Nic, can you confirm if, in your experience, rats are definitely directly dangerous to hedgehogs, as in killing it injuring them rather than just feeding on a dead hedgehog or moving into a hedgehog house? I’ve heard rumours of such, but given the enormous numbers of rats that live in this country, if they were regularly killing hogs the poor hogs would be extinct by now. Plus hogs come with some pretty impressive built in armour, which I would have thought would have defeated a rat, although I suppose young babies might me more vulnerable? Sorry wuzzie, I can understand why you came to the conclusion that rats had killed the baby hedgehogs, but looking at the posts it seems far more people have issues with rats eating the food left out for the hogs, rather than a direct attack on hogs or hoglets. Given the issues with poison and trapping, I suspect humans trying to kill rats may be responsible for more hedgehog deaths than the actual rats are.
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