Hi all – hope you don’t mind me tagging this on with your brilliant footage I’ve saved to watch later on (vids look great) but as there are people active here that can no doubt help I thought it better than creating a new post.
Nothing very urgent but long and short, the last day or two my dogs have been going nuts for something inside the outhouse at the back of our yard.
We have for years had little hogs that scuttle and mooch around the side of our property but since yesterday morning when some workmen from a drainage company rocked up and did some work pulling up drains and doing something or other, we’ve had the dogs very interested in something that’s hiding out somewhere in my very dark, very overgrown and quite frankly disgraceful yard area which to them must be like a five star holiday home.
Almost sure it’s a little hog but I’ve been outside with a torch trying to find some sign of something. Dogs know something is there one of them got her head stuck inside the handle of a bucket trying to reach in and was still wagging her tail and doing the little startled step back at the same time as my other dog. I’m confident it’s alive otherwise they wouldn’t be that fussed.
They won’t bother or badger and start trying to paw and whack it around like my old dog did so I’m sort of hoping they can help me find him.
Don’t want to start pulling stuff out because all the junk and stuff I’ve piled up out there is probably handy for hogs. Old buckets, tarp sheeting, old horse rugs and hay nets but until I know for sure it’s definitely a hog and not a stray cat or other injured animal I won’t settle,
Will I do any harm having a careful rummage and just lifting things straight up and out the way or might they be tempted by some of the dog’s food or a cooked sausage?
Soon as I see him I’ll be sure to let you know but I’m just worried in case rummaging and moving things at this time of night in the cold might do more harm than good.
Thanks in advance!
Parly
