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linz71

Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Posts: 119
Location: N.E.Lincolnshire

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 10 5:35 am Post subject:

My Aunt was had one with no spiines once. That was strange site, a bald hedgehog.

2steps wrote:

I think their really sweet but I haven't seen one since we moved up here.
There is a guy here who breeds the pet ones, see him sometimes in the pet shop in Cleethorpes. Cute but expensive

Breeds pet hedgehogs!
I thought you just had to hope to be lucky to have a personal slug killer in your garden. How much is expensive?

Cobnut

Joined: 29 Aug 2008
Posts: 475
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 10 7:18 am Post subject:

Penny wrote:

...Quite a few people on here do it...

When I lived in suburbia I over-wintered underweight hedgies too. I absolutely love them but have only seem 3 [2 dead, one alive] in the 4+ years I’ve been up here

BelindaC

Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Posts: 464
Location: Hertfordshire

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 10 6:22 pm Post subject:
We see one in our garden from time to time (a long garden, 1930s semi with a very old hedge on one side). I think it lives in the hedge. It does seem to keep the slugs down!

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 10 7:11 pm Post subject:

linz71 wrote:

2steps wrote:

I think their really sweet but I haven't seen one since we moved up here.
There is a guy here who breeds the pet ones, see him sometimes in the pet shop in Cleethorpes. Cute but expensive

Breeds pet hedgehogs!
I thought you just had to hope to be lucky to have a personal slug killer in your garden. How much is expensive?

£150 Not sure if they are different to our wild ones as they are smaller and a lighter colour. He keeps them inside in those big indoor rabbit cages

MoJo

Joined: 12 Sep 2007
Posts: 19
Location: Yorkshire

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 10 6:42 am Post subject:
We have hedgehogs - wild, i hasten to add. This year we were treated to seeing a mum with her 6 babies.

Cobnut

Joined: 29 Aug 2008
Posts: 475
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 10 7:07 am Post subject:

2steps wrote:

£150 Not sure if they are different to our wild ones as they are smaller and a lighter colour. He keeps them inside in those big indoor rabbit cages

If my memory serves me right the pale hedgehogs that people keep as pets are an African variety. They seem more popular in the USA though, and if you put "hedgehog" into YouTube, most are those.

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