I don’t know why other people would have other ideas Nic – watch this vid of a recently released mother hog (babies are being overwintered in hospital) using her release box bedding and transferring it to her brand new home
https://en-gb.facebook.com/halifaxhedgehogs/videos/548095035938874/
so what I’ll do, as I’ve recently acquired lots of new brash (didn’t realise until recently that the trees that line the side garden actually belong to the school), workers were cutting back the branches and doing a bit of tidying (which gave me a chance to go in and collect all the bear cans that idiots throw over) I told them about my hogs and asked them to leave the brash along the edge of my side garden, which they did do (since then 2 temporary nests have been made)
so I can just cover the new home and the bag with brash, leave a little bit of dog meat on newspaper in the tunnel, and see if she gets tempted to go inside it. What is likely to happen, she’ll snif out the dog meat, eat all in one go and scarper off – then in the morning I’ll get excited thinking she’s stayed in the house all night!
Just got a text from the hospital, she’s doing ok.
