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!

Hedge hogging is no joke!

The British Hedgehog Preservation Society was amused by the award winning hedgehog joke by Dan Antopolski, and congratulate him on winning the ‘funniest joke of this year’s Edinburgh fringe”.  The trophy was picked up from TV channel Dave.

The winning joke was a one-liner from Dan’s show Silent But Deadly - "Hedgehogs. Why can't they just share the hedge?"

Whilst the Society can see the humour in the joke, there is also a lot of truth in it! Hedgehogs, as their name suggests do tend to stick to edges of gardens, fields, etc and they do like to ‘hog their patch’!  They aren’t territorial but do like their own space, and usually only spend much time together when mating, or when the female is rearing young.

With less and less hedges being available to hog, hedgehogs are sadly in decline, gardens are often walled or fenced now and hedgehogs cannot pass freely and find enough food.  A 5” (12cm) square gap in the bottom of walls or fences will help a great deal as hedgehogs can then pass from garden to garden eating all your slugs and snails on the way!  Offering Spikes Dinner or Wildthings Hedgehog food with some fresh water will help them build up enough fat to hibernate successfully.