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Re:OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower by lionkor on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @03:47AM (#44949241)
The wildlife (like hedgehogs) will feel very audited when they get sliced up by a razorblade, run over, and can barely drag themselves off your lawn to bleed out throughout hours of pain. If they don't bleed out, they often end up mutilated, unable to properly eat, walk, etc.

Nice wildlife auditing. Hedgehogs are endangered in lots of areas of the world. Run your robot lawnmower during the day.

If you don't like that mental image, you should feel for the people working at hedgehog rescues

Re:OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower by piltdownman on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @07:58AM (#44950602)
They're certainly not endangered. They were "Least Concern" up until the last few years but have been reclassified as "Near Threatened" due to greenfield sites turned over to land development fragmenting their habitats. The most likely place a person will see them in 2025 is flattened on a road.

Domestic gardens make up an almost insignificant percentage of their natural habitat in any case, and any sort of HOA or Estate Management scenario would likely make it a violation to rewild a garden sufficient to create an amenable hedgehog habitat.

In short, its the responsibility of land utilised for agriculture - and this is recognised by measures around Europe such as the Eco-Scheme and ACRES (Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme) which indirectly support the re-establishment of hedgehog populations.

Re:OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower by a_subsystem on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @09:10AM (#44951097)
My dogs will eat them if they get hit. It's not a problem.
Re:OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower by PunchyHamster on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @09:59AM (#44951645)
Hedgehogs ignore loud moving things going their direction ?
Re:OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower by dpassens on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @11:17AM (#44952552)
No, but they curl up into a ball to protect themselves. Since they're spiky, that seems to work reasonably well against animals. Less so against blades.