Hi Nic
Your feeding arrangement sounds ideal for everyone including you. Your rat might be a bit of a social outcast if it waits til after the hoglets eat & the mouse ran away when it saw him coming! Cats will try almost anything for food but you may have nailed it by the sound of things.
As the hoglets aren’t nesting in the boxes I wonder where they are setting up winter quarters, such a shame we can’t see that side of their lives. There’s a heap of greenery with cut down shrubs & branches piled up in my neighbour’s garden & it’s gradually got grass growing through it & has become a pretty good shelter, wouldn’t be surprised if there was someone sleeping in there. Close to source of food in my garden & a quiet place to sleep apart from when their dog is out the back but it’s pretty inaccessible to the dog because it’s so dense.
Hope the mice etc don’t flatten your batteries like Nala did mine!
