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Gordy7

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#290802 6-Dec-2021 11:08

We often clean up neighbours cat poop in our fully fenced back yard....

A new visitor has turned up... most likely a hedgehog based on the images found in the following detailed link:

https://inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=any&project_id=whose-poo-new-zealand&verifiable=any

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#2824974 6-Dec-2021 11:54

In Australia, it's easy to identify wombat poop

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#2824993 6-Dec-2021 12:23

Cats bury. They hate their own smell

Hogs snail-trail

Grass has been getting a dose nearly every night for a week or two. And the neighbours have seen the prickly devil scurrying down the gutter

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#2825000 6-Dec-2021 12:40

Oblivian:

Cats bury. They hate their own smell

Hogs snail-trail

Grass has been getting a dose nearly every night for a week or two. And the neighbours have seen the prickly devil scurrying down the gutter

Neighbour's cats don't bury their poop where I live.... on the lawn and garden.... must be a lot of competition to poop and leave before the next cat wants to mark our property.

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#2825008 6-Dec-2021 12:51

If you find it’s hedgehogs ask your council to supply traps so you can have them disposed of.

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#2825016 6-Dec-2021 13:07

Poor hedgehogs.

We get a few through out the year, and unfortunately they always head to the swimming pool and take a dip. Had a few floaters, and rescued a couple as well.

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#2825019 6-Dec-2021 13:09

MadEngineer: If you find it’s hedgehogs ask your council to supply traps so you can have them disposed of.

Why do you want to exterminate them?

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#2825020 6-Dec-2021 13:13

Can you say fully fenced if hedgehogs can get in? Unlike cats I've never seen hedgehogs jump. I haven't seen hedgehogs around for ages, probably why I found 14 large snails and 7 slugs in the veg garden one night last week. You know tv is boring when you reach for the torch 😀

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#2825029 6-Dec-2021 13:30

eracode:

MadEngineer: If you find it’s hedgehogs ask your council to supply traps so you can have them disposed of.

Why do you want to exterminate them?

Probably because they're not native to NZ and are a pest to native wildlife.

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#2825032 6-Dec-2021 13:35

Bung: Can you say fully fenced if hedgehogs can get in? Unlike cats I've never seen hedgehogs jump. I haven't seen hedgehogs around for ages, probably why I found 14 large snails and 7 slugs in the veg garden one night last week. You know tv is boring when you reach for the torch 😀

Fully fenced... visitors have to open a gate to get onto our property... all relative... fence would stop small dogs from getting under or large dogs from leaping over the fence... there are cracks and a few fence palings that stop short of the ground maybe enough to allow hedgehogs to get under.

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#2825039 6-Dec-2021 13:45

eracode:

MadEngineer: If you find it’s hedgehogs ask your council to supply traps so you can have them disposed of.

Why do you want to exterminate them?

Massive pest to NZ insects and geckos and skinks.

I encountered one in the middle of the Kaimanawas 10s of kilometres from the nearest farm, they are everywhere.

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#2825045 6-Dec-2021 14:02

I have wooden boxed tunnel traps in my font and back garden as part of a trap line that extends from the nearby creek (on a neighbour's property) up into the bush. I get one or two rats in each trap every month (it was two or three a week for the first couple of months but has gradually declined since ).

I've also had about half a dozen hedgehogs in just over a year. The wide doesn't like that because she thinks they're cute, and they're good for the garden (in that they eat snails and slugs) but they also eat native skinks and weta (which we get a lot of) and the eggs of ground-nesting birds (which I don't think we have near the house, but might in future if they manage to reintroduce kiwi to the capital).

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#2825089 6-Dec-2021 14:59

My question about hedgehogs was a genuine one - not a SA one. I didn’t actually know that they are a pest.

I am aware of introduced nuisance birds like mynahs, magpies, rosellas etc and would happily see them gone.

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#2825102 6-Dec-2021 15:30

andrew027:
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#2825116 6-Dec-2021 15:56

I've also noticed one last week, likely from a cat, I've seen up to 6 cats in one night according to my security camera footages. I've also had a cat urinating inside my brand new garden shed while it was still being built.

Any advice to keep cats out? Or at least stop them from using my back yard as their toilet.

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#2825122 6-Dec-2021 16:19

Maybe a Timms Trap baited with cat food?

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