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Helping Hedgehogs |
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Hedgehog Hazards (5) |
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The Natural Hedgehog - Lenni Sykes & Jane Durrant (Gaia Books Ltd) |
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Click on picture to order direct from the Welsh Hedgehog Hospital. |
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Other examples of hazards that hedgehogs face are:- |
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Lobster pots, cattle/livestock drinking troughs, breeze blocks, kerbing with holes in and sunken water tanks. |
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Please visit the Welsh Hedgehog Hospital website for more details and pictures. |
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Badgers are the hedgehogs only real natural predator although foxes will take injured and young hedgehogs. Baby hedgehogs are vulnerable to attack from stoats and weasels. |
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Terrier dogs and other similar dogs can cause injuries to hedgehogs, especially when disturbing a nest of young. |
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Hedgehogs get heatstroke, too. And, like us, they like plenty of water in hot weather. So please leave a tip-over proof bowl of water in a cool place for your garden hedgehogs. Remember a hedgehog out in the sunshine is a hedgehog in trouble. It is likely to be suffering from heatstroke, or dehydration, or both. Take it somewhere cool straight away, and to a vet or hedgehog carer as soon as possible. |
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If you have an empty paddling pool or child’s sandpit please turn it upside down when not in use. Or store it someplace where hedgehogs are not likely to fall into it. |
