Hi again,
Update on my gang. Unfortunately had to have them rescued as too small. Saw one out in the afternoon on my patio and got alarmed. Rang the rescue centre and the chap said to check on them now and weigh. Did that. One huge one in the house (mummy hog) one dead one (sad) and two live ones. I don’t know what happened to the other ones but happy ending for the two. They each weighed less than 300 grams. I managed to get hold of the most local rescue centre, not far from us actually. She came up later on and collected them. Both males she said. I had put them both in a cardboard box with hay so they were comfortable. Big mummy weighed nearly 800 grams, (wasn’t pleased with me though for disturbing her). Anyway, at least two have been rescued, I will check up on them to find out if they survived ok. The dead one must have been the one we saw out as we couldn’t locate it in our garden and it couldn’t have got out as the hedgehog door in my gate was shut off as I usually do during the day. Big mummy is still in the house (I swapped it for the other one as it was messy inside with poo). She seems quite happy to stay now for the winter and is still feeding. I hope the other ones (I had counted 5 or 6 young originally), have survived but if they were the same size as the two then probably not. I just hope they were bigger. I find it is a learning curve, next time I won’t wait so long to get them rescued.
Cheers, Elsie.
