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Apparently it’s a privilege to have....

Hedgehog and hoglets in your garden. Meet Mrs piggy, Tom, !!!!!!, and Harry. Hand fed so wild pets...








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  • Soot2006
    Soot2006 Posts: 2,184 Forumite
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    It is indeed. thanks for sharing! It's been a while since we had any in our garden despite trying to make it welcoming in winter and summer.

    I do have THREE baby seagulls on my tiny flat roof. I'm not sure it's a privilege though haha.
  • HampshireH
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    How lovely. We used to get nightly visitors as our people locally have them resident in their garden. Noisy though!
  • MovingForwards
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    @Soot2006 I had two following me round the garden last year, took a while for the parents to realise I wasn't going to harm them. Sadly only one made it.

    This year I've one pet gull and again I'm building trust with the parents. 

    Resisting the urge to feed / water it, to ensure survival, but have to let nature run its course.
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  • Silvertabby
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    Lovely little family!  Our hedgies know that we put (cat) food and water out for them every night, but they only seem to have a couple of hoglets.


  • SevenOfNine
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    How sweet, what a privilege to see them. My friend has a hog house with a night camera in it, assembled after she'd had a few hog visits to her garden, she's hooked.  We have a camera blue tit box, over the years have loved watching parents raise their little ones, though always a few lost, such is nature. 
    Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
  • Thumbs_Up
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    edited 11 July 2022 at 12:45PM

    Absolute joy to have wild animals trusting you. Tempting as it is to pet them I won’t touch them, don’t want them to loose that instinct for survival. Feed them twice a day with cat biscuits dropped in front of their noses, with water nearby. Did a google search so no bread, milk, or mealworms.






  • Thumbs_Up
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    Looks like Mrs piggy didn’t come home last night. The young one’s have been a bit defensive today, not looking good. Hope she hasn’t dumped them on me.






  • Thumbs_Up
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    She is back, phew.






  • fire**fly
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    good to hear Mrs piggys back  :) we have a family of hedgies living at bottom of the garden & often see/hear them in the early hours of the morning. we also have a badger & her young one visit each night along with the foxes. we also put biscuits/scraps out for them it's a joy to watch them  :)
    please be a responsible pet owner & spay/neuter your pets, too many strays & not enough homes for them sadly. k2u58ioz4c8e.png




  • powerspowers
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    Awwww!! Thanks for sharing
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