Strimmers and hedgehogs

[Hedgehoggy]

Have just posted this under the Wildlife Gardening section too.

I’m appealing to all you gardeners out there to please check the areas you’re about to wade into with your strimmers. I have 4 orphaned hoglets in care today because an unsuspecting gardener strimmed into a hedgehog’s nest in dense vegetation in their garden, severely maiming ‘mum’ and injuring one of her 4 hoglets.

The distraught gardener had the compassion and sense to scoop up the whole family and rush them to my vets, but sadly mum had to be pts due to the extent of her injuries.

Vet managed to repair and stitch up the injured hoglet and I now have 4 very bewildered hoglets in care, minus their mum. Asides the injured hoglet, they are beautifully healthy hoglets, mum was doing a grand job of rearing them.

[I'm supposed to be resting for two weeks following a laparoscopic cholecystectomy on Friday - gallbladder removal to you and me! - so, please, no more avoidable casualties for both parties sake!]

[Cami]

Can i add to this to block up any holes

we have an above ground pond in our garden against the flower bed which is also raised, there is a gap where the 2 sections of flower bed meet, one evening when i was feeding my animals, i looked in the pond (as i often do as i like to see how many frogs and neqts are in there) and i heard a scratching noise, it turned out to be a hedgehog stuch nose first down this hole!

after deciding we needed help rescuing the hedgehog we called out the RSPCA where both me, my dad and the RSPCA officer dug out the wooden beam things holding the flower bed in place and after several hours rescued the hedgehog, a job well done at around 2 in the morning