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How to make a feeding station
You can make a feeding station easily and cheaply, all you need is an empty plastic storage box, a low dog or cat bowl and a couple of large stones or bricks.
What you do is cut an opening in the box to make a doorway, turn the box upside down placing the food bowl inside, then place a large stone or brick on top to stop the box from being blown away or knocked over, then another brick in front of the doorway roughly 15cm away from the opening (to stop cats from reaching in and pinching the food).
Now you have a safe sheltered place for you visiting hedgehogs to eat. The best type of foods to put out in your feeding station is some tinned dog food, dry cat biscuits (not fish) and some chopped peanuts you could put out any one of these or all three! Sitting a small dish of water close by will provide a drink for your night time visitors. It is important that once you start to put food out for your visiting hedgehogs that you don’t just suddenly stop as your hedgehog will come to rely on you as the weather grows colder and there is less natural food for them to find.
The feeding station pictured below is visited most nights and is situated in a quiet corner of out garden under a medium sized shrub.
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