Do:-
Keep a continuous supply of drinking water in your garden in shallow saucers.
Provide escape routes from garden ponds – chicken wire at one end and steps the other.
Keep rubbish sacks tied during the week. Hedgehogs often climb in a get taken away with the rubbish.
Check sheds/garages and greenhouses for hedgehogs before closing the door
Move garden refuse a few feet before burning or forking. A pile of dead leaves etc. may well have a sleeping hedgehog inside.
Cover all drains – this will protect your drainage system as well as hedgehogs.
Cut away or roll up the bottom of any netting in the garden. Climbing plants don’t need this but hedgehogs can easily get caught up and badly injured in it.
Leave babies in nests well alone and contact your local carer for advice.
Contact your local carer when you are unsure of what to do.
Do not:-
Ever give cow’s milk or bread – it can cause illness and death in hedgehogs.
Use slug pellets – hedgehogs will take care of the slugs
Move hedgehogs unnecessarily or take them home for your garden if there is nothing wrong with them. There is also a risk that if a female she may well have a litter somewhere.
Remove netting from a hedgehog that has been caught up. Phone us or a vet immediately.
Worry about hedgehog fleas. They are a different variety from dog or cat fleas and will not live on family pets.
Attempt to care for a wild hedgehog yourself, these little mammals require specialist care when injured, poorly or orphaned.
Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:44 am
