We've been deluding ourselves
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:41 pm
Every evening recently since we spotted a small hedgehog in our garden we're been putting food out for it and in the morning have been delighted to see it had all disappeared, so assumed we'd been helping to fatten it up for Autumn hibernation.
Now I'm utterly disillusioned. i went out into the garden shortly after it got dark and was annoyed to see who had been eating the food. - a dozen big fat brown slugs who were feasting on the banquet. So whether the hedgehog has been subsequently eating the slugs I don't know
So every night now I will have to do the torch patrol. Or if there are so many slugs in the garden should I just leave them for the hedgehog instead? I don't know whether they actually eat these big Spanish type slimy creatures or whether I'm better just putting them in a bucket of water.
Is there any way I can put-out hedgehog food without the slugs getting to it?
Now I'm utterly disillusioned. i went out into the garden shortly after it got dark and was annoyed to see who had been eating the food. - a dozen big fat brown slugs who were feasting on the banquet. So whether the hedgehog has been subsequently eating the slugs I don't know
So every night now I will have to do the torch patrol. Or if there are so many slugs in the garden should I just leave them for the hedgehog instead? I don't know whether they actually eat these big Spanish type slimy creatures or whether I'm better just putting them in a bucket of water.
Is there any way I can put-out hedgehog food without the slugs getting to it?