Human influence on our Wildes x

Human influence

A European hedgehog found in Ireland.
As with most small mammals living around humans, cars pose a great threat to hedgehogs. Many are run over as they attempt to cross roadways.

In 2006, McDonald's changed the design of their McFlurry containers to be more hedgehog-friendly.[14] Previously, hedgehogs would get their heads stuck in the container as they tried to lick the remaining food from inside the cup. Then, being unable to get out, they would starve to death. Domesticated hedgehogs display this behavior by getting their head stuck in tubes (commonly, lavatory paper tubes) and walking around with the tube on their head. Hedgehog owners often refer to this as "tubing" and promote the behavior by supplying clean tubes. Most owners are considerate enough, however, to cut the tubes lengthwise so as to prevent the hedgehog from remaining trapped against their will. Curiously though, some will still knowingly get themselves stuck for a few hours

Many an article on McDonalds and Post Office and our wildies can be found on the net and rightly so - everything we drop can have a devastating effect on our wild life - we should be looking after them x

Very much so Helen x

It's noce to see that some thought has been put into the re-developing of these products now though. Good on McDonald's eh?!

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They are a massive company least they could do lol x

Yes I hate people that litter and then animals get all caught up in it.

I think the worse thing i have seen is a bird caught up with a beer can holder around its neck ... it was soo tight the bird died x