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Home Forums Hedgehog signs and sightings Looks like I’ll have to intervene! Reply To: Looks like I’ll have to intervene!

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Hello everyone, so good to read all your posts and situations. I am first year devotee and am learning all the time. There are so many questions that I have and nowhere to turn. I thought I had a very pregnant female in September but my local rescue centre told me it was a male! I worry that such a large protruberance may have been something nasty. I have two houses and two feeder stations. One hog has hibernated in one house but the other, a male, is still foraging and pottering but does go into the other house. Being in Cornwall maybe the hogs do not hibernate as early as those further up country. My houses have plenty of dry straw in them but I wonder if it helps to clad the houses on the outside during very cold winter time.
It is an obsession – they are so adorable and I feel so privileged to have them in my garden. I did read that some hog foods sold are not always good for them and they like apples and vegetables too. Would one cut them up into little pieces? Such a learning curve and I love it. My friends refer to me as Mrs Tiggywinkle and they, too, love to see the videos. Safe winter little hedgegogs.

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