1.This time last year a little hedgehog called Milo woke early from hibernation. Healthy, but weak and desperate for food he lived on whatever he could find, which was spillage from under a bird feeder. On 11th March he was found out in the frost, crippled, both front legs broken

2. The x-rays showed little Milo was suffering from Metabolic Bone Disease, caused by eating the bird food. He would have suffered terrible pain for weeks before he was found. This condition can't be reversed.
Milo had to be put to sleep.
As are many others, year after year.

3. His finder was devasted. She had no idea that bird food was so harmful to hedgehogs. She wrote this notice, made several copies and posted them through letterboxes all around the neighbourhood, warning others.

4. You may not know that hedgehogs visit your garden, so please clean up spilled bird food before dusk and put out a dish of dry cat food, just in case. That small effort and tiny cost may seem like nothing much to you, but it could mean the whole world to a starving hedgehog.