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[rich p]

A hedgehog has moved into the hedgehog house I acquired a year ago!

Congratulations!

You've had better luck than I have with my bumble bee box. The ungrateful sods are still managing to resist it's allure.

 

[Aperitif]

Congratulations!

You've had better luck than I have with my bumble bee box. The ungrateful sods are still managing to resist it's allure.

Maybe there's enough bumbling around happening in your garden already, Rich

 

[Dayvo]

You've had better luck than I have with my bumble bee box. The ungrateful sods are still managing to resist it's allure.

I think they're looking fo the honeypot, Rich!

 

[Aperitif]

And all those bust (I didn't mean that - I meant 'busy') little things that come on here checking out Rich's profile.. it's gotta be a honeytrap in the making. Bees could be a prickly subject!

 

[rich p]

I thought it was a honeytrap but it turned out to be a sting.

 

[rich p]

A hedgehog house is a bit like the House of Commons - the pricks are on the inside.

 

[Yellow Fang]

A hedgehog has moved into the hedgehog house I acquired a year ago!

Are you charging it rent?

 

[coffeejo]

Great news! I left the back door open one night last summer and woke up in the wee hours to discover a hedgehog in my bedroom. Dog was bemused but quite happy with the intrusion.

 

[Chilternrides]

A hedgehog has moved into the hedgehog house I acquired a year ago!

Has it invited you round for tea yet?

That reminds me, it's about time I got the bird box back up so it's a familiar feature for next year...

 

[biggs682]

great news we have them under our shed most years

 

[slowmotion]

Thanks TMN. Until today, I never knew that hedgehog houses existed, but a brief scratch of YouTube and Google threw up all kinds of wonderful designs as well some funny footage of domesticated pet hedgehogs scuttling about at high speed. Good stuff.

 

[Baggy]

Hedgehogs - they're great! I'm jealous...

 

[marshmella]

Has it invited you round for tea yet?

That reminds me, it's about time I got the bird box back up so it's a familiar feature for next year...

I made a bird box, had birds nest in it for two consecutive years, then my next door neighbour put theirs up, now they go there instead

 

[Baggy]

They are great, aren't they? Very funny, unintentionally - like many animals. When they run they can really shift, kind of on tiptoes. And they make the most gruesome scary noises when they're rootling about - very unsettling the first time you hear it and you don't know what it is. I feel very honoured to be hosting one.

The tiptoe thing is really funny - they sort of draw themselves up, pause for a second and then leg it! Apparently their mating calls are blood-curdling, though am not sure I've ever heard any hoggy noises first hand.

My parents had a semi-tame one (Wobbly), which was rescued as a teeny baby and released when put on enough weight. He used to bring his lady friend and babies back to visit us