Conference govt02::basingstoke

    We get lots of birds in our garden in Bramley, and it's a full time job 
    keeping up with the bird nuts and bread.  But, we've been justly
    rewarded.  A couple of blue tits recently set up home in one of the
    nesting boxes we have on the side of the garage and produced quite a
    little family.  
    
    Ah...
    
    Karen  

re.0:

The Hedgehog is a real bonus for the garden, you should encourage it to 
stay by feeding it fillet steak. Your reward will be in the autumn when you 
can tie it to a stick and use it to pick up leaves.

Dave.

    Have you been watching "Not the Nine O'Clock News" again Dave?
    
    ;-)
    Ray.

    The best thing to feed the hedgehog is actually Cat food this is not a
    joke, don't what ever you do feed it bread and milk.
    
    Sarah

    
    bread and milk won't kill them, it's just not particularly good for
    their digestion.
    
    it is useful for initially tempting them to visit because they do adore
    milk !  just not as a staple diet...

    What should I feed the flat hedgehog that lives on the road outside
    my house?
    
    Richard Attenborough

    < .4
    The best thing to feed the hedgehog is actually Cat food this is not a
    joke, don't what ever you do feed it bread and milk.
    
    Sarah

I have heard this. What about dog food? The problem with cat food is that,
well, all the cats around would scoff it.

Dougie

>    What should I feed the flat hedgehog that lives on the road outside
>    my house?
>    
>    Richard Attenborough

	I'd guess a bicycle pump might be a good idea.

	Dave :~)

>    What should I feed the flat hedgehog that lives on the road outside
>    my house?
>    
>    Richard Attenborough
    
    Tagliatelle?
    
    Ray.

    Dog or Cat food either will do, milk will give the hedgehog extremely
    bad guts ache.  This time of year it should be okay though, but not in
    the autumn or winter when they go into hibernation as the milk and
    bread rots in the stomach and they end up dying.

WHat else can I use to tempt the hedgehogs?

Two turned up last night. Scoffed the milk I left, but didn't touch the 
dog food. I heard some cats fighting over it in the middle of the night.

Are these wild hedgehogs? Where do they go during the day? Where do they sleep?

Enquiring minds want to know.

Dougie

    
    Glad to hear my theory about the great hedgehog temptation still works
    
    :-)

    
    Hedgehogs are mainly nocturnal, and sleep in dry, leaf lined holes
    during the day.
    
    And yes, they will be wild.

I was under the impression that cat and dog food are different.  Cat food
contains a lot more nutrients, and is fit for human consumption, whereas dog
food isn't.

Maybe hedgehogs're clever enough only to eat cat food?


Xtine

    Yes cat and dog food are different, as they are mixed to provide
    a complete balanced diet for the cat/dog and their requirements
    differ, this wont make much difference to master hedgepig as he
    will be still eating his usual menu of beetles and slugs.
    
    

>    Yes cat and dog food are different,

Yes, cat food contains BSE. 

:-)

Ian

Many thanks to the person who sent me the hedgehog RSPCA booklet. I've read it from 
through.

It doesn't actually mention that hedgehogs should not be given milk. It only says that
they may not get a balanced diet if they become reliant on bread and milk and
stuff that humans put out. (Cat food excepted I suspect).

Another surprise is that there tend to be more than one hedgehog. It seems that Henry may
actually be several different hedgehogs, visiting at different times. I mean,
can you tell the difference?

Dougie

Re .-1

>Another surprise is that there tend to be more than one hedgehog. It seems that Henry may
>actually be several different hedgehogs, visiting at different times. I mean,
>can you tell the difference?

Only if you are another hedgehog.

There is a small wood adjoining my house.My wife &  I were standing out in the 
garden with my father when we heard loud snuffling and grunting noises from the
woods. This transpired to be a couple of hedgehogs. 
"What are they doing?" said my wife
"Making more hedgehogs" said my father

Nigel 

BTW I have a wren nesting in my goatshed but no hedgehogs

Dougie,

Do you think that you could sort out your U****x system so that you don't
insert spurious control characters into note titles or insert notes with lines 
longer than 80 characters.

Or is this a limitation of Open Systems?

Nigel

No, it's not his U**********x system, it's DECwindows notes!

The temptation is to press return at the end of the title, and it just assumes
you wanted a two line title.

It also doesn't auto wrap.

As both these problems are fixed in other DECwindows programs, I assume that its up to the DECwindows/Notes devlopers.

Mark.

Only the basenote was entered from an ULTRIX box. I've heard
TASTY runs VMS, but I skip so nimbly between the two I hardly
ever notice.

The bird-feeder has attracted some very hacked-off but determined
sparrows who sort of hover and munch at the same time. They don't
seem to be able to hang on very long, but it produces a high
chortle factor amongst the human audience.

And there is a Mega Big Rock Dove (I've been told). It wanders
around occasionally looking snooty. Where would it have come
from. Apart from the sky, that is.

Dougie

The Housemartins are leaving home. Big fluffy wobbly cuties they are too.
And I haven't seen Henry Hedgehog for several days now. I put cat food out,
but the cats eat it.

Its all very sad.

Dougie

    Have you thought that making your garden a haven for the local moggies
    could be the reason for the suspicious lack of birds?
    
    We have a bird table all ready to sustain 1/2 a million birds and our
    cat keeps pleading with me to put it in the garden. Doesn't fool me
    though! After a couple of blue-tits met their maker somewhat
    prematurely last year, I feel it my duty to scare the little b****ers
    off for their own good.