Hedgehogs ‘near threatened’ on red list after 30% decline over past decade

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1. We’ve got a hedgie! You’d never know but I set up a trail cam and have seen him snuffling about at night. Put out some dry cat food he’ll climb in the bowl to eat. Very cute!

2. I feel like my local area would be PERFECT for them, but I’ve never seen one in the 7 years I’ve lived here. I have a huge hedge with hundreds of slugs and snails, and my row of houses is on a footpath with no road. It connects to at least two fields of grass with more hedges and undergrowth. I don’t understand why there aren’t any. I even looked up how to introduce them, but apparently you can’t; you just have to hope they come on their own.

3. I’ve been feeding my garden Hedgehog for the last couple of years. He, or she, is massive. It’s a beast.

4. If you have a garden or yard, leave an area scruffy. Leaves, twigs, muck, whatever – let it be. Tidy gardens are dead gardens.

   I live on one side of rectangle of terraced/semi housing, at the back there’s a large unadopted square of land that’s full of branches and all kinds of shit. I once thought about tidying it up, but now I’d rather leave it because it remains a hideout for wildlife.

   And if you see a hedgehog out in the day, then yes, rescue it and contact a local rescue centre. Hedgehogs are not meant to be seen out in the day, it’s ill.

5. Only ever seen dead ones myself. People love hedgehogs but hate the idea of hedgehog-friendly gardens because it means not having a perfectly manicured lawn and putting a small hole in their fence. We love animals as a country but so many hate the idea of actually doing something that might benefit them.

6. That’s what they get for being on the red list. Silly communists.

7. Hedgehogs are predicted to be extinct in the UK within 7 years. Very sad 🙁

8. Had at least four this year, there has beeb a constant stream of them over the last 3 years which coincides with a new housing development up the road so I expect they’ve moved over from the land there. Blessed to live in a fairly rural area on a quiet new build culdesac so I’m hoping they’re relatively safe from the roads and the house is bounded by fields to the back. Do have two hedgehog houses that are frequently occupied in the summer months but sadly this year they don’t appear to have chosen our houses to hibernate in this winter. I find they quite enjoy dry cat biscuits, and it’s nice to hear them munching on them at the back of the garden when I’m sat out having a beer in the summer evenings.

   Sorry if this has already been posted but a great way of logging your sightings and you can see how many others have been logged in your area;

   https://www.hedgehogstreet.org

9. I’ve got at least one that visits my allotment, along with a fox and a badger.

   I remember hearing weird noises in the garden, many years ago when I lived with my parents, and I’d recently bought night vision binoculars for wildlife since the house backs onto Jesmond Dene in Newcastle. First wildlife I caught on these ended up being two hedgehogs shagging – considering how spiny they are, they were going at it pretty damn frantically!

10. I’ve seen quite a few hedgehogs where I live and would put make holes for them in the fence but have gravel boards. They should make gravel boards with little arches in them for hedgehogs!

11. Keep poisoning insects and this is the result. It goes up the foodchain.

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