to take food directly out of Mrs Ace's hand:
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Well I’m assuming they are a family! Two big ones and a little one usually come out. Summers evening you can hear them snuffling around. We’ve left fence gaps for their super-highway, they certainly get around.


Basil Fox and his family used to be regular visitors a few years ago but sadly the bike shop nextdoor got rid of their storage containers under which the foxes were living. That and our cat would regularly see them off. He was a lot more timid than your visitor, no chance of hand feeding him.

 

[Johnboy]

Here are the little devils that live at the bottom of my garden. Make sure the sound is up so you can enjoy the noise. The four young ones have moved out now, so I only have the two adults left.

I forgot to mention, they don't seem to have any problems from the local cats!

 

[The History Man]

Changeable up here. Brian is not yet coordinated

 

[The History Man]

Well I’m assuming they are a family! Two big ones and a little one usually come out. Summers evening you can hear them snuffling around. We’ve left fence gaps for their super-highway, they certainly get around.


Basil Fox and his family used to be regular visitors a few years ago but sadly the bike shop nextdoor got rid of their storage containers under which the foxes were living. That and our cat would regularly see them off. He was a lot more timid than your visitor, no chance of hand feeding him.
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Who’s the balding guy on the left?

 

[Gtpulse]

Who’s the balding guy on the left?

To be fair, that’s not very far from being a true likeness of me! It’s actually the belly of a chimenea.

 

[Madmax1993]

We said goodbye to this boy, Murphy in April. He just made it to his 15th birthday but had to be put down due to a tumour in his nose.



This is Murphy's brother Max, living his best senior life.

 

[tintin40]

Cats are wonderful.