Hi scoobysue
Good that you have a hog there. Some hogs just don’t like going into boxes, however big the entrance is, so it may be that you have one of those there. I have had several over the years and so use a sheet of perspex balanced on 2 and 3 litre earth filled flower pots, weighed down – either with more earth filled pots or bricks. Even the hogs who don’t like going into boxes don’t seem to mind that arrangement. Some cats still manage to get under, so I usually put some food in a fairly cat proof box as well, for any other hogs that don’t mind them.
If you are using a plastic box with a fairly small entrance, make sure it is very well either pegged or weighted down, just in case a hog gets stuck in the entrance. They can usually manage, as long as the whole structure doesn’t move when they try to squeeze through. The entrance to one of my hog boxes is about 4.25 wide and hogs seem to have no trouble getting in.
