Apple, rhubarb and custard digging in to a nice feed. They came to us 8 days ago after being found alone in a compost heap. They are doing very well, and as you can see, on solid food.
They will almost certainly be with us for the winter, unless they can pile on a lot of weight to enable them to hibernate safely.
Last night we said a fond but tearful farewell to Colin, the hog we have in our care longer than any other.
He came to us as a juvenile aged approx 4-5 months on the evening of 23rd August 2018, after being trapped between two brick walls below ground level for five days. He appeared to have walked along or climbed over a garden wall and fallen into the 6inch gap behind, trapping him against a garage wall. In that time he had tried frantically to climb out, but at a depth of around 3ft below the garden level this was impossible. The frantic scratching to climb out resulted in him losing all the claws on his front feet and the tip of some of the toes.
One entry late last night; 1 x hoglet aged approx 4 weeks, bitten by a dog. Badly shocked, puncture wounds
Comet is a young adult hog who was found hibernating under a shed that was being demolished. We put him
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