These animals are wild, not pets — the kindest thing we can do is watch them, protect them, and make our outdoor spaces welcoming. Every garden, balcony or window box can be a little nature reserve. 🌱
Tick off each animal you spot
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⚠️ Look, don't touch. Never handle wild animals unless one is clearly hurt — and then tell an adult, who can call a wildlife rescue (like the RSPCA or a local hedgehog rescue). Feed the birds, but never give bread, milk or salty food.
🌿 Make your garden wildlife-friendly
- Leave a small gap in the fence (a "hedgehog highway") so hedgehogs can roam between gardens.
- Put out fresh water in a shallow dish — vital in hot and freezing weather.
- Grow flowers bees and butterflies love — lavender, foxglove, buddleia.
- Leave a wild corner of long grass, logs and leaves for beetles, frogs and hedgehogs.
- Feed birds with seeds, suet and mealworms — never bread — and keep feeders clean.
- Build a bug hotel or a small pond (even a washing-up bowl sunk in the ground helps frogs).
- Go pesticide-free — slug pellets and sprays poison the animals that eat the slugs.
- Check long grass before mowing and bonfires before lighting — hedgehogs hide in both.