r/hoggies

The one next to the wall had some food earlier on so it didn't go without

Last night - we knew we had one friend, but our 10pm visit to our garden gave us a nice surprise. We have a long hedge down the side of our garden, so food one end, a house if they need it the other as I’ve read they don’t want food near bed. Couple of water bowls out too.

It was dark, using low light strip and iPhone doing its low light thing.

She's been coming out about an hour before dusk for a week or so. The first time I was worried but we gave her wet (cat) food, in case she was dehydrated, she ate hungrily & seemed healthy. The second time, again I was a little concerned but she ate happily & I decided she must be nursing. I look for her every evening now & she knows I'm giving her food. She must go back to the nest, feed the hoglets & I have seen the first of the babies out & about when I put food, dry & wet, out just before it's completely dark, for the last couple of nights.

We have plenty of water dishes around the garden & this year, as it's so dry, I put wet food out as well, my usual routine was just dry food.

I think she's the female baby (Crumb) from last year, as she's less nervous of me than her Mum (Biscuit).

I feel so fortunate to have these incredible creatures in the garden. The other evening we had 4 adults - possibly previous generations returning to where they know there is food & water & a completely obsessed human.

Last pic, one of the cats paying no attention to the fact that there's cat food down, being eaten by a hedgehog.

It was during the heatwave 21:00 he was circling on a busy road so we took him back to our garden and made him a drink and some food we let him back out to roam god speed

Finally managed to capture three visitors on camera. No huffing and no aggro this time so I suspect these might all be females.

We've had 2 hedgehogs in our back garden over the course of the last 2 nights...one we believe to be a male & the other a female (this is based purely on their size so I could be completely wrong)

We've put out some catfood which we soaked in water in a small bowl for them last night...this morning half of it had been eaten.

We also have a large water bowl out in the garden as well.

So happy to of finally seen one after so long!!

I definitely disturbed its breakfast because of the flash but it came by just before half 4 🥰

Big Frank Takes a drink and washes his feet

J'ai des hérissons qui viennent manger les croquettes, des fois il est seul des fois avec sa famille de 3 bébés et 1 femelle, ce soir il est venu boire tout seul. Dès que j'ai allumé le flash du phone, il est parti en courant 🦔🦔🦔🦔

They’re stored out of the way now. I’d bought my partner a hedgehog house to try and entice one because she loves them. Put him in there to recover but he hasn’t used it since. I’m going to put it deeper in the hedge. That was in June. There’s one visiting every night to eat what falls from the bird table suet, peanuts and dried mealworms. I’ve put water down.

South African living in the UK for 6 years, and this is the second hedgehog I have ever seen. The level of excite! Gave him/her some mealworms but now I believe they’re not good for them 😢 Legit thought it was a snack of choice. Anyway, hope he/she is ok. I am checking the window every 5 mins to see if they’re back with friends. 🦔

This is big Frank, too lazy to move.

Yes the Hedgehog family and the Cat family co-exist together just fine, the hedgehogs tend to come out later at night when the cats are asleep, but the cats do sometimes get their midnight munchies and sometimes they’ll eat together!

So nice to find this community and see so many thriving hoggies.

As many of you I'm sure are aware, in the UK it is reported that the hedgehog population has fallen from 35m in the 1950s to around 800k today. Due to urban development and climate change, ofc. You're doing gods work!!

Here are some pictures of Timmy and Timmy Snr/Mumma (?) who I have been looking after this summer 🥲🥹 We've seen all 3 together (Ma, Pa and Timmy) but have been unable to capture all 3 at once on camera so far.

So we have been leaving a bit of cat food outside (it started originally for our cat) and ever since then every night like at least 3 hedgehogs come to sample the buffet. I went outside to take a closer look and after some time he just kept eating. Is it normal for them to get this comfortable? (I WILL NEVER TOUCH OR TRY TO BE IN A DISTANCE THEY CAN TOUCH ME don’t worry 😅) But I do enjoy the adorable company.