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?

Feed ’em. Lovely fellows. Dogfood IIRC

Sweeeeeeeet ! Feed them, dogfood and milk (separately…)

NO MILK!

Dogfood and water

Deffo not milk, VERY bad for them…

According to hedgehog rescue site.

Double post weirdness…

Feed ’em and encourage them to stay. Fantastic little creatures.

Hedge hogs are insectivores. Cat/dog food is acceptable, but no milk please!

Only Chow Mein, anything else is dangerous.

P.S. Why don’t they just share the hedge?

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)

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..

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.

We are talking about supplemental feeding, Ernie. Their natural crunchy diet would, no doubt, clean their their relatively tiny teeth.

Give them dry cat/dog food then, but not tinned imo.

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!