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Hedgehogs

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For information on pet hedgehogs (so-called “African Pygmy Hedgehogs”) and wild hedgehogs.

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Moved into a house and last year we had at least 2 hedgehogs (maybe more but i only spotted 2 at the same time), this year got ready in advance and put together a... cosy house for them. Saw evidence of them waking up and the house was put in action.

Here are a few pics of the house (which i now reliase is a bit small for them them).

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There are at least 2 for sure (glad that both seemed to survive the winter), and bizarrely they do fit in together at the same time. For now I am attracting them with food so its more of a canteen where they nap for an hour or two. Maybe later on one might settle in. But if il get more time before winter, will try to build a home made house instead (to be larger).

Would appreciate any advice around "keeping" hedgehogs, I am new to this so for now just been feeding them and giving them water. The food is brambles semi-wet.

And here are the hedgehogs, testing a different feeder at the moment and the first night they made s complete mess of it and broke it. Gonna put a video of them breaking it later.

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