We were wondering how to do the feet but we got there in the end 🤔🤔

I love hedgehogs🦔🦔🦔❤❤

Thank you for this idea we built one at 7am😊🥱

Hedgehogs come every night to feed out of the cat dish, the cats just look on, we probably have four even in winter that feed.

Hi Mike what a beautiful garden you've made for your wonderful hedgehogs 🦔 great channel and great advice 👏 please may i ask what shrubs you've planted around the hedgehog area as we have made a similar area at the bottom of our garden but our plants are mostly woodland ie.acers,ferns including a dead trunk of a tree fern also hostas. Only afew evenings ago we had a hedgehog visit our garden who seemed to be quite familiar with the surroundings such as finding where the water features were as we have 3 and the entrance/exit and in no hurry to leave we think the hedgehog entered from the hedge behind our garden we live in a very small village in North Devon near Umberleigh and we live directly behind a field which the hedge is at the bottom of our garden we were blown away we were watching the hedgehog from our raised deck it was absolutely wonderful just to watch his/her movement through every inch of our garden so we quickly ordered a hedgehog house, anouther on the way & basically everything kitten food & Spikes hedgehog food,hay, logs and small feeding bowels which came the following day we've also bought a wildlife camera so as we approach autumn everything will be ready if this hedgehog returns or hopefully any we can only hope, my husband actually come across what looks like a hedgehog highway hole about the size of a cd case which the previous owner had done its in the dividing fence of 1 side of our neighbour which must mean hedgehogs were coming in the garden long before we moved here plus another entrance small gap at the other end of the fencing.We all need to help build a hedgehog highway so we can somehow help these beautiful animals survive. I also purchased your Hedgehog Hollow tee shirts for myself & husband absolutely marvellous idea Mike and for a great charity 👏 Keep up the fantastic work & videos well done 👏

Hi Mike 👋 may i ask what shrubs you use around your hedgehog area as ive recently had a hedgehog visit our garden in the evening and since made a safe area for the hedgehog at the bottom of our garden with a house & a feeding station with plenty of water but we only have mainly woodland plants such as ferns, acers and hostas and a trunk of a dead tree fern but would like to put a scrub or 2 with the plants we have. Loving your channel great advice for anyone who wants to help our beautiful visitors & hopefully with us humans making a hedgehog highway we can keep them from extinction which is devastating to think of please keep your channel going as we just love watching your friendly well loved hogs take care.

Hedgehog, in German, is 'der Igel.' There's a song we sing when we're kids called Die Katze tanzt Allein

Have just set up a night cam in my garden a few weeks ago and discovered I had Hedgehogs visiting. By finding out more about them from You Tubers like yourself, we have now set up a feeding station and plan to get these guys nice and fat for the winter. We were horrified to discover they were endangered now, and making a difference is now our mission. The Hedgehogs themselves are very much enjoying their nightly dining visits. They reward us with hilarious footage of their exploits as payment for the food! They are absolutely fascinating creatures, and impossibly cute. I would recommend everyone does this. It's a win win for Hedgehog and the other endangered species - the Human.

Thanks for this informative video, I have a few hedgehogs that visit me and I watch them ( and put them on my KZfaq channel ) on an IR camera but I didn't know it was possible to tell one from another, now you've pointed out how I'll scrutinize them more closely and hopefully get more idea of how many I've got - I've also just subscribed to your channel 👍

Thank you so much Mike for this Video. I’ve just bought a Hedgehog house and wondered what type of bedding to put in it. This has been a great help. Thanks again 🦔🦔

Liked the video, we brought a hedgehog house as we know we have had a hedgehog in the garden for weeks, collecting leaves etc but not interested in going into the house, its just living amongst the ferms & flowers,grunting a lot, we leave food out in the feeding station which it eats every night plus water too, not sure if it's a female or male, should we leave the house nearer where we think she/he is or put it near the feeding station for it to check it out? We usually see the hedgehog coming into out garden every night then disappearing again up the wooden ramp but it's definitely staying in our garden, might it be female & pregnant if so can she have babies out in our garden? Thank you Ann

I've just bought a hedgehog house ,last year we rescued 2 hedgehogs which then had to be released else where because we have so many new build houses being build and we have a few busy rds ,this year we have a young one coming into our garden and I've also seen 2 dead on the main road which is very disheartening, We also have a couple of foxes coming in the garden (I put out a couple of our dogs frozen chicken feet and the foxes love them ) but once again all the new builds are destroying the animals habitat and the roads are getting busier 😢

The links say the cameras are unassailable. Is there any you would recommend now?

ReLly helpful video thank you 🙏

My garden is just grass, no shrubs, flowers, trees nothing. What could I add to make it more friendly

Love you passion Mike, my hubby got a larger plastic box than the one you used , cut out an entrance & taped up around the rough Edges with gaffer tape, then he put a flat thick piece of wood to weigh the Box down then a sheet of newspaper on the top of the wood for the food to go on top of it the metal dish, pluse we put a heavy terracotta pot on top of his food station to stop lid coming off, we have 5 metal shallow dishes for either food or the water, water we leave outside the box, our hedgehog loves his food station which we have used for 5 years now, I hose it out regularly too, but will use your idea from previous video re copper tape as we find slugs get in when food dish is nearly empty, regards Ann & Norman

Excellent video and advice to help me get started .Looking forward to more videos .

I’ve been told that the sspca will remove T from my garden if I tell them I have one. Is this true?

