Fluffers
Wise Old Thumper
I had a call from our local hog rescue last week asking if we'd be able to take some hogs ready for release. We said yes of course - you can't have too many hogs
I picked them up yesterday. Four siblings which had been rescued as babies, now 10 weeks old. 3 boys and a girl
I'm afraid I don't have any photo's as we don't like to use the camera flash when they are being released but if you close your eyes and imagine.....
It is almost dark. The air is warm & still and the rain starts to gentle fall. Four prickly balls tentatively emerge from two little wooden houses, excitedly and noisily munching on cat biscuits & chunks of apple as they go. Their little wet noses sniffing the air for tasty noms and their tiny eyes peering up and twinkling in the moonlight like little glass beads. All four hogs out, they each scurry off into the warm, dark undergrowth & beneath the hedges to explore and find their feasts, invisible now and free
They have a feeding station set up a few meters from their houses from where they were released and we will feed them (dog food) for the next few evenings but then reduce the amount right down to just a small scattering of cat biscuits a few times a week. There is plenty of 'natural' food around and we want them to learn to find it for themselves.
We wish our little family long & happy lives & hope to hear and see them again very soon
I picked them up yesterday. Four siblings which had been rescued as babies, now 10 weeks old. 3 boys and a girl
I'm afraid I don't have any photo's as we don't like to use the camera flash when they are being released but if you close your eyes and imagine.....
It is almost dark. The air is warm & still and the rain starts to gentle fall. Four prickly balls tentatively emerge from two little wooden houses, excitedly and noisily munching on cat biscuits & chunks of apple as they go. Their little wet noses sniffing the air for tasty noms and their tiