Feeding Hedgehogs

What to feed them:

Hedgehogs can be fussy, but despite this there is a range of things you can feed them.

-Tinned or dry 'Spike's Dinner Hedgehog Food' can be fed. Available online at Spikes World as well as other quality foods. It can also be bought from various pet shops.

-You can also feed Cat/Dog Meat, this should be chicken flavours. Not in gravy as this gives them diarrhoea. Non fishy flavours are best because this is not their natural diet, also it may encourage wild Hedgehogs to dive into ponds and try to catch fish, which is very dangerous for a Hedgehog.

-You can also feed them Cat/Dog Biscuits, as these will help clean the teeth and gums, again non fishy flavours.

-Digestive Biscuits, mash, beans, cheese (cut up) Banana, cereal, chopped peanuts (non salted!), minced meat, chicken & scrambled egg can also be fed.

-When ever you feed a Hedgehog, make sure you include fresh, clean water


What Not To Feed Them:

-Bread or Milk:

-They just can't Digest bread, and the swelling of it in their stomach can kill them, as well as the fact they can't digest Milk, it will just sit there in their stomach where Bacteria will multiply, giving them a nasty infection or killing them. It's a very dangerous wise tail!

-Salty foods like Bacon and Corned Beef.

Please remember:

-If you ever start feeding the Hedgehogs, never stop. Please feed them all year round.

-From September to December foods with high fat/oil content should be fed.