Hi Funnybee
That’s brilliant that you rescued another one! Mother may have gone off to hibernate and left them now. But I think you are wise to carry on keeping an eye out in case any more appear.
Re. the hog houses. It’s choice to a certain extent, but I prefer to have a base on them and mine are lifted slightly off the ground, in an attempt to make them last a bit longer. If you have a base on, at least you can clean them out at the appropriate time and put them back in the same place more easily. But mine also has strips of wood on the bottom that lifts it up a tiny bit but I have it resting on bricks as well, with a brick for a step at the front door.
