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We have hedgehogs in Netherlands, and they are curious creatures. One can eat half it's bodyweight in wet cat food if the food is provided, night after night.
by blunte 6y ago
We have hedgehogs in Netherlands, and they are curious creatures.
One can eat half it's bodyweight in wet cat food if the food is provided, night after night. And amusingly, they will actually nudge a cat out of the way to get the food.
They are incredibly noisy eaters, slurping and smacking so loud you can hear it through the walls if it's quiet otherwise.
And this I would not have believed if my wife's colleague hadn't posted a video, but a hedgehog can and will drag a chicken of double it's size out of the henhouse, kill it, and feast on it.
- lostlogin 6y agoHedgehogs are a pest in New Zealand due to them killing insects and birds. I had no idea they would tackle birds that big though. New Zealand has a lot of birds that hang around near the ground and make nests low down. Somehow I have ended up with a pet hedgehog at home, which started after I found a very dehydrated, very young one wandering around during the day. The noises it makes when it finds food are quite funny, squeaks and squawks.
- gerdesj 6y agoI had no idea that hedgehogs might predate something the size of a chicken. I'm not convinced because their jaws are quite small and not particularly strong. They would really have to fierce up.