lmsmith Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 Went out and in the filter of my pool was a big, fat hedgehog. The pool was lower than usual; if it was full, he would have drowned because he wouldn't have been able to stand up anyway. I coaxed him out, picked him up in a towel and dried off his tummy. He was nearly 15cm long, and about 10cm wide; a very very big boy. I sat him near the bushes (far from the pool) in the towel, and went inside to get a box to put him in so I could keep him warm for a night or 2 then release him, but when I came back out, he had scuttled off into the bushes. I'm very happy that I managed to save him, and have installed a ramp in the pool so they can get out if any fall in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smidey Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 a lucky hog. maybe he drinks from your pool & fell in as the level was lower? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 pools are a big killer of hedgehogs usually because they can't climb out well done some of ours are about 30cm and weigh around a kilo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 hedgehogs are awesome. i want one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 hedgehogs are awesome. i want one. what are you offering? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 We built our pond so the hedgehogs could get out. Our smaller round pond is different though and, despite adding a 'step' they still drown in it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 you can hang a piece of plastic mesh off the side so long as they can get a grip they can climb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 what are you offering? not just yet. i want to sort out what is happening next year. but i know what you know hahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 I pity the mother, wouldn't have been fun getting those out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 They're not born with spines! http://www.smartcommunity.co.uk/communi ... id=LC00003 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stella Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 Aw cute! They are actually environmental pests here, same as possums, stoats, rats etc, eating threatened invertebrates, birds/chicks/eggs in the nest (we have many ground-laying birds). Personally I would have saved it too.... then felt guilty at letting a pest go.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 basically the way i feel stella, they are known to eat kauri snails and giant weta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted October 4, 2009 Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 and a eat my 7.5kg cats food and leave messes on his placemat but still cute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsmith Posted October 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2009 I know they're a pest, but I couldn't in good conscience let the poor thing die - especially not in the pool! I know the reality is the hedgehog will probably go out there and eat some bird eggs, but I feel much better about indirectly being responsible for an animal's death than I do being directly responsible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gem_scott Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 I have saved may hedgehogs from bad situations (meaning everytime someone i know finds one i get it) but they never seem to live. How should they be cared for? Granted, most were either exhausted from swimming all night in a pond or out during the day which im told means that they are already sick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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