Hodgy The Hedgehog

i thought you guys might like to see a few pics of the friendly little hedgehog (named 'Hodgy' lol ) who's been visiting our garden for quite a number of years now, he's surprisingly tame and even hibernated in our greenhouse for a few years, then last year we took the greenhouse down and worried about where Hodgy would go we needn't have worried...he just moved himself into the shed instead he's there now still hibernating, can't wait to see him again, i call him every evening on the off chance he's awake & mooching about close by... believe it or not but he comes to his name once he's up & about come dusk as sure as there's little apples he'll be found waiting at the back door for his supper



he's no fear of the dogs at all now at this point.



thats a lil hedgehog ornament beside him...well, it seemed funny at the time

 

We used to have one called Steven. He learned that wife and I were no threat to him so used to join us for drink on the patio on a warm evening. He was our regular buddy for about 4 years, but then sadly, one spring, he just didn't turn up. No more rustling in the undergrowth when I went out on an evening. No sudden distinctive crunch of a snail shell busting as it got munched. I like to think that Steven simply found a better garden, but being realistic, I fear it is more likely that he went to the great garden in the sky.

 

awww sorry to hear that Clueless, it is amazing though to have a wild creature put so much trust in you like that, to 'know' you'd never harm him we do worry about Hodgy when he's not around, i assume he goes across the road to the woods on the other side scary thinking that as who hasn't drove past some unfortunate hedgehog on the roadside. makes you want to just wrap him in oodles of cotton wool .

 

I found one upturned dead in my little pond one morning ever since then I have always had a floater of some sort in the pond so that they can get out if they fall in trying to get a drink. But besides that I always leave some containers around with fresh water in them so they do not have to visit the pond for a drink. I do love these flea laden beautiful critters.

 

Oh, now i'm happy & sad all at once.

 

Can you believe my 2 teenagers hadn't seen a live one in the wild until 3 years ago when dog found one in the garden. All they saw was a prickly ball, and needless to say he/she didn't make a habit of coming into our garden after the dog incident! (she just barked at it - no harm done!!)
you are sooooooooo lucky!! Honeybunny!!

 

Zigs this will cheer you up , I thought I had lost mine last year as I found one on the lawn gone to the big pincushion in the sky, but no I found her last week coming out of the bamboo (her usual place to stay) looking good been feeding her each night with cat food.

Spruce

 

Thats cheered me up alright Spruce

I'm sure somewhere on GC there will be the tale of the drunken night when I got a Hedgepig stuck on my fist

 

Zig could of been worse

 

It could have Spruce, at least it let go after half an hour