Netting - take care please

[Headfry]

Netting - think please!

Rushed a young Hedgehog to Tiggywinkles yesterday evening- a good 30-40 mins drive away.

It had been caught in someones plastic pea netting. So sad to see.
It had been cut free by a kind plot holder, but I went to check and found it back in same patch with the remnants of netting wound so tight round its back/neck and twisted tightly round a clump of its its spines!
I tried to cut it free but it was to difficult for me.
Guess it had been there since night before, yesterday was so hot, it would have been in full sun all day trying to wriggle free.
Yes, I use netting but its made into wooden frames. cheap to make really and a lot quicker to use. Not had a single thing trapped in 12 years

I have freed 2 black birds recently and now the Hog - not from my patch I must add.

Please, Please take great care with netting etc.
Thank you

ps this is not a big grumble, more a plea really

[Nicos]

I've really gone off plastic mesh for those very reasons

I now use chicken wire or sheep netting( wire) or fleece or environmesh.

By the time you've carefully tried to pull away the plants from the netting and in the process ripping it, you might as well use something a bit more solid. I'm sure it must work out cheaper in the long run!

Glad you were there to help the little one out HF...and the blackbirds

Any chance of updates????

[SueA]

I worry about using netting even though I only have it over a tiny veg. patch in the garden & I check it every day. There are lots of young birds around so I worry that they'll try to peck at the ground around the edges & get tangled up & there are frogs around who could get caught in it too. I think the best thing is to keep checking it & make sure it's fastened down carefully around the egdes & kept fairly taut so that it's obvious to see, mine's draped over hoops & luckily I've not come across anything caught in it. Good job you spotted the poor little hedgehog Headfry, hope it's recovered O.K.

[Headfry]

I telephoned today, they said to call back next week please. So no news yet.
They are dealing with 30 animals daily (did not say if all were hogs, they look after many wild animals here)