Detering hedgehogs

Emstick14

Every day I have LOADS of hedgehog poo in my garden, which is really yukky especially as I have a young daughter (5) who runs round the garden with no shoes on alot of the time.

Is there any way I can stop them coming in?

Theyu have already knocked over one of my plants and nibbled at my newly grown strawberry!!!!

Larumbelle

Emstick14 wrote: »

Every day I have LOADS of hedgehog poo in my garden, which is really yukky especially as I have a young daughter (5) who runs round the garden with no shoes on alot of the time.

Is there any way I can stop them coming in?

Theyu have already knocked over one of my plants and nibbled at my newly grown strawberry!!!!

I can't BELIEVE you want to deter your hedgehogs! They are the best slug eaters in the world! Trust me, a little poo is a small price to pay. Although I've never known their quantities of poo to cause a problem? I'd be surprised if the hedgehog is responsible for the strawberry-munching, too.

Emstick14

As for the poo, its everywhere they leave a trail of long slimy poo.

I was hoping its the hedgehog that has been eating the strawberries as it was over hanging the pot and has been nibbled at the bottom.

I have nothing against hedgehogs but they poo WAY too much!!

wayne1983

I have a hedgehog house, but no resident yet. They are really good for the garden, wish we could get some.:beer:

annie123

Emstick14 wrote: »

Is there any way I can stop them coming in?

Yes, give them to me

My previous home had loads of them, mum and babies, never had any poo, knocking over pots problems.
Are you sure it's the hedgehogs?, sounds more like foxes to me.

Emstick14

I have just googled hedgehog and fox poo haha and they look similarish but I would be surprised to see a fox in our small enclosed garden?? Plus its like a trail of where it goes, so I would guess a slower moving animal, unless the fox has a few bowel problems:rotfl:

wayne1983

Lets be honest though, you get cat muck in the gardens and all they do is try and go for birds! Id say the benefits of hoggy outweighs the problems he causes.
And as mentioned before, keeps a lot of baddies out of the garden!:beer:

Emstick14

wayne1983 wrote: »

Lets be honest though, you get cat muck in the gardens and all they do is try and go for birds! Id say the benefits of hoggy outweighs the problems he causes.
And as mentioned before, keeps a lot of baddies out of the garden!:beer:

Cats don't seem to come in our garden, like I said its small and very awkward to get to. The hedgehogs are causing more problems, hence posting on here ha, the poo is all over the place.

annie123

Emstick14 wrote: »

I have just googled hedgehog and fox poo haha and they look similarish but I would be surprised to see a fox in our small enclosed garden?? Plus its like a trail of where it goes, so I would guess a slower moving animal, unless the fox has a few bowel problems:rotfl:

I would guess more likely to be a fox then, depending on how enclosed your garden is. Foxes walk the same trail, can jump 6' fence with no problems and 'mark' spots around gardens as theirs if there are others in the same patch.
My garden is 12 wide and 25' long and has plenty of foxes,...would rather have hedgehogs

Hedgehogs like to have space to roam, averaging 12 'average' size gardens, up and down the street basically.

You could pop out with a torch at nights and see if you can hear hedgehogs, can miss them, sounds like a small/quiet grunting pig.

Never found a way to keep out foxes.

laurel7172

Hedgehogs are mostly prickles-if you've ever picked one up you'll know they weigh next to nothing. So unless it was a very small pot, it's unlikely to be a hedgehog.

RHYSDAD

I think we have a resident hedgehog. I haven't seen a slug this year but i couldn't say that about last year.....