Stop Cats or Foxes stealing the hedgehog’s food.

Keeping the food under a platform or ridge tile will help to prevent other animals like Dogs, Cats or Foxes stealing the hedgehog’s food.

Build  or buy a small feeding station or house to put the food into that will only allow hedgehogs to get in.

This will also help keep the food, especially biscuits dry in the rain and prevents it freezing in the winter.

Put the water OUTSIDE the feeding station. ( In freezing weather put water inside the feeding station)

The quick, cheap and easy way:

• Get a plastic storage box about 12" wide by 18" long (or bigger)
• Either use it with the lid on, or turn the box upside down. Cut a 4" to 5" hole ( about a large fist size) in one of the short ends.
• Tape around the cut-out hole 
• Hedgehogs can be messy eaters, so put plenty of newspaper on the floor of the box
• Put the food at the opposite end so a fox or cat cannot put their long arm in and pull out the food
• Put a brick or heavy weight on top of the box, to stop it being knocked over or the lid pulled off.
• If cats or foxes still try to get in, then place the box about 6" away from a wall as shown in the last 3 pictures (with the entrance facing towards the wall)

These pictures show a plastic storage box with a 4.5" hole cut out.
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This page shows an alternative way to make a feeder from a plastic box and has a video of a hedgehog using it

Wildlife World sell a purpose-built hedgehog feeding station (HHF). It is a perfect size for 2 bowls of food and allows a large hedgehog to eat easily. Notice the maze-like entrance to prevent cats and foxes etc stealing the food. Hedgehogs can be messy eaters, so put plenty of newspaper on the floor of the box

It will be available from all good pet shops, garden centres and online stores that also sell the rest of their range. Please encourage your pet shop or garden centre to order it from them. See our Houses page for hedgehog houses. It is an ideal size to also use as a hedgehog house, so is a dual purpose design

You can also buy direct from the manufacturers Wildlife World  by phone 01666 505 333. (£29.50 + £5 P&P) Please say you were referred by Epping Forest Hedgehog Rescue

Buy from Ecotopia 

Buy from Ark Wildlife

Ecotopia also sell a wide range of Wildlife Camera Systems suitable for watching hedgehogs coming for their food

You can buy a similar feeding station from Ron's Hedgehog site

These are pictures of the large feeding station in our garden where we feed 10 to 15 hedgehogs every night, You can easily make a similar design of any size 

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The Feeding station with lid closed	Showing how many plates of food can be put in. The metal plate is a heat pad to keep meat warm & stop water freezing during the winter
Notice the maze-like entrance to deter cats, foxes etc	Notice the maze-like entrance to deter cats, foxes etc