Sorry to bring this perennial question up again – but asking how much food to leave out? Is it wrong to put more food out if it is all eaten? Or does this make the hedgehogs we see in our gardens too reliant on us?
I do not have a camera but by early evening see 3 hedgies visiting the food bowls. It all goes, everything is eaten. That is 200 g of wet dog food and a ‘handful’ of hedgie biscuits in 5 different dishes.
On the rare occasions I am up after midnight I often see a hedgie
looking in all the empty dishes then doing a bit of scavenging of dropped bird food, so maybe I should put out more food?
I do think my garden (not large) should provide plenty of food for wildlife, I try hard to make it so and these hedgies are not pets that rely on me so I am torn here.
What do others do? Thanks for advice.
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