Caught!

[Daisy]

We've been finding every morning that something has been in our garden overnight and has dug out several pots and even destroyed one side of our little rockery/water fountain. It was too big to be a mouse or even a rat, and I had suspected a hedgehog until some pots on a table were attacked.

Last night I woke up about 3 am and went to the loo. I never switch the light on, but suddenly the security lights came on in the back garden - we had a visitor. Curious to see who it was, I crept round to the spare room and there in the middle of the lawn was a really beautiful fox. It's either a very well-fed dog fox or a pregnant vixen and he/she was working round the lawn looking for worms, slugs etc, totally relaxed and not worried about the light at all. I watched until the light went out.

Mystery solved!

I think this fox lives in one of our adjoining neighbour's gardens because I often see it going in and out of there when I'm coming home from dog training late at night.

I'm glad it wasn't a rat!!!

[Gemini]

Aww, lovely Daisy!

Last night when coming home from babysitting we went to bring in the nighttime litter tray from the garage. Near the back door was a hedgehog! We put some Spike hedgehog food and a bowl of water down then left him or her to it. There are other bowls of water around the garden so it probably didn't need that.
Nice to see it!

[Clover]

Mystery solved Daisy,even if he/she is spoiling the garden.

Gem we haven’t had sight of a hedgehog in our garden for ages. I wish we did. Years ago we had them much to our dog’s disgust. They rolled up and she barked and it was a real impasse until I made Topsy come in.

[Oma]

How lovely , we sometimes see a fox over by the trees at night and sometimes they will venture into the gardens but haven't seen any for ages ,
Next door has a resident hedgehog in the special house she bought for it down by her shed ,its quite rotund so must be eating well

[Plantaholic]

We get foxes and deer passing through from the woods but I can't remember the last time we saw a hedgehog. I know we have badger sets in the woods but fortunately they haven't dug up our garden. We did have moles once, I can't remember how OH dealt with them.

[Nanto2girls]

Hubby saw a hedgehog a couple of nights ago on the patio.
I had gone to bed so didn't see it.
We get an occassional visit from a fox.

[Grauntie Mag]

Can’t remember the last time I saw a hedgehog sadly.

[Daisy]

Grauntie - it is sad. We make life so hard for our wild creatures.