Spike's Delicious Crunchy Dry

I am happy to report that my nightly visitors enjoy Spike's hedgehog food. The delivery was prompt and I am pleased to recommend this product.

This is really a good thing to feed your hogs, they really love it. When we just take the cover off the feed box they smell it. They can digest the food easy but make sure you have water for them as well. A few hand full of this can feed a few hogs.

Seems to be going down well with the HOG that's around , keep in an airtight container as a little smelly . Happy with purchase and a happy HOG .

I recently built a hedgehog home in my garden and they moved in a week ago... it's a little bit of an obsession that they now thrive in my garden and use it as a base. I thought I'd add this to the dog food I have been putting out for a few weeks now, before they go into hibernation they should be well fattened up :) In regards to the order... it was next day and arrived in good condition, I assume the hedgehogs liked it as the plate was cleaned this morning.

My visiting hogs absolutely love this and will often wait until I come out to feed them if I’m a bit late. They are creatures of habit and tend to come for their Spike at the same time each evening. I put down enough food that there is a very small amount left in the morning. This way I know they have had enough. Spike is much better than any moist food/cat/dog - especially for young hogs growing their teeth. Hogs need sharp strong teeth to eat their natural food of crunchy beetles! However, because Spike is a complete dried food, hedgehogs will eat less natural food (from which they would derive much of their moisture intake), its therefore vital to ensure theres a pond WITH A SLOPE/RAMP so they don’t drown or large dog bowls of water - (which they also like to wash in!) Another very good advantage of dried Spike is hogs are very prone to FLY STRIKE. In warm weather, even on summer evenings, moist food more easily attracts blow flies. Hogs then pick up the eggs as they eat the food and can commonly get a fatal attack of fly strike (where maggots hatch out in their spines and face fur). Hogs are also very prone to Lungworm too, so its worth placing the bowl of food on sand to deter slugs which pass on this fatal disease to hedgehogs (I NEVER use slug pellets as Hedgehogs eat slugs and are at great risk of secondary poisoning although it should be said that hedgehogs actual do not like slugs very much (they only form a small fraction of their diet) they prefer beetles, so a nice large log pile and dry sandy areas for beetles will help provide the best diet for hedgehogs along with their nightly Spike. I keep Spike in a large plastic tub (an empty fatballs bird food tub) and use usually one plastic tumbler per number of visiting hedgehogs each evening. Each morning before the Magpies and Blackbirds descend into the garden, I just check to see how much food has been eaten and moderate it the next evening if necessary. Spike is enough of a good complete and apparently very tasty meal for Hogs that I very rarely supplement it with any mealworms since these swell up in their bellies and are probably the equivalent of kids eating too many cheese puffs! Since using Spike, Ive never varied the food of my regular hogs since even the smallest change (ie to pet food or moist food ) can upset their tummies - I think its the best food out there, it may not be the cheapest but its worth it to help stop these beautiful creatures from disappearing from our gardens and countryside for ever.

Finally i have found a product my wild hedgehog visitors will eat. Considering i have fussy visitors currently around 47 that visit my garden, all marked with nail polish on their spines in different color and sites to make for easy identification when it comes to weekly health checks for injuries, sickness , ticks or fleas, they don't mind the deticking, they don't like being sprayed with Johnson's small animal flea spray when i see they have unwelcome guests, can you blame them? they are fussy. I feed mine on meaty cat biscuits (never anything with fish in) and occasionally a few dried meal worms as a special treat which are the hog equivalent of pringles which some groups say i shouldn't as it is bad for them. All my guests are fit and healthy and the 3 late fall juveniles i overwintered as they were all too small to survive winter hibernation They weighed 300g in mid October so they had to come in and they must be at least 650g or more to hibernate safely. Hedgehogs don't sleep all the way through, they do wake up and forage for food and water so i make there is food and water available all year round. I have tried various meaty kitten and puppy food and they simply ate around it. I tried Spike's semi moist and they ate round that as well. I have tried other brands of hedgehog food with no success. I thought well i haven't tried Spike's dry biscuits, if they don't eat them the birds will. I bought the smaller bag first to try it and if they didn't then the birds could have it or my local hedgehog rescue (Jen's hedgehog Rescue, Corby) could. Behold, they loved it. I was amazed to say the least. I currently have a juvie male in called Houdini as he escapes and i always find him snuggled up in my scarf by the radiator. As i was changing his bedding and then weighing him, he came in at 300g and now weighs 540g i tried a couple of biscuits as a reward for being good and not licking my feet. I rarely wear slippers and has he runs around the kitchen helping himself to my cats meaty kitty bix he likes to run over my feet and lick them which is really ticklish or he goes for a paddle in the water bowl and then grumbles because he has wet feet and a wet belly. He loves these biscuits heck even my cats do. I put a dish of them outside for my other visitors to try and all that have visited have eaten them. Since they enjoyed them i bought 3 bags of the 2.5kg and i will probably need more depending on when my guests hibernate and Houdini continues to grow, I am so happy to find a product that my hedgehogs will eat. They give this food 5 prickles out of 5 and i give this a 5 star rating. Thanks again In the 1st photo 5 hogs decided to show up for dinner and since the back door was open and i was sorting out hoggy dinner they decided to help themselves to my cats dinner (which i think was Sanabelle ostrich flavor) and the 2nd picture is Houdini having a snooze after escaping. I leave the scarf there as when he escapes i know where he will be. He has really long hind legs and can reach further than the 3 i overwintered last yest, Jen-Jen, Hamble and Jemima. I thought Jen-Jen was a girl as all their little bits were in almost the same place but as they got older his bits migrated north to almost where his belly button was. I decode to leave his name as it was.

They love it

We have a large garden much of which we have deliberately left wild. Because of this my wife and I have enjoyed the visitation of many local animals such as foxes and deer. And now a hedgehog we have named ‘Spiney.’ True to form Spiney is a creature of habit and we follow his nightly exploits on camera as he makes his regular way around what appears to be his property. It is remarkable just how close his timekeeping is and each night at around 22:30 he walks past our patio windows on route to the forest on the other side of our garden. Now he stops for a light evening meal which, my wife ensures is out there in place with a bowl of water before we go to bed. It has become part of his regular walk much to our delight and each morning we eagerly download the previous night’s video of him enjoying his repast. We started with dog food which, I believe many people use. However, the truth is that he wasn’t that fussed about it. I guess he wasn’t overly hungry at this time of year. However, we tried this stuff and what a difference. He can’t get enough of it. Really. We have tried for experimental purposes putting out dog food, cat food and this at the same time and this without a doubt is he preferred food. In fact, he likes it so much that he will eat until he is full then wander off for his nightly inspection of his property and return after an hour or so to eat some more – and then repeat this at least one more time. The fact is that like much of our native wildlife hedgehogs are under pressure and their numbers are dropping. I’m not some eco-warrior type nor am I an unwashed vegetable – I mean vegetarian – with a green cause. However, as I grow older I have started to understand that we all need to do more to preserve what we have before we lose it. My children and grandchildren deserve to see Britain as a green and pleasant land still stocked with native wildlife and I intend doing my bit. This is part of my efforts small as they may be, and the truth is that I get enormous pleasure in having my nightly visit by Spiney. A little bit of help in the dining department is a small price to pay and this food really is very popular with my spikey friend.

My hedgehog loves this food. Definitely would buy this again.

It took weeks to arrive and when it finally did the food was moldy!!! Yuck!! Want to put NO stars but it makes you put at least one ;(

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Nous avons 3 hérissons adultes dans notre petits jardin que nous avons élevés au biberons car leur mère est morte lorsqu'ils avaient 4 semaines, et nous nous sommes prises d'affection pour eux ma fille et moi, petits ils sont extrêmement affectueux, attachants, bref adorables. A présent adultes (3 ans), toujours aussi attachants, ils vivent leur vie au jardin (et rentrent dans la maison quand la porte-fenêtre est ouverte) nous continuons à les nourrir car leur espace vital est réduit et les proies de plus en plus rares, surtout l'été, très sec ici. Soucieuse de leur bien-être nutritionnel, j'ai toujours voulu leur donner ce qu'il y a de mieux, et surprise, j'ai appris que cette marque SPIKE'S est conseillée par la société protectrice des hérissons en GB (le hérisson est là-bas une cause nationale, tandis qu'en France on lui accorde bien peu d'intérêt et oublie qu'il est en péril, que c'est un animal protégé). Depuis que je les nourris, j'ai acheté toutes leurs croquettes en GB sur le net, il n'y en a pas en France. On trouve bien une marque allemande de nourriture, cette sorte de poudre mélangée à des vers de farine, vers de farine séchés qui provoquent chez eux une maladie des os bien qu'ils en soient friands, donc à éviter. Les croquettes pour chats seraient l'alternative la moins pire, mais leur composition n'est pas idéale pour les hérissons. Dommage que depuis le Brexit il soit de plus en difficile de s'en procurer, je n'en trouve plus sur Amazon mais sur Ebay avec frais de port et droits de douane faramineux ! Si Monsieur Jeff Bezos pouvait me lire... Hey Jeff, could you add an Amazon "wild hedgehogs" dry food range for the EU market please ?You have nothing to loose, on the contrary, in Europe we are very numerous to feed hedgehogs settling in our gardens because starving (destruction of their habitat, lack of prey because of pesticides and so many other factors), they are threatened and have a total protection status in the whole European Community. I think about it because after feeding my cats with all possible brands looking for quality and fair price, I discovered that yours are well-balanced and tasty, my fattest and most fussy cat loved them and lost weight, that's saying something. Since the Brexit, The Brits, who are the most invested in the hedgehog cause, don't want to/can't sell us their wild hedgehog dry food (they are the main manufacturers) nor their food like vinegar chips which I love, but we'll get over that, (nor their plants which is unfortunate because they have the most beautiful nurseries, and are wonderful gardeners). Thanks to you Jeff :-) But if you're going to do it, do it right, ok, these little prickly little animals are fragile and need the healthier food !❤️ Greetings from the southwest of France. P.-S. I won't ask you for any profit on this future range, but you could distribute some of the food to the many volunteer shelters that take care of hedgehogs, and who knows, publicity could restore your image with the booksellers, and many more :-)

On avait vu un petit hérisson manger les croquettes du chien dans le jardin, nous nous sommes renseignés et la nourriture pour chien n'est pas vraiment adapté pour eux. Nous avons acheté ces croquettes et depuis on l'a vu manger ses croquettes et le chien mange les siennes, tout le monde est content.