Just found a pair of em in the garden, misses millhouse wants to start feeding them. What's the STW thoughts on feeding the little beggars?
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Hedgehogs. To feed or not to feed....
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Feed 'em. Lovely fellows. Dogfood IIRC
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Sweeeeeeeet ! Feed them, dogfood and milk (separately...)
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NO MILK!
Dogfood and water
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Deffo not milk, VERY bad for them...
According to hedgehog rescue site.
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Double post weirdness...
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Feed 'em and encourage them to stay. Fantastic little creatures.
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Hedge hogs are insectivores. Cat/dog food is acceptable, but no milk please!
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Only Chow Mein, anything else is dangerous.
P.S. Why don't they just share the hedge?
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If you want a laugh, this is what happened when we took one in to feed - it fell asleep with its face in the dish & started blowing bubbles in the food! (click for video)
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The two I get in the garden every night love cat biscuits, they get through 2 good handfulls easily, their water comes out of the take-away trays dotted about the garden,just seem to be the right height for them. Deffo no milk though..
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Feed them proper hedgehog food :
http://www.gardenbird.co.uk/4Kg-Hedgehog-Food/Bird-Food/40-04-1060,default,pd.html
Hedgehogs can have very serious problems with their teeth specially if the eat cat/dog food. Their teeth are fine for their natural diet of snails, earthworms, eggs, etc, but because they don't brush their teeth, cat/dog food will foul their teeth and make them rot - which is as painful for them as it is for humans.
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We are talking about supplemental feeding, Ernie. Their natural crunchy diet would, no doubt, clean their their relatively tiny teeth.
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Give them dry cat/dog food then, but not tinned imo.
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Feed 'em. Lovely fellows. Dogfood IIRC
We get a fair few in the garden and they make very good dogfood, its a bit of a pain getting the spines out before cooking them but the dogs love the taste. Makes a nice change from winalot too!
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