Roger Hunt wrote:

Carol Hague wrote
Roger Hunt wrote:

I am lucky enough to have slow-worms in my garden. And frogs & toads.
:-)

envy

But it's probably just as well we haven't got them here as the cats
wouldn't be kind to them :-(

The local cats have a few I'm sure, but I think they are naturally more
interested in furryfeathery creatures rather than amphibireptiles.

True. One of my previous cats once brought me a frog at 3am (I was
horribly ungrateful, I'm afraid) but I think she was working her way up,
her previous offering having been a worm....

I could do with a pet hedgehog for the allotment :-)

I wonder what sort of thing makes it attractive for them, to induce them
to stick around, apart from food? Hidey-holes? Piles of leaves? A good
book? I don't know.

I shall look it up. googles Piles of leafs and twigs apparently and
offerings of tinned pet food, chopped peanuts and muesli (what, no
orange juice? :-))

http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/facts/hedge.htm

Hpwever I suspect my neighbouring allotmnteers are probably using Evil
Chemicals which might be unconducive to hedgehog health :-(

--
Carol
"The glassblower's cat is bompstable"
- Dorothy L. Sayers, _Clouds of Witness_