all the food gone for the second night in a row – young fox was about (not skinny just young – I thought it was skinny last week), but hasn’t found a way to get into the feeding station or take the puppy mat out – so all is good.
Fox perhaps not eating all the hedgehogs which I was concerned about – so all good.
Bit concerned about one of the hogs last night – it might have just been foraging, as it had it’s nose to the ground and seemed to be sniffing, but didn’t run away like most of the hogs visiting, it was in my garden for a while and seemed slow – however, I noticed another hog , that looked fairly young (smaller but not a hoglet), rummaging around and going about slowly – so I am hoping the bigger hog earlier was just busy foraging.
I checked if it was using all 4 legs, and it was, it also didn’t appear to be wobbly. My rescue centre is full to the rafters at the moment, and I can only rescue them if it’s something very obviously wrong with it, i.e. not using one or more of it’s legs, and wobbily. Being slow whilst foraging didn’t give me enough reason to pick it up. It did appear to have a white patch on it’s back so I did go up to it, it curled into a ball, and checked it’s spines with my torch quickly, there was no sign of fly strike and it wasn’t scratching – I didn’t feel that the white patch was paint, it looked more like mud underneath the torch instead of paint, it’s hard to tell in the dark.
