Hi Butterfly2honey
Out in your pj’s at 4am – that sounds like dedication! But it’s good to hear that a hog turned up again.
There are various things you can use as shelter for food, fairly quickly:
– Perspex sheet balanced on bricks of earth filled pots at each corner and weighted down above – you could also use a sheet of wood (or other material), but wouldn’t be able to see through it, of course.
– One of those plastic footstools placed over a food bowl.
– The top part of a covered bird table
– Small plastic table.
If all else fails, unless it’s really pouring the hogs may not mind the food getting a bit wet, if it’s originally dry cat/kitten biscuits.
Good luck.
