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Just thought id share my latest find in my garden with you. A cute hedgehog ! well at least its better than the usual >>> rats !
Hope my cats wont harm it. Didnt have any dog food to put down so i put a little cat food down for it and its merrily tucking in !

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shouldn,t have give it cat food,it'll make the soup stink lol

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lol, well im off to bed now. Hopefully off to Bognor tomorrow to pick up another bike !

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have heard that bogner has the finest clay in the country! bring some back and we will have spicey hedgehog......uuuhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm!

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lol .. still waiting to see if we can hire a bike trailer then its off we go !

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Good grief! it's bad enough with cars & caravans slowing the traffic down, now it's bikes with trailers! Is this another part of the traffic calming scheme?

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I wouldn't bother with the trailer.

Why don't you go down on the Suzuki (borrow it from the neighbour, or get him to ride down with you on the back) and ride the new one back?

Much more fun than sticking it on a trailer!

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This would do eh?

http://quicksilvertrailers.com/bike10.jpg

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Hehehehe ive not goty my bike licence !

I suggested he drive down , ride the bike back up and i would drive the car back up but he said it was too much faffing around with the insurance :eek: (tight rrse). Its a good job we didnt arrange that as it needed a new chain and sprocket ! Still a bargain though.

p.s. Bangor was a lovely place, hot too !

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getting back to the hedgehogs.............did you here about the mother hedgehog giving baby hedgehog lessons on how to cross the road? mum tells baby to watch carefully, a car zooms past and mother looks both ways and sees no headlights! quickly she starts across the road, all of a sudden some headlights appear and she curls up in a ball ! the car passes over her,on reaching the other side she shouts across to baby hedgehog its your turn,so baby looks both ways and sees nothing and starts across the road, just over halfway across headlights appear so baby curls up in a ball..............SPLAT!!

MOTHER SHOUTS OUT AT THE CAR BLOODY ROBIN RELIANTS.....he...he

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he he good one staggeringman

When i was little there was a hedgehog always in our back garden. I got a bread bin for it to live in and fed it everything I could, mainly rabbit food. I named him Harry and he lived in the bread bin for ages. Wasn't sad when I moved......

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So thoughtful...

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once picked one up in the garden and took it in the house to feed it (what a pill...k) all these fleas started jumping off like they where immigrants! soon sorted them out , i put a ring of dettol around the hedgehog and all these japenese (suicidal) fleas jumped into the dettol and died.

THE HEDGEHOG GOT PUT OUT THE DOOR NICELY..............L...E........FLIP IT DID!

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Well that was a bit cruel.
In my other post I meant i WAS sad when i moved

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Hedgehogs are all very sweet, but they do have terrible flea problems.

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As long as they stay out of my way there ok

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I had a tame hedgehog once. I took to feeding it chicken and milk in the garden, and it reckoned it was on to a good thing, and nipped into the house. I put it out in the garden. It came back into the house. I put it at the bottom of the garden (long garden). It was waiting on the doorstep next time I opened the back door. My vet's advice was to de-flea it and keep it - so I did. Only problem was, we had a very old telly, and it used to climb into the back and curl up round the valves where it was warm. Had to remove valves more often than not to get hedgehog out. It was very affectionate, and would rub its nose against your feet. Loved it dearly, and wept buckets when it died of old age.

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Strewth Pendy...... How on Earth do you de-flea a hedgehog????

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Well, Lettie, it involves a polythene bag and A LOT of flea powder. Place hedgehog's body inside polythene bag, leaving eyes and nose outside (not difficult because nose is pointed). Insert flea powder spray into bag UNDER hedgehog, spray like bu****y. Repeat process with flea powder spray OVER hedgehog. Holding hedgehog firmly, shake gently. Remove hedgehog from bag, and puff flea powder UNDER spines. Repeat until you stop getting bitten - but don't forget to de-flea the cats as well!

Bet you're sorry you asked!

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P.S. I meant bitten by the fleas, not the hedgehog!

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You're right Pendy... I wish I'd never asked..:D

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13, DO HEDGEHOGS HAVE FLEAS?

Yes, they inherit them from their mothers in the nest but hedgehog fleas are very different to those sometimes found on dogs or cats. Hedgehog fleas only live on hedgehogs. They like the cool open environment of the coarse and widely spaced spines where it can run fast. If it finds itself in the dense, warm coat of a dog or cat, it immediately knows it's in the wrong place and drops off to wait for another hedgehog. The same goes for hedgehog fleas that get onto humans, they do not stay long before leaving to find a proper host. If they are a nuisance, you should lightly dust with Johnsons RID-MITE or similar powder suitable for use on cage birds.
DO NOT spray or treat with anything intended for flea control on domestic pets, IT WILL KILL THE HEDGEHOG.
HOW TO DE-FLEA A HEDGEHOG!
first of all find the biggest fattest hedgehog you can then
1.wrap it up in clay
2.get a nice hot fire going
3.put the big ball in the middle
4.wait until clay is set then remove from fire
5.to open think its a coconut and smash on floor
6.peel back clay and the skin and spikes come off together
7.you then have a ready to eat hedgehog with no fleas!!!!!!!
;)