What animal is this?

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sheridan

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What animal is this?
« on: June 16, 2013, 16:22 »
I have a hole under my (terrible inherited) shed on my New(ish) decimated by rabbits allotment. The hole is too big for rats, and there is evidence of quite large pellety poo, that I know isn't rats (as I've had them for pets in the past). I would think it's a hedgehog, except that new tunnels are appearing alongside the beds I have so far cultivated and edged. It looks too big for a vole. There are molehills at the end of my lottie, could I have come across the culprit?

To be honest, seeing as half the plot is still thistles, and the rabbit got the other end, there's not a lot to be damaged. I just wondered what a hedgehog set looks like, as i'd quite like one on my plot!

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Beetroot queen

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Re: What animal is this?
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2013, 19:41 »
How big roughly, we have badgers and there is no mistaking the mess they leave behind.  :wacko:

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Re: What animal is this?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2013, 23:40 »
it could be a hedgehog had strange holes in my garden now i have hedgehogs dont know if the two are connected

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Kirpi

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Re: What animal is this?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2013, 23:55 »
Hedgehogs don't tunnel though, they make ground level nests in sheltered areas like under a hedge, corner of leafmould pile etc.

Moles?

Under a shed it could be foxes, but the pellet droppings don't sound right.

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Re: What animal is this?
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2013, 06:14 »
Rabbit's.

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Re: What animal is this?
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2013, 07:11 »
It does sound like rabbits.
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