Glad you got them now then? They're the acebestest animals ever.

Nein Nein Nein! Weimaraner are the bestest. Ever.

Malamautes are nice, but not as nice as my amber eyed velvet beauty. Poppie looks ace too.

I want to get a hedgehog or two. You can get refugee ones from Uist.

Would two be better though? And what time of year should you get them? I guess they'd be getting ready to hibernate about now, so probably this is not a good time.

Would they coexist peacefully with cats?

You could call them Sonic and Blaze, though.

You could call them Sonic and Blaze, though.

I want to get a hedgehog or two. You can get refugee ones from Uist.

Would two be better though? And what time of year should you get them? I guess they'd be getting ready to hibernate about now, so probably this is not a good time.

Would they coexist peacefully with cats?

I'd have thought that you'd be able to get rid of those things with a pet hedgehog wouldn't you? This is the first time I've heard of them being kept as pets though.

Well, aviaries are a bit different than keeping a hedgeysnog I think. They can burrow after all and you won't be able to keep them inside will you?

Mick (my step-dad kinda person) used to take them from over-populated places and he had loads of land.

2 Kestrels
1 Honey Buzzard
1 great spotted African eagle owl
2 Snowy owls
1 massive American Eagle owl aswell-it was scary as HELL!
EDIT: Forgot 'tiny' the tiny owl-cuuuute!!
(From what I can remember-there were more, but I liked feeding them )

They couldn't go back into the wild as most of them had injuries or were captivity-raised one's so he used to take them on and care for them, it was lovely

Well, aviaries are a bit different than keeping a hedgeysnog I think. They can burrow after all and you won't be able to keep them inside will you?

No, you can't really interact and cuddle them....much like a lot of pets these days *SpidersCOUGH*

wilderness type garden

Well no, quite.
I have a large wilderness type garden which also has a shed, greenhouse, lots of beech hedge and trees and a vegetable patch that is overrun with slugs. It seems ideal for 'hogs (as far as I know) but none have moved in, presumably due to the wall around it.

Yeah, the wall will do it-poor little buggers need a ladder!
Also-do you have dogs around? They try and avoid them-it's also rubbish about the dog food apparently, don't feed them it or bread or milk. Just water-if you go into any decent pet store they will have hedgehog food too so put a bit of that down under the shed or something if you want to encourage them?
Remember not to put slug pellets down if you want to attract hogs

Squirt-you know where Colyton is yeah? My mum lives at Mount View there

Yup - I lived in Lyme Regis and did my work experience in Seaton! I don't really know Colyton though - I don't think I ever went there more than two or three times in about 16 years.

Sorry about that ^.^ I go a little bit hyper when animal-talk comes along.

Also I wasn't meaning to discount your posts as 'off-topic' because after I read this

So not really a pet as much as imported wildlife. But, the thread title is "pets and animals

I worried that's what you meant

Any animal-lover is a pal o' mine

Hedgehog flavour crisps tasted ace. Oh how the media loved the scandal.

My brane has been telling me that there were also Traffic Warden flavoured crisps at one point, too.

A few other people seem to remember them, too, based on some Google searching.

I'm glad I'm not going completely insane.

you sure... not heard of those

My brane has been telling me that there were also Traffic Warden flavoured crisps at one point, too.