Hello again everyone, and thanks Nic.
The hog got to the wildlife hospital yesterday but we heard today that it “didn’t have the fourth leg” (no indication on whether this was due to a birth abnormality or an injury) and as it was three-legged and underweight, they’d put it to sleep.
Obviously we’re very upset because it’s one fewer hog 🙁 … we also feel that at this point of the year, most newly-emerging hogs are likely to be underweight, and with suitable care we could probably have got this one back to full health…no idea if that would have been practical but overnight whilst we had it in the rabbit house the hog had organised it’s bedding and generally seemed happier.
Footage from a year ago clearly shows that whatever female hog we had then had four legs, and walked almost on tiptoes…this one had three and walked very low to the ground…it also seems like the colouration between the now-put-down hog and last year’s hog is different, but I don’t know the extent to which we’re imaging this. So the first question is, do hedgehogs have different colouration?
Either way, we now have a hedgehog-ready garden but no hogs…so now the second question is, any idea how long after a territory loses a hog another one may move in?
