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You can see if he will eat it on its own or put on his normal food, but if that doesn't work, you may try diluting the pumpkin baby food/puree with water and syringe feeding it to him. Every once in a while you’ll probably want to give your hedgehog a treat or a snack that goes outside of their normal eating routine. You can do a lot to rectify this by feeding hedgehogs in your garden. The majority of their diet is made up of invertebrates (or creepy crawlies). What makes up a wild hedgehog’s diet? We’ll share the benefits of individual foods and give some tips and ideas for encouraging your hogs to partake! This helped my hedgehog out a couple times when he was blocked up and wouldn't eat, and is what my vet recommended. Home › Forums › Champions’ chat › Slugs eating food! Our paper hedgehog friend is sittin’ pretty in a simple paper plate pumpkin I recently made. Leave areas of the garden 'wild', with piles of leaf litter and logs. Make a hedgehog a home. Hedgehogs mainly eat creepy crawlies. If the answer to “what do hedgehogs eat?” was simply cat food, there wouldn’t be a need for an extensive food list. These are an attractive nest as well as a home for the invertebrates (slugs, beetles) that hedgehogs like to eat. all you need to do is put out some cat or dog food, specialist hedgehog food (if you're a rich person), and plenty of fresh water. Doesn’t his cute face say it all? Feeding hedgehogs. Food and fresh water will encourage hedgehogs to return. Hedgehogs are generalists and feed on a wide range of things. Hedgehogs are widely recognised as a potent ally in the garden, but what do they actually eat?

It’s common for new hedgehog owners to ask, “What fruits and vegetables can hedgehogs eat?” Today we will answer this, and many other questions related to why fruit, vegetables, and roots are a natural part of your hedgehog’s diet. It's not difficult. He sure looks like he’s eating pretty good in there! What do wild hedgehogs eat? Slugs eating food! Put out a dish of cat biscuits, hedgehog biscuits or meaty dog food each night along with a dish of fresh water. Pumpkin is known to get their digestion going, so if he is constipated, this could help. Making an artificial home can be as simple as placing a piece of board against a wall. Hedgehog Bottom Hot Feeding Tip.