Cuteness alert!
We managed a quick peek at one of the litters of hoglets last night while changing their mum’s food and water bowl.
These hoglets are 6 days old. We think there is possibly a 4th hoglet under mum.
As King Theoden in the Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers) said “So it begins…” or, in our case,
This is Benny, an adult hog weighing 788g that has just come in to us from Upton, after being found
We maintain several feeding stations for hedgehogs in our garden as we get so many of them visiting, probably because at the bottom of our garden is Lytchett Bay nature reserve, a SSSI. We found several autumn juveniles in the garden, or out on the nature reserve, that were too small for hibernation, so have had them over wintering. These all get released out the back, so it’s nice to be able to see them still around.
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