Welcome to Spike's World, home of Spike's Dinner Hedgehog Food and the Wildthings range of wildlife foods including Badger & Fox food, Hedgehog food, Squirrel mix and Swan & Duck food; these and a range of other goodies are available online through Spike's Store.  Our foods are also widely available from good pet shops and many garden centres.

Information on many garden visitors, and how you can help them, can be found on the Garden Wildlife pages; we hope you find this both interesting and helpful!

PLEASE NOTE - Unfortunately, due to increases in the costs of raw materials, we have had to increase some prices.

 Don't let badgers be a scapegoat for TB in cattle!

The government are proposing a cull of badgers in infected areas, at a cost of millions of pounds of taxpayers money, in the face of scientific evidence that this will be totally ineffective.

For details and ways to help, please go to

www.badgertrust.org.uk

TIME FOR HEDGEHOGS TO WAKE UP! 

Spring is here and the warmth of the sun is creeping into the nests of hedgehogs across the country and waking them up from a long hibernation! 

They will be looking for food and water as soon as they emerge, as they desperately need to replenish lost fat reserves in time for the breeding season.  Offering a specialist hedgehog food, such as Spike's Dinner or Wildthings Hedgehog food, and fresh water will help and encourage them into your garden; they will repay you by keeping your slugs and snail populations down. 

Please take care when tidying up the garden after winter; many hedgehogs suffer terrible injuries every year from strimmers, garden forks, mowers, etc. 

If you see a hedgehog staggering as if he is drunk or ‘sunbathing’, please be aware that he is actually very ill as both of these signs point to him being hypothermic.  He should be picked up, using gardening gloves, and taken indoors in a high-sided cardboard box.  Pop a wrapped hot water bottle in with him as well as an old towel for him to hide under.  Offer a specialist hedgehog food or a meat-based pet food and fresh water and make sure the hot water bottle stays warm, then call the British Hedgehog Preservation Society on 01584 890 801 for further advice and the number of a local rehabilitator. 

The British Hedgehog Preservation Society has produced a leaflet called ‘Gardening “with” Hedgehogs’ for those wishing to help prickly garden visitors.  Membership of BHPS costs just £7.50 per year for one person.  For your free leaflet, or membership information, see www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk or send an A5 sae to BHPS Gardening, Hedgehog House, Dhustone, Ludlow, SY8 3PL.