Got 3 of em in the garden now, firstly the 8 wheel front end loader bin wagon with a faulty tailgate, moving slowly along grabbing anything resembling food and leaving a deposit every foot or so.
Then we have the 4 wheel road sweeper vacuuming up what ever is in its path until the job is done.
Finally we have the golf gti boy racer, a young un, flat out around the garden and doing hand break turns whenever it decides its passed something edible.
We spend hours watching them, must be getting old before our time.
Oh well once the wheat starts getting cut around here there,ll be something else to keep me occupied.
Hedgehogs
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Hello all. 
Hand reared an abandoned baby hoglet many years ago, named it "Hog" just seemed to be appropriate. Used a pair of tweezers to de-flea Hog first, the good woman indoors also insisted that a flea and louse spray was purchase. Size wise Hog was small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, eyes took a while to open, used to liquidise various bits of food from the kitchen and earth worms and mix with out of date baby milk powder and feed with a smallish syringe. Didn't take Hog that long to get to grips with big food and would readily enjoy nearly all of the blended foods that were given, hell of a good eater and would get in a very excitable state eating a mashed up banana. I don't really know if it was just a case of imprinting or just liking warmth but Hog would wander about the kitchen floor and settle down on anyone's feet whether they would be wearing slippers, socks or shoes, could even get Hogs attention by rustling a thick plastic bag, the more that I think back about giving him/her a bit of a start, the more I remember the comical antics that happened over that first year or so. Re-housed Hog to a family friends garden in his second year he/she even amused them by moving a fair sized pile of shallots that had been gathered and placed on a flagstone pathway to dry out, Hog moved most of them some 12 foot or so to between a wall and the side of a greenhouse and built a sort of nest with the drying shallots. He/she had a bit of a habit of producing a sticky thick saliva and paste it on it's shoulders and back, don't know what that was all about. Well worth the effort to have given Hog a start huge amount of laughter. Excuse my ramblings, thanks all Phil
Hand reared an abandoned baby hoglet many years ago, named it "Hog" just seemed to be appropriate. Used a pair of tweezers to de-flea Hog first, the good woman indoors also insisted that a flea and louse spray was purchase. Size wise Hog was small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, eyes took a while to open, used to liquidise various bits of food from the kitchen and earth worms and mix with out of date baby milk powder and feed with a smallish syringe. Didn't take Hog that long to get to grips with big food and would readily enjoy nearly all of the blended foods that were given, hell of a good eater and would get in a very excitable state eating a mashed up banana. I don't really know if it was just a case of imprinting or just liking warmth but Hog would wander about the kitchen floor and settle down on anyone's feet whether they would be wearing slippers, socks or shoes, could even get Hogs attention by rustling a thick plastic bag, the more that I think back about giving him/her a bit of a start, the more I remember the comical antics that happened over that first year or so. Re-housed Hog to a family friends garden in his second year he/she even amused them by moving a fair sized pile of shallots that had been gathered and placed on a flagstone pathway to dry out, Hog moved most of them some 12 foot or so to between a wall and the side of a greenhouse and built a sort of nest with the drying shallots. He/she had a bit of a habit of producing a sticky thick saliva and paste it on it's shoulders and back, don't know what that was all about. Well worth the effort to have given Hog a start huge amount of laughter. Excuse my ramblings, thanks all Phil
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Re: Hedgehogs
We have one that does an assault course under the shed to come visit, wifey no likey lol.