forest of dean redneck 11,598 Posted September 22 Report Share Posted September 22 My parents watching it and they were on about hedgehogs declining ,biggest factors were pesticides/slug pellets and loss of habitat . No mention of badgers killing and eating them? 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.357shooter 1,210 Posted September 22 Report Share Posted September 22 Have not watched that shower of shite for years.to much woke crap and as for wheel chair users reporting from top of mountains wtf,feel sorry for the poor b*****d's who had to carry them up there FFS.could mention all the good old white presenters who have been replaced with more diverse younger ones. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
big feet 324 Posted September 22 Report Share Posted September 22 15 minutes ago, forest of dean redneck said: My parents watching it and they were on about hedgehogs declining ,biggest factors were pesticides/slug pellets and loss of habitat . No mention of badgers killing and eating them? Haven't badgers been eating them all the time, unless you are saying a big rise in badger populations are hitting the hedgehog population? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gypsydog94 4,586 Posted September 22 Report Share Posted September 22 3 minutes ago, big feet said: Haven't badgers been eating them all the time, unless you are saying a big rise in badger populations are hitting the hedgehog population? I think that’s what he was hinting at. Seen plenty about around me since badger cull 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
forest of dean redneck 11,598 Posted September 22 Author Report Share Posted September 22 Well both really yes badgers have always killed hedgehogs but no mention of it and the increased badger population must be having an effect on them especially when it’s summer and grounds hard ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eastcoast 4,122 Posted September 22 Report Share Posted September 22 This is how they could find hedgehogs. Get yourself a Jack Russell. Walk him in the old places that you used to walk and others now do. Try and be friendly with the other dog walkers, let him sniff where the other dogs are sniffing, then crunch and shake, he's found another bloody hedgehog in the cover. Mouth covered in blood from a dozen tiny spine pricks, other dogs and people freaking out, Jack Russell covered in fleas looking very pleased with himself. 1 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnipper 6,467 Posted September 22 Report Share Posted September 22 (edited) 25 minutes ago, eastcoast said: This is how they could find hedgehogs. Get yourself a Jack Russell. Walk him in the old places that you used to walk and others now do. Try and be friendly with the other dog walkers, let him sniff where the other dogs are sniffing, then crunch and shake, he's found another bloody hedgehog in the cover. Mouth covered in blood from a dozen tiny spine pricks, other dogs and people freaking out, Jack Russell covered in fleas looking very pleased with himself. Had a very similar experience with my russel, jumping out from the cover with a hedgehog nearly decapitated swinging from his gob and claret everywhere as a woman dog walker came on the field Cost me a fortune in flea stuff the week after too when the dogs were riddled Edited September 22 by gnipper Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eastcoast 4,122 Posted September 22 Report Share Posted September 22 6 minutes ago, gnipper said: Had a very similar experience with my russel, jumping out from the cover with a hedgehog nearly decapitated swinging from his gob and claret everywhere as a woman dog walker came on the field Cost me a fortune in flea stuff the week after too when the dogs were riddled No need to de-flea, the ones that live on hedgehogs cannot survive on dogs. Just pick them off off crush :-). Same with rabbits. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Franks dad 864 Posted September 23 Report Share Posted September 23 One of my rotties years ago was throwing his toy around the garden in the dark , was getting some good air with it . I went to throw it for him and got spiked … oh …. It’s not your cloth frog 🥹. two weeks later went away for the weekend amd left my mate looking after the house and dogs … got a phone call , dogs just dropped a dead hedgehog at my feet in the kitchen ….. Asked him next day where he’d disposed of the body …. I put it out on the road so it looked like a road accident was his reply …. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
forest of dean redneck 11,598 Posted September 23 Author Report Share Posted September 23 I remember as a young adult reading a book and the author was on about the gypsies keeping a strain of black n tan terriers for hedgehogs can’t remember if it was a Plummer book ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wuz 40 Posted September 23 Report Share Posted September 23 When I was a lot younger i had a springer dog who when working hedge bottoms would find them then pick them up and carry them about ten foot into the the field drop them and go back to working the hedge lads used to curse him thinking it was a rabbit every time Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cragman 2,770 Posted September 23 Report Share Posted September 23 Don’t watch cuntryvile, absolute load of shite. Put an “Out of Town” dvd on instead 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tatsblisters 9,685 Posted September 23 Report Share Posted September 23 Not watched it for year's like some have said it's become too woke . I remember in the early 90s and they did a piece on illegal hare coursing and then went on about catapults that some lads coursing had used to deter a landowner confronting them after watching the clip i got straight on the phone to my mate in London who was filmed with two other's walking down a lane with their backs to who ever was filming them with their lurchers 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
downsouth 7,270 Posted September 23 Report Share Posted September 23 4 hours ago, forest of dean redneck said: I remember as a young adult reading a book and the author was on about the gypsies keeping a strain of black n tan terriers for hedgehogs can’t remember if it was a Plummer book ? Sounds like the sort of bulls**t that he would come out with 2 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Arry 21,819 Posted September 23 Report Share Posted September 23 I have lived in the house I'm in now for about 40 years there have always been Hedgehogs in the garden and I have aways used slug pellets. I put some ferret food under the ferret hutch every night and come every night unless its pissing down or a hard frost. but I have even had small ones come in frosty weather I reckon they haven't got enough weight to hibernate. The only problem with encouraging them is the little and some times not so little shits they leave on the paths lol. A hedgehog run up beside my front steps. A run by the the steps going to the garden. Another coming down the bank outside the kitchen window Cheers Arry 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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