THIS week is Hedgehog Awareness Week, organised by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society to highlight the problems hedgehogs face and how you can help them.
This could include making a gap in the bottom of fences, creating an undisturbed log pile to offer shelter and food, buying or building a hedgehog home and offering fresh water and meaty cat or dog food. Ensure ponds have a way out, check areas carefully before mowing or strimming and ditch pesticides and poisons.
For more tips visit britishhedgehogs.org.uk
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