Very distressing to look at – but really important that people are aware – once you’ve seen this vid – any lover of hedgehogs wouldn’t even question mealworms anymore.
What we discuss on here, on this forum, is really important I think – for myself I’ve learnt an incredible amount and still learning – intially I thought it was as simple as just putting a dish of dog/cat food out and a dish of water – but then when you start getting a tribe – and then now the autumn juveniles are still racing about – it’s not at all simple – you’ve gotta have some knowledge about how to look after them, cos what we do, a simple mistake could wipe them out.
Someone gave me a big bag of Harringtons cat biscuits – they look very posh – no added this and that – his cat didn’t like, nor did two other cats liked them – so he wondered if my hedgies would like them, I presumed not as they are quite fussy – so I only sprinkled a few of them on top of their spikes semi-moist and co-cat biscuits, and none of them got eaten, even a rat visited a couple of times and refused to eat these posh biscuits.
But as I didn’t want to throw them out and go to waste, I still sprinkled about 4 or 5 biscuits (they are very small biscuits) and the hedgehogs have started to eat them – now I’m panicking as the main ingredient is chicken, but it also has some vegetable in them – I’m worried that I might cause them diarrhea, as I didn’t realise until last night (after reading something on Hedgehog Bottom I think) about veg and diarrhea.
Hopefully because they are small, it won’t have done too much damage – the bag is in the bin now, but I feel enmoursley guilty again (I have a massive guilt complex).
