LETTER OF THE WEEK
Jul 06, 2022
3 minutes
Robert Bucknell, Essex
The killing of hedgehogs
We are lucky to have a few hedgehogs still remaining on the farm. But this (right) was left on the gravel turn outside my daughter’s house. She asked what had left the skin whose owner had been freshly killed. I explained that this is how most of the hedgehogs have disappeared out of the countryside.
A badger is capable of rolling a curled-up hedgehog over with its paws and eating the contents out of the middle, leaving the skin behind. Three of my foxing friends have
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