Thread: poo on lawn
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Old 26-04-2005, 12:42 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Kay writes:
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| Unfortunately, Judith mentioned her worry only once she had received the
| group's provisional id of hedgehog, so one can see why people can get
| the wrong end of the stick, since it's hard to imagine hedgehogs
| producing enough poo to be a serious problem.

It's not the amount, but their diet and other habits. Foxes, dogs
and cats pick up toxocara from their prey, which then pick it up
from the faeces. And round it goes. Hedgehogs rarely eat
vertebrates.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.