Hedgehog hibernation boxes

[Guest guest]

Now I remember (perhaps more than a year ago) discussion about the

above. Does anyone know where I can get one?

Very sadly a couple of weekends ago I fished a drowned *baby* hedgehog

out of our pond. :-(

I never even knew we had hedgehogs visiting the garden! I would love

to encourage them, now I have made the pond safer.

phine

(Mum to 4 & Ben 3, Cambridge NCT)

[Guest guest]

Wigglywigglers have one. Not cheap, though, at £25!

http://www.wormshop.co.uk/FMPro

Lesley

SAHM to four

Chair, Royal Deeside NCT

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From: " phine

> Now I remember (perhaps more than a year ago) discussion about the

> above. Does anyone know where I can get one?

>

> Very sadly a couple of weekends ago I fished a drowned *baby* hedgehog

> out of our pond. :-(

> I never even knew we had hedgehogs visiting the garden! I would love

> to encourage them, now I have made the pond safer.

[Guest guest]

>Now I remember (perhaps more than a year ago) discussion about the

>above. Does anyone know where I can get one?

>

>Very sadly a couple of weekends ago I fished a drowned *baby* hedgehog

>out of our pond. :-(

>I never even knew we had hedgehogs visiting the garden! I would love

>to encourage them, now I have made the pond safer.

>

>phine

>(Mum to 4 & Ben 3, Cambridge NCT)

The British Hedgehog Preservation Society has a Hogalogue of

hedgehoggy items including hibernation boxes - can't make the link to

their website work though. Their address is BHPS, Knowbury House,

Knowbury, Ludlow, Shropshire. Probably have umpteen editions of said

Hogalogue lurking around. (Cheap and informative membership too)

www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk has an on-line shop and they have one -

cheaper than the BHPS one I *think*

In case you don't know ('cos some people at the RSPCA don't) bread

and milk is not at all good for them - gives them diarrhoea. They do

like dog food, though you can buy tins of 'Spike's Dinner' from some

pet places now.

*****SKIP WHAT FOLLOWS IF SENSITIVE OR EATING OR HOPING TO****

Had a *very* bad experience with a sick hedgehog once which involved maggots.

Ex-DH picked hedgehog to take it to the vet and it split right down

the side - full of maggots. Not surprisingly the only thing the vet

could do was to put her to sleep. They are *so* stoical - and *so*

prone to infected and infested wounds.

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jennifer@...

Vaudin