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There's nothing #scary about being prepared - so #treat yourself this #Halloween & shop the sweetest #hedgehog calendar around! Once you have hedgehog visitors, don’t trap them in your garden as a free snail killer, they need to roam and one garden won’t provide enough variety even if you give extra foods. Don’t be tempted to buy the cheap domes of wood and straw, they do look natural but in reality they let in damp and frosts. Anything with metal is no go too, as it will attract condensation. A wooden box with a decent floor, a roof and a tunnel is ideal. There are also some great eco-friendly nest boxes too. Pop in some dust-free hay or shredded newspaper and leave some bedding lying around so the hog can choose what they want to sleep in. Desert Hedgehog Desert Hedgehog (Image Credit: Chen Ein-Dor, Wikimedia Commons CC SA 4.0 International)

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Mealworms are like sweets for hogs. They love them without exception, but they are devoid of any useful nutrients, are high in phosphorous and low in calcium. Scientists have discovered hogs are getting metabolic bone disease (soft bendy bones) and loosing their teeth from the amount of mealworms they are consuming. The same goes for peanuts and sunflower seeds. Native to Central China and Manchuria, the voracious appetite of the Hugh’s hedgehog sometimes leads it to look for food during the daytime—a behavior not shared by other hedgehogs. Hedgehogs will hibernate in the cold months from around November to mid March, but the odd warm day will wake them up and they’ll be looking for food. Keep an eye on the forecast and pop some cat biscuits and fresh water outside if it’s looking warm. Recently woken hedgehogs will be extremely hungry and thirsty. Please poke around in long grass before using a cordless strimmer to give hedgehogs and other wildlife a chance to escape. Go gently using clippers first because a ball of curled spines won’t protect against a blade and hogs do like to sleep in long grass during the warmer months. 5) Bonfires

Yes they do, because their food source dries up in winter, but they need to be at least 600g in late autumn to survive a winter of hibernation. Southern White-Breasted Hedgehog 2008 Hedgehog 1020932 (Image Credit: Nevit Dilmen, Wikimedia Commons CC SA 3.0 Unported) Endemic to Southeastern India, this rare species was long thought to be extinct. Now, they can be found regularly in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Hedgehogs can bring immense pleasure and they do no damage what so ever, even an occasional hedgehog poo is so tiny you’re likely to miss it. If you feed hogs you might find hedgehog poo near the bowl because they are messy eaters and don’t mind where they relieve themselves! Milk is extremely bad for hedgehogs, in many cases it causes fatal diarrhea because they are lactose intolerant, but being hedgehogs they drink it anyway. All wildlife rescues are pleading with people to stop giving bread and milk and put out fresh water and cat biscuits instead.

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Hardboiled and scrambled eggs are high in fat but also high in protein and make a great treat from time to time. You can make them healthier by removing the yolk before serving. If you can’t physically help, consider donating to a wildlife rescue. Hedgehog rescues take in hundreds of patients each year and they get no funding. Did you know that all hedgehogs are considered exotic pets? It’s true! Some regions of the world even have bans on owning hedgehogs as pets, including the domesticated breeds. In fact, there are only four domesticated breeds of hedgehogs that can be kept as pets. You can help by leaving out cat food and fresh water each night particularly when the weather is colder, and hogs are struggling to find food. They are usually hungry bods and will munch up your offering with gusto. 2) Landscaping Native to Central Asia, the Amur hedgehog can grow up to a foot long. They are also found in South-Eastern Russia, Korea, and China.Though they bear a similar name to a domesticated hedgehog, this different species is found only in the wild. They live in the high mountain areas of India and Pakistan and are most distinguishable by their small size and mask-like face markings. You can make a big difference by creating a hedgehog highway into your garden. A 15cm x 15cm hole in the bottom of your fencing is enough to invite hogs to your insect and slug banquet. If you have concrete footers dig a tunnel beneath the concrete, use a concreate breaker or consider removing the bottom slats of your garden gate for access. Hedgehogs are generally happy and friendly chaps that don’t hurt or bite. You shouldn’t try to tame them or interfere with their lives, but they are great fun to watch and provide for. When hedgehogs visit your garden it’s a sign that you are in balance with nature and you’re doing the right things.

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Any hedgehog that weighs less than 600 grams in November isn’t likely to make it through hibernation. To help, you should weigh the hog with electronic scales and if it’s under 600g phone a rescue. They can advise on whether to bring it in for overwintering or if releasing with some supplemental feeding is a better option. 7) It is dead Hedgehog numbers are dwindling at the same rate as tiger numbers. Without change they will become endangered and possibly disappear from our communities entirely.To supplement their diet in the wild, please offer hedgehogs either a good quality meaty hedgehog food, meaty cat or dog food or dry biscuits for cats. We’ve talked about slug pellets already, so here are 9 other problems native hogs are facing in the UK. 1) The Wrong Foods This is not intended to be a full statement of all your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations. Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office. To reduce confrontations between hungry hedgehogs, try setting up multiple feeding stations in different locations around the garden, or scattering small amounts of food in grass or undergrowth so hedgehogs can forage as they would naturally.