Thanks for the kind words.
I’ve repeated mysef between my first two posts as I though one had got lost.
As I said in my previous post, the hedgehog’s confinement to our garden is a temporary measure until next door’s house is sold. The grass on what was a lawn is two feet high and he’d likely get lost in there and might not find his way home.
I’ll wait until the house is sold and the garden sorted, then I’ll tell the occupants about the situation, so when we let him roam, he won’t get “mowed.”
The door wasn’t necessary, I could have just put a brick up against the slate and it would have been secure. It was just my response to my wife’s tongue in cheek, “What we need is a little door,” so I said nothing, just went along with it and surprised her with it.
Over the years we’ve had several hedgehogs in our garden. So we know what to feed them.
Also four years ago a fox had a litter of six cubs under our summerhouse. She got in from the back as at the time there was no “skirt” at the bottom as there is on the other three sides. There is now. They all survived. I did suppliment their diet with a can of cat food every night. When they were old enough, she taught them how to get out of the garden by jumping up onto one of our Japanese lanterns and scrabbling over the fence. She took them out two at a time over two days.
They were quite entertaining, but we only observed them from a distance.
This was videoed through the glass of our French windows, “on zoom.”