Found 2 hedgehogs sharing the hog house

Interesting, I think I have a female in my hog box but unsure, trail camera catches him or her every night, I'm hoping it's female. Thank you.

Great video. I put out surplus dry cat food for the hedgehogs every summer + water several places in my garden. Once you start to do this it is very important you keep on doing it until late october and even november if the weather is frost free. I let a part of my garden grow wild. For my Cats, hedgehogs and insects. In the bright Danish summer nights i have seen hedgehogs coming to my garden from all over the village. One time i counted more than ten hedgehogs on each side of my house. It is very nice.

Thank you😊

So climate change could actually be a good thing for wildlife...... If temperature remains warmer during Wintertime then there will be no requirement to hibernate..... Fascinating.......

Thanks for the video. I’m looking to build at least 1 hedgehog house for my newly acquired allotment. It would be really helpful if you could provide the measurements of your wooden house. Many thanks.

Great video. I've managed to keep the cat off, but now I think a rat is going in!!! 😢 any ideas?

Will hogs eat frogs?

Would weasels attack hedgehogs?

Hello Mike and Dr Lucy, we have had a camera for some time. We had our hedgehog on camera last night, so he/ she is out of hibernation. We would love to have more in our wild open garden on moorland. Who would be willing to bring hedgehogs to this area in North Wales. Lucy, I am also keen to know more about your searching dogs? What age do they get trained, do you need dogs for training? Kind regards for all the work you both do. Wendy

Astro turf / concreting your garden should be banned it ridiculous considering the biodiversity crisis we are in. My neighbour has black plastic all over his, because he doesn't like picking up his dogs poo and can hose it off the plastic!!

Me love ❤

I always wondered myself when a hedgehog been at the rescue centre, I rescued 4 then they was released back into the wild, 2 hedgehogs out of them 4 didn't come back after days, it was like they were scared to come back in the garden even though they were visiting every night before, I had a little hog telling an adult hog to leave, that female hog never came back, the little Hog took over the garden

wow disaster 😔 they need banning already

I’ve picked one up in the garden during the day early December 23 - she was at 386 gr. When discovered she was very cold so we warmed her up gently in a dough proofer. She’s been with us now for a few weeks and she’s up to 488 gr. I’ve been feeding her cat food pouches with some dry food kibbles mixed in. She seems to be recovering well, she’s lively and very friendly. She has an indoor hutch and is allowed out to wander around two or three times a day for 15 mins or so. I’ve also started taking her outside on the lawn for a few mins at a time. I’ve put a wheel in that she’s beginning to use so hopefully that will help her frustrations with captivity. We anticipate she’ll be here until March / April when hopefully the climate is warmer (NW UK) and she can be released.

Gr eat video re hibernation my two hedgehogs (George and Mildred) went into hibernation 2days ago (20th December) I have a camera going 24/7 I’m so looking forward to seeing them again. George was the first one to come into our lives when he came into our extended kitchen section to eat the cat food I have a lovely picture of him with the cats just sat there watching him.I named him George cus it’s. Y favourite name and a couple of months later Mildred appeared in the feeding station I built. ( I couldn’t resist not calling him/her Mildred. Best regards. Colin

(I now have another ready made tunnel to link with the other so instead of an L shape entrance it’s now more of a Z…… the cat seems to have given up as I haven’t seen it for a while. ;0). )

Because of cats I bought a ready made tunnel which had an opening on one end and another sideways on to link with the feeding station entrance. It has been very successful until a new cat started to visit. I have a trail camera set up and was amazed to see the same cat inside the feeding station then a short film of it squeezing itself along the tunnel out again !!!

Does domesticated hedgehogs hibernate as well?

Salute to you sir for helping hedgehogs because some of them cant find a borrow to hibernate and they hibernate in the roads and people thought they are dead. Thank you for helping them ❤️

Appreciate all you have explained. I feed the hedgehogs that come in the garden and love sitting quietly and watching them. Recently our neighbour found a small one in some leaves in his garden. But it wasn't really covered. He brought it to my hedgehog house in the garden and I covered it withe leaves. I have put plastic around the box loosely, against rain and wind. Question,...should I take it out and weigh it? And if necessary take it to a rescue centre, or should I not disturb it. It hasn't come out to eat for a week now. Thanks. Kathryn.

thanks very informative @MrPhilbeale

When do hedgehogs hibernate? When they feel they need to...

Is there a specific size for their "sleeping area" & how many hedgehogs/hoglets would sleep in such a build?

We have had hedgehog in our garden for about 6yaers we have seen many hogs over the years one year three hogs is year just the one hog which he comes to the back door when he eats cat I live in Wales uk

Great videos, thank you. I have my first hog hut and have a couple of feeding dishes with a water dish. A hedgehog has visited, along with cats, a mouse and a robin who is partial to wet cat food! I have seen you video on feeding stations, but how far away would you put a feeding station in relation the hut itself? TYI

What if the tails become evil

Looking for some advice - I made a hedgehog house and a male hog has moved in. I put a camera facing the doorway to watch his comings and goings, but he seems to go back into the house for 30-60 minutes multiple times throughout the night - is this normal? I expected him to come out, mooch around all night, then go back in at dusk, but I've recorded him going back to bed 6-8 times in the same night. It may not have any bearing, but he's also very itchy.

Hello, do you treat the wood? What one is hedgehog friendly.

Most interesting and useful video. Thanks for the advice and info. However, I did find the music rather loud znd intrusive.

🎉sizes would be good