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Home Forums Champions’ chat Help to stop cats getting in the Hedgehog box please? Reply To: Help to stop cats getting in the Hedgehog box please?

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Hi Hogs-R-Us
Wow that’s some hog house you’ve got there, it’s like a maze! Does the cat actually make it all the way to where the food is?!

In my experience if a hedgehog can get through the entrance then a cat can as they can squeeze into really small spaces so reducing the entrance size is not enough. You already appear to have made it difficult for the cat by forcing it to go through the different compartments but if it’s getting the food then it’s obviously not enough. I would try what Nick says or what I found worked was to just block the entrance with a really tight turn that a hedgehog can make but a cat can’t because it’s spine is much longer.

I’ve always kept a separate hog house and feeding station so just out of interest when people put food in the hog house, when do you top it up and how do you know if you’re disturbing a sleeping/hibernating hog?

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