A bit of ‘hoggy mischief

Well my 12 went down to 6 then down to 2 and now they’re all gone
It’s so weird not having any hogs to feed and clean. Last night I almost went out to feed the empty pens because I was on hog feeding autopilot.

All the empty pens made me feel sad at first…then I went into the garden and accidently interrupted a 3 hog conference taking place by the foodbowls under the patio window. I went back in, so as not to disturb them any further and that was when the mischief started. One of them, the largest female, decided she just had to know what was in one of my empty round planters. So she started scrabbling up the side of it and succeeded in knocking it over. Then, whilst the planter was on its side, she got in it and started to roll it around. She rolled it off the patio and onto the grass, rolling it around and around, faster and faster. Then she fell out of it. Then, jumping back into it, she managed to flip it up and over her, trapping herself underneath. By this point me and my sister were falling about laughing. The planter then started moving slightly as the, now trapped hedgehog, tried to get out. I went out and picked up the planter and the newly freed hedgehog scampered to freedom. The other 2 hedgehogs, stood watching and just as mesmorised by the whole event as my sister and I, quickly scurried off too.

I put the planter back into its usual place and went back inside. 5 minutes later the hedgehog was back, in the planter, wheeling it around and around on the grass again….this morning the planter was right down the far end of the garden and I could see the flattened grass where it had been going around and around, driven its hedgehog driver. Who says hedgehogs don’t know how to have fun???

I’ve moved the planter to a different location to see if she returns and seeks it out again. She’s already out and about in the garden…I’ve seen her peering in through the patio windows already, right in the old planter location. I fully expect to find the planter down the bottom of the garden again tomorrow morning….