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Suspected Hedgehog droppings from a couple of months ago
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:15:56 GMT, Tim Challenger
"timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" wrote: A few months ago I posted about trying to identify some droppings in the garden. Well a couple of uncomfortable evenings hiding near the veggie patch, the culprits have been caught red-handed - or rather - red-bummed. And yes, it was hedgehogs. A family of 3. I have been putting normal cat-food out, but only a little just to tempt them in to the garden, and as I only use such a little bit the rest often goes bad before I can use it all up. Does anyone know if they'll eat dried cat/kitten-food pellets if I mix them with a bit of water or milk or something? Is it good/bad for them? Hello Tim. I missed your original post, but was wondering if you could describe the droppongs to me, as we also have some "mystery droppings" in our garden. Thanks Ian |
Suspected Hedgehog droppings from a couple of months ago
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:07:51 GMT, Ian Myatt wrote:
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:15:56 GMT, Tim Challenger "timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" wrote: A few months ago I posted about trying to identify some droppings in the garden. Well a couple of uncomfortable evenings hiding near the veggie patch, the culprits have been caught red-handed - or rather - red-bummed. And yes, it was hedgehogs. A family of 3. I have been putting normal cat-food out, but only a little just to tempt them in to the garden, and as I only use such a little bit the rest often goes bad before I can use it all up. Does anyone know if they'll eat dried cat/kitten-food pellets if I mix them with a bit of water or milk or something? Is it good/bad for them? Hello Tim. I missed your original post, but was wondering if you could describe the droppongs to me, as we also have some "mystery droppings" in our garden. Ian, They look a little like a small, thin black-pudding. Quite firm, and not squishy or runny. They were black, around 4" long (somethimes shorter) and tapered at one end and more or less straight, not curled or piled up. Around as thick as my little finger, or a bit more than a pencil. On closer examination when dried you can sometimes make out fragments of beetle carapaces - which can make them look shiny when dry. But this isn't always easy too see, especially if they're fresh. It seems that normally HH droppings are a little smaller, and that caused a bit of discussion. If they are large and the tapered end is pointing up then it might be a fox, someone said. -- Tim. If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. |
Suspected Hedgehog droppings from a couple of months ago
Thanks everyone for your helpful information.
After not having seen Mrs Tiggywinkle for ages, she was spotted after gobbling up the food the other night. It was the first time my 4yo daughter had actually seen a live one (only roadkill so far), she was over the moon. I think I have a regular visiting youngster now, the adults seem to have moved away or died. Thanks again. -- Tim. If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. |
Suspected Hedgehog droppings from a couple of months ago
The message
from (Ian Myatt) contains these words: I missed your original post, For the benefit of anyone who doesn't know, most newsgroup posts are archived in www.groups/google. It's free for everyone. There's a good help section to show you how to use the archive search engine which is very simple and user friendly. In this particular instance Ian could find the past discussion by asking the search engine to look in urg and retrieve posts about hedgehog pooh", or Tim's posting history. HTH Janet. |
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