Keeping my dogs away from hedgehogs (Also in dogs)

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How do i keep my dogs away from the hedgehogs which keep roaming into my garden?

They have had killed one already and last night the got another one. It lived but had a piece of its insides pertruding (sp?) so i took it to the vets at 9:30pm and they kept it to see if there was anything they could do to save it. I think they may have put it to sleep as it was the kindest thing. They spotted one a few nights ago too but luckily we managed to get them inside before they hurt it.

It breaks my heart that this keeps happening to the poor little things. I would have thought the spikes would stop my dogs getting to them but obviously not.
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Is there anything i can do?
 
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Does he understnad the leave command? Or does this happen when you're not around??

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I have four but it only seems that two go for them. They do understand leave but it happens when they go out to the toilet when we are not around. Our garden goes around the side of the house then out the back so they are out of site.
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I have a similar problem and haven't found a solution. My dogs however bring them into the house unharmed and dump them in their beds! I still can't work out how the dogs don't get cut from the spines!
 
Oh thats odd they dont hurt them???

What breed are your dogs? I think mine being terriers they are born to sniff out and kill which is horrid. I wouldnt mind if they brought them in the house as long as they were unharmed!!!
 
My Rottweiler finds hedgehogs and gets all confused by them, she won't hurt them, shes hugh and weighs about 8 stone is prob more scared of them then they are of her, she sniffs them, then runs round em and usually runs back to me if a scared confused way prob thinking, 'mum, whats the scary rock like thing thats moving?'
 
If you have hedgehogs in your garden now, they are almost certainly weak and ill. They should all be hibernating now. Late litters sometimes haven't been able to gain enough weight to be able to survive hibernation so they roam around and end up desperately trying to find food even in the daytime. Crows, magpies, foxes you name it will then attack them. The best thing you can do for a hedgehog at this time of the year is to put it safely in an unheated garden shed with an old cardboard box stuffed with hay and feed/water it daily. Dog food, cat food, sardines, anything really EXCEPT bread and milk! That will give them the runs. If you don't have the time or facilities to do this, ring your local hedgehog rescue - they have volunteers who will hedgehog sit over the winter - the hedgehog will hibernate when fat enough - and then release the hedgehog into the wild when he wakes up in the spring. I hedgehog sat one year - great fun! We called our little refugee Branston Prickle (ahem) and he reached the magic weight (can't remember what it is) and made himself a nest in the box and snored peacefully til April. We released him in local woodland.

It's difficult if your dogs kill hedgehogs at other times of the year. Sadly there aren't enough hedgehogs in the world.
 
They haven't done it for a while - i have to push them out the door when it's this cold but in the spring/summer/autumn we leave the back door open and the dogs come and go from the garden as they like!
 
A rather silly hedgepig mum tried rearing her litters in the cow cubicles for a couple of years. The ones that survived being stood on by the cows got killed by the collie. I tried asking the hedgepig rescue how to deter her but they hadn't any ideas.
 
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If you have hedgehogs in your garden now, they are almost certainly weak and ill. They should all be hibernating now. Late litters sometimes haven't been able to gain enough weight to be able to survive hibernation so they roam around and end up desperately trying to find food even in the daytime. Crows, magpies, foxes you name it will then attack them. The best thing you can do for a hedgehog at this time of the year is to put it safely in an unheated garden shed with an old cardboard box stuffed with hay and feed/water it daily. Dog food, cat food, sardines, anything really EXCEPT bread and milk! That will give them the runs. If you don't have the time or facilities to do this, ring your local hedgehog rescue - they have volunteers who will hedgehog sit over the winter - the hedgehog will hibernate when fat enough - and then release the hedgehog into the wild when he wakes up in the spring. I hedgehog sat one year - great fun! We called our little refugee Branston Prickle (ahem) and he reached the magic weight (can't remember what it is) and made himself a nest in the box and snored peacefully til April. We released him in local woodland.

It's difficult if your dogs kill hedgehogs at other times of the year. Sadly there aren't enough hedgehogs in the world.

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Oh thank you that is very helpful.
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If i see one now before the dogs get to it i will put it in my shed, feed and look after it until spring.

I have no idea what i will do in the spring/summer when they are out and about all the time. I can not remember it being a problem before which is odd!!!
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