Problem with Ddog and hedgehogs

[AlmaCogansFrockFan]

Can anyone help with this? Whenever Ddog (who is now 4) finds a hedgehog in the garden she stands over it and yaps shrilly, refuses to move away from it and has to be forcibly removed from the area which is awkward when this is under bushes. If she got the smell of one on a walk she'll pull me towards it but not yap and of course it was easier to remove her by pulling the lead. However a few weeks ago her behaviour escalated - she is trying to grab them and twice I've taken her to the vet as she's ended up with either a quill in her mouth or blood round her mouth; she's also started to yap on finding one on a walk. She likes being in the garden in the evening but it seems I may have to only let her out on a long tether in order to avoid these confrontations.

Hedgehogs have a tough enough time as it is without being attacked by dogs. You're lucky to have them in your garden and they won't be there for much longer.

Is it possible for you to temporarily fence off the areas the hedgehogs are using? A friend with three dogs who has hedgehogs nesting in her garden has done this and it's working well. Otherwise, yes, you will need to supervise her in the garden and use a lead.

Restrain her from grabbing at them and to be extra safe you can use a basket muzzle to prevent her making a quick grab (not one of the soft fabric muzzles which don't allow a dog to pant).

DDog1 is a working spaniel and a great picker-up. If he ever happens upon our local hedgehog in the yard, he will carry him in tenderly and place him on his bed.
Now not only do we have to get him to leave the toy he's carrying around before he goes out, we have to frisk him for hedgehogs before he comes in

No answers for you (other than taking your dog into the garden on a lead) but I do have sympathy. We have hedgehogs, a husky and a terrier. I can call the terrier away but it takes two of us to get the husky in from the garden if he finds one. And then he won't settle and he needs to go in and out for an hour before he will go to bed.

Eric pees on every hedgehog he comes across if it's still. If it is moving he gives them a wide berth, I assume because, as a puppy he stuck his nose a bit too close and got pricked by the spines

Now not only do we have to get him to leave the toy he's carrying around before he goes out, we have to frisk him for hedgehogs before he comes in

My GSD is the same, he'll pick up our regular visiting hedgehog if I don't spot it first. Will always put it down when I tell him to.
A few years ago he managed to sneak it past me, I thought he was carrying his football. I found him calmly lying on his bed with a hedgehog between his paws.

Thank you for your suggestions and tips. I was about to put her on the lead attached to the patio door tonight (which doesn't always work as she stays put on the threshold and doesn't go out) but she was giving me the eager look that means walkies, so I took her out round the block! So it may well mean walking her in the garden or trying out fencing. I was amused by the spaniel having to be frisked for hedgehogs.

I was walking my bil's doberman off lead late one night in a pitch black field and she came back with what sounded like a plastic bottle in her mouth. Put my hand under her mouth and said drop and she dropped a hedgehog into my hand (which I dropped in fright). Poor thing scurried off, but it didn't look any the worse for wear.