do hedgehogs make noise?

Garden Carpet · #1 (**permalink**) 27-10-2006, 11:24 PM

There is a lot of squeaky noise outside my house tonight.. cant see anything.. just wondered if hodgepigs make sounds
jaki

natterjack · #2 (**permalink**) 27-10-2006, 11:32 PM

They certainly do. I know someone who once called the police, believing that a murder or something was taking place in the woodland behind their house. The police found mating Hedgehogs!

Garden Carpet · #3 (**permalink**) 27-10-2006, 11:41 PM

cripes.. would they be mating now.. actualy. i am not suprised.. imagine all those prickles at an intimate moment

jaki

nightshade · #4 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 07:15 AM

Hedgehogs can make a dickins of a noise snufflings and gruntings
lovemaking is almost alarmingly noisey especially on a dark caravan site

Wild-Woman · #5 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 07:25 AM

Yep most definitely noisy little grunters. Just wish I could here that sound in our garden as frequently as we used too

Mr Mag00 · #6 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 08:51 AM

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lovemaking is almost alarmingly noisey especially on a dark caravan site

we talking Hedgehogs here?

I have seen no evidence of hedgies my way for years and was told we dont have many because of the Badgers, last week i found a corpse, unfortunatly, but still evidence that they are around and my be making a comeback

Tinkerbell · #7 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 09:06 AM

I almost dug into a hibernating Hedgehog a couple of years ago, it was snuggly burrowed in beneath a perenial which I was planning to move, and it's fallen leaves. However, as soon as I started to distburb the area I was 'told off in no uncertain terms' by the resting Hedgehog and left it be.

Tinkerbell

honeybee · #8 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 03:39 PM

I found one with it's back ripped open on a barbed wire fence. Wouldn't have seen it but it alerted us with a very loud trumpeting noise so we managed to save it. Also heard terrible screams in the night, it was a Badger trying to kill a Hedgehog.

Dan Salter · #9 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by natterjack

They certainly do. I know someone who once called the police, believing that a murder or something was taking place in the woodland behind their house. The police found mating Hedgehogs!

Although i agree hedgpigs make a noise when mating as i have witnessed this act many times on my lawn i cant believe the snuffling and grunting be that loud to think it was a murder...on the other hand foxes can sound like a young woman being battered and raped quite easily which can sound terrible some nights i would imagine this is what they heard but then saw the hedgepigs mating and decided it was them?

paulinemiller10 · #10 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 04:57 PM

There are a lot of baby Hedgehogs born late this year, and they will squeak when in trouble and are quite loud, they need to be brought in and kept warm with food untill you find a carer which can be found on this site.
Hedgehogs Help and Advice
just ask for help if you need it.
I would put some chopped peanuts out in a little pile, and see if any turn up. Pauline.

Garden Carpet · #11 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 06:01 PM

Do they squeak at other times.. I suspect they were just wandering around the front garden.. the droppings I posted about a couple of weeks ago are back again so if they were hog poos then they are making whoopie in my garden

paulinemiller10 · #12 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 07:48 PM

I think they tend to squeak when they are cold or hungry, any babes found this time of the year under 500 grams can not survive hibernation and should be taken to a carer or wildlife centre, sounds like your little hoggies need help. Pauline.

honeybee · #13 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 09:50 PM

If they are little then they'll be ok at the mo unless it gets colder. You'll have to get out there with your torch Jackie, you may bump into your mystery pooper too! My mum's dogs are always first to find hedgiepigs. One will dig a ditch all the way round them and yap non stop!

Garden Carpet · #14 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 10:15 PM

I will have to have alook tomorrow.. nothing to hear tonight... and i am not going out in my jammies at this time of night lol

jaki

badgerwatcher · #15 (**permalink**) 28-10-2006, 11:41 PM

I didn't know Badgers killed Hedgehogs! Do they eat them or am I missunderstanding? Is it just that Badgers eat the same food and so they are mutually exclusive?

honeybee · #16 (**permalink**) 29-10-2006, 08:14 AM

I suppose a hungry Badger will eat anything it can get! As I recall it was a hot summer and it was probably having trouble getting it's usual food and moisture.