Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/02/the-small-english-town-united-by-the-worlds-largest-hedgehog-highway.html
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Personally I think they should just share the hedge.
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I grew up near Kirtlington. It’s definitely a village.
…But also yes: totally the kind of place that would do this. Good on 'em.
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I miss Princess Pricklepants!
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Hedgehogs… why can’t they just share the hedge?
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(Not original to me)
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I think they probably get called hogs because of the noise they make, loads of snorting snuffling and boy do they enjoy crunching down on snails.
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One part I don’t understand about the article is the petition. The UK government has it’s own petitions website (https://petition.parliament.uk/) and petitions with >100k signatures can go straight into parliament debate. Petitions with almost a million signatures almost certainly would. Why host the petition on change.org instead?
There is a hedgehog related petition on the government website: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/550379 but it doesn’t mention changes to the building code
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Now watch the Tories set up a public-private partnership that will somehow impose tolls on those mooching hedgehogs.
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My dad wanted to set up a hedgehog sanctuary in his large garden (“yard”), and was talking to one of the UK’s many hedgehog charities,* but it was a non-starter because he burns garden waste, and apparently 'hogs are prone to nestling cutely deep inside bonfires and then getting burned to death 
So I hope that’s something this village has taken into account
* The United Kingdom has voted for decades to liquidate social housing, defund local government services for homeless people, demonise refugees and artificially inflate housing costs, but congratulates itself ad nauseam on its wuv for animals
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Me too! This was perfect for her!
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“Rolling down the Hedgehog Highway!!!”
(If its not a song, it should be)
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It used to be a regular warning on Blue Peter for Guy Fawkes night bonfires.
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Hedgehog porn is inevitable, if not already abundant. I fear to search.
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Our compost bins always have a vole or two living under them. The bins keep the wet and weather off, and the rich soil attracts worms and other edibles. I’m careful when taking a scoop of compost out the bottom to give warning.
Last week I had the tops off to dump in leaves, and saw one scurrying away. When it came back, I hope it liked the improved R-value of all that added leaf insulation.
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I would hazard to guess the majority of entries are simply accounts of Ron Jeremy. Ewww
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Rule 34 still holds as far as I know. But I’m not going to look, either.
There was a family of badgers that gallivanted around in my garden for a while. I haven’t had my night-vision camera set up to get some footage of them, so they might still be showing up. Never saw any hedgehogs though (between the badgers and cats maybe they got run off?)
And award no-bid government contracts for highway maintenance.
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I misread Highway as Army but I’m not disappointed.
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