I have just emptied my hog house. The hydrangea flower ‘door stop’ hadn’t moved for weeks so I guessed that there was no-one home – I hoped I would not find a dead one inside! Fortunately I did not – but the house – a hogilo – was stuffed with bedding but with an empty ‘chamber’ in the middle. I am hoping that this means that at least one has used it for naps or even longer sleeps and that a female may use it as a nest now that it has been in situ for over a year and has ‘weathered’. I have washed it out with boiling water to kill off any eggs from ticks and will leave it out in the sun to dry (ha!! several hail showers here today – washing has been in and out all morning!!) before putting it back under the hedge with a good supply of hay and dry leaves nearby.
Happy hogging!
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