William C, every time I read what you have written, I find myself laughing my socks off.
Mine took one week to start eating the food, I was over the moon when I found an empty dish, but wasn’t sure if it was a cat, then the following night, I was sitting on my porch, and heard a crunching noise. I opened my door to let some light in, and there was a hedgehog. It felt amazing.
After that, it took a couple of weeks, and more turned up. Then over the summer, each night, I’d have a least 3 in the feeding station at one time, piratically each night. But since it has been raining, the hedgehogs seem to have disappeared, well the males have seemed to have gone, as there’s not much biffing going on. And one rat has discovered the feeding station, but hasn’t appeared for the last couple of nights, and also a fox and it’s two cubs have also discovered where the hedgehogs hang out.
So on the one hand, when they do turn up, it’s feels amazing, but on the other hand, it’s a constant worry worrying about their welfare and whether the foxes will get to them, whether they’ll put on enough weight for hibernation etc.
I give them spikes hedgehog food (from a pet shop) topped with a layer of Webbox hedgehog food (from Morrisons). Then I give a very small dish of wet dog food, but I’m getting fed up of that, as I did get demolished each night by the first hog, but nowadays, since the males have gone, the girls are turning their nose up at it, and on a few occasions I’ve found fly eggs in it.
So I think, I’ll just use up the rest of the tin and then scrap the dog food.
