Just had to go rescue a rather nervous hedgehog from the chicken run, as
next door's terrier was going absolutely insane at it.

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Just had to go rescue a rather nervous hedgehog from the chicken run, as
next door's terrier was going absolutely insane at it.


Yes its strange how dogs get excited by them yet its normally things they
can chase.
Our first German Shepherd used to pick them up and rush around the garden
making a stupid noise, wagging its tail and bleeding! needless to say the
Hedgehogs all decamped returning years later only once they decided the
dogs succesor was disinterested
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Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

Unfortunately the same situation exists in relation to dogs and kiwis (the flightless birds, not the slang name for human inhabitants) in NZ. And kiwis are much more defenceless to dogs than hedgehogs. Kiwis are well able to keep out of our way, but they can't hide from dogs who smell them out no trouble. One dog is quite able to eradicate the kiwis from an area in a night, and will do so unless prevented, regardless of how harmless you think Tiddles is. This is the main reason why the kiwi population continues to fall despite all the protections brought in.

echinosum wrote:
One dog is quite able to eradicate the kiwis
from an area in a night, and will do so unless prevented, regardless of
how harmless you think Tiddles is.

I can't say I've ever encountered a dog called Tiddles. Isn't Tiddles
normally a cat?

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echinosum wrote:
One dog is quite able to eradicate the kiwis
from an area in a night, and will do so unless prevented, regardless of
how harmless you think Tiddles is.

I can't say I've ever encountered a dog called Tiddles. Isn't Tiddles
normally a cat?

Maybe. Unless you have another cat called Rover.
I have a cat called Boyfriend. Don't ask.