Bless those Brits
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wrote on 12 Jan 2025, 00:42 last edited by
The Hidden World of ‘Hedgehog Highways’
As urbanization fragments the animals’ habitat, homeowners across the UK are creating a network of garden pathways just for them.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/hedgehog-highways-conservation-uk/?utm_placement=newsletter
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wrote on 12 Jan 2025, 14:15 last edited by AndyD 1 Dec 2025, 14:15
We see hedgehogs in the garden late evening, and even in winter(occasionally) in daylight at the edges of fields, when food must be scarcer and they are normally hibernating.
They appear sweet little things, children are always fascinated by them.
Our government plans 1.5million new houses in the next 5years; given the size of the UK this build will inevitably affect a lot of our wildlife.
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wrote on 12 Jan 2025, 14:53 last edited by
My neighbor had a little hedgehog as a pet. She said they had been banned in CA due to concerns about crop damage, but she kept him anyway.
Sweet little animal - behaved like a mellow hamster.
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wrote on 12 Jan 2025, 18:02 last edited by
Crop damage? Are we talking about the same animal !
They eat beetles and worms and it's hard to imagine them decimating a crop of wheat any more than a harvest mouse. -
Crop damage? Are we talking about the same animal !
They eat beetles and worms and it's hard to imagine them decimating a crop of wheat any more than a harvest mouse.wrote on 12 Jan 2025, 18:39 last edited by@AndyD said in Bless those Brits:
Crop damage? Are we talking about the same animal !
Maybe the British variety is less gluttonous?
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wrote on 12 Jan 2025, 19:01 last edited by
This is quite interesting.
Ours are carnivores, eating millipedes, centipedes, beetles and help farmers by eating pests. They curl up in piles of leaves and also burrow to sleep.
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wrote on 12 Jan 2025, 19:19 last edited by
Seems they are regarded as an invasive species that could affect the indigenous fauna.
Bit like our rabbits and grey squirrels.I was brought up liking hedgehogs as they're good for the garden, but told they're prone to be flea ridden.
The idea of keeping such a wild, spikey animal as a pet (and microchipped like a dog) is rather strange to me. -
wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 00:22 last edited by
My wife said it was a Pygmy hedgehog and I have it confused with a ferret.
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 00:25 last edited by
Ha! I was right! Banned in CA because they can transmit diseases.
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 04:45 last edited by
According to one website, CA allows camels, zebras, bison, spiders, most lizards, most birds including ostriches(!) as pets.
Thats basically the start of a list of animals I wouldn't want in my house
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 17:25 last edited by
Very British of them.
