Hi Davelees215
I agree the hedgehogs will not mind the cats. The only problem might arise if the neighbour was planning on feeding the hogs – which sounds unlikely – but there are other ways of keeping the cats away from hog food. The important thing is that the hogs have access to as many gardens as possible. Blocking them off from your garden is a backward step. If they are not feeding the hogs, there would be nothing to encourage the cats in over night. Maybe you could suggest that a hog hole had a little ‘gate’, of some kind, on it which could stop cats during the day, when the birds are around, but be opened at night – maybe you could volunteer to man the hog gate.
8 foot fence doesn’t even sound that good for birds, either. (and anyway one garden is no good for birds in isolation either).
I hope you find some sort of solution. So sad for you if the hogs can no longer visit.
