Strange Noise.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Sat at my putor last night browsing the vine I heard a very strange noise coming from the garden. A very deep low 'haw' repeated half a dozen times or so and then silence. After a few minutes it was repeated, this went on for over half an hour.

I knew it was not any of the usual suspects, so I went for a look round, and found nothing.

Today having done some research on the web I am proud to announce we have a ....................hedgepig. I never knew they could be so vocal.

Colin

[Peas'n'Kews]

We were camping in tent once, and thought we were being burgled cos of the noise, but again it was just a teeny weeny hedgepig!

Cute, aren't they? till they dig yer veggies up!

[veggiechicken]

I thought you were going to say it was a donkey!
Lucky you to have a hedgepig, Potty - imagine a prickly donkey?

[Piggle]

I run a hedgehog rescue and believe me they have a huge repitoire of noises, snoring, coughing, squeaking ... you name it. Huffing is usually the sound they make when the males are trying to mate with the females, they will circle them for hours until the female either gives in or makes a run for it.

They wont dig your veggies up , neither will they eat your slugs and snails ( common falicy, they don't like them) however they will hoover up all your beetles, catapillars and any worms they can dig out.

[Potstubsdustbins]

We had some many a long year ago but recently there has been no sign of them. I am still not sure whether it is in my back or next doors but either way its a welcome guest.


Lets just hope he found his lady and we get some junior pigs, would just love to have them back as regulars.

Colin

[Piggle]

we currently have 4 litters of hoglets in the hogspital - all orphaned I'm afraid as mum's killed by various methods ( mostly human I'm afraid to say).

They are so so cute when small but no quite as endearing when they get big!

[Kleftiwallah]

" neither will they eat your slugs and snails ( common falicy, they don't like them)".

Well I never knew that, and here's me hoping they are chomping all the snails and slugs.

Thanks for that pearl of wisdom. Cheers, Tony.

[Peas'n'Kews]

The problem is they dig up yer veg when looking for worms, I think?

What happens to the orphaned babied Piggle? Can you adopt them and have 'em in your garden??

[binley100]

We had one that Jake used to regularly bring into the kitchen ........always wondered how he got in the garden in the first place and where did he disappear too........

[dominic10]

Where we used to live we had the noisiest hedgehogs imaginable. We used to joke it was the hedgehog equivalent of ouch, ouch, ouch as they were mating. Or calling for a mate who was hard of hearing...We see hedgehogs regularly in our present home but are never kept awake by the screeching nowadays.

[Bexy]

we have a headgehog keeps leaveing prezzys in the grass.... but it has trampled my onions must have been after something

[Piggle]

The orpaned babies are hand reared and when they get upto a decent weight ( 500g-600g) we release them back into the wild, they don't imprint like a lot of animals do.

Hogs won't stay put so if you think you have one you most likely have 8 or 9 visiting -
they can cover a couple of km's a night.

We mark all the ones that we release and it's rare that they become resident in one garden.

Mine of hog info me you know!

[Two_Sheds]

Huffing is usually the sound they make when the males are trying to mate ... for hours until the female either gives in or makes a run for it.

Sounds familiar :rolley eyes smiley: Do we share 98% of our DNA with hedgehogs? (or is it pineapples?)

[veggiechicken]

We mark all the ones that we release and it's rare that they become resident in one garden.
Mine of hog info me you know!

My garden used to be a release point for young hedgies, they'd hang around for a bit, then disappear into the fields and woods behind the house. Haven't seen any for a while now but I think they're still around!