Yes, a tunnel, from a hardware store.
I’m sorry for your loss and sense of blame.
Our perimeter is tortoise escape-proof, but one day during lockdown we found a hog in the hutch. Great!
A week of repeatedly transferring the spiny cutie to a hastily made but comfortable hog hotel with front restaurant and supply of cat biscuits, I had to loose the heavy carpet tile flap on the tortoise hutch (normally up) to dissuade the hog. The hog subsequently went through the flap as though it were not there. Each day it would be back, sleeping for a few hours either end of the day with tortoise (when I gave it the chance).
The unprecedented appearance of faeces, then flies caused me to put a manually controlled barrier up. After a few days of not seeing the hog I thought it had left via a new HH hole, but I found the hog dead in the border.
Like you, I felt terrible. It had a leg injury not seen before – not caused post-mortem – going by the hog’s position under a crawling plant.
A few days later we got hog two. It disappeared (healthily) and now we’re on Hog 3. You just have to move on.
It sounds like on net, you’ve been really successful at helping hedgehogs. An anti cat/fox tunnel will stop that setback happening again. Also, your sharing the disaster will help others.
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