Where have all the hedgehogs gone?

[carlj]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/26042006/80...hedgehogs.html

Been years since I last saw one. Let's help hog watch to find out where the hedgehogs are hiding!

[Mark43]

Originally Posted by carlj

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/26042006/80...hedgehogs.html

Been years since I last saw one. Let's help hog watch to find out where the hedgehogs are hiding!

Indeed Carl.

I had one in my garden about 2 and a bit years ago which stayed for a week or so and i haven't seen one anywhere since and i'm out and about a lot.

[arvensis]

I saw one last week where I live(In the middle of a town) but it was half 3 in the morning.

Mark

[wildone]

They are being run over. I saw 2 early monday morning, dead on the side of the road and another this morning.

[Imaginos]

There must be quite a few hedgehogs in your area then wildone. It's a density dependant effect-the more hedgehogs per mile of road, the more get run over. Time to start worrying if you don't see any squished hedgehogs (outside the winter months)

[Scarlettvegetable]

I saw a Hedgehog on Monday/Tuesday waddling down a pathway, was about half 2 though, and a couple of squished ones too

[Wild-Woman]

As I said on another post, I reckon my next door neighbour poisoned our poor old hedgehog with his poxy slug pellets. It's a wonder he doesn't take nail clippers to his lawn. Know the type I mean? Makes me laugh when the foxes c##p on his flower bed though. He gets a great big spade out, a double black sack, gloves and wrinkles his nose in disgust.
If a hedgehog comes back to my garden, there is a hedgehog house waiting for him or her.

[paulst]

I miss the hedgehog that used to live in our garden, it ate most of the slugs for two years , now the slugs have started appearing again paul

[Kev Lewis]

Luckily we always have hedgehogs in the garden They must all be under my shed lol. They are active any time of the day or night and will quite happily take food from us. For an animal with so many spines they are very very cute viewed close up.

[nightshade]

It is being shut out of gardens by the garden makeover crews they find nothing in decking, or graveled gardens, no food, no shelter,no mates.
There was a survey on hedgehog road kills the number of dead are dropping which means so is the population.
There are other threads on the subject on wab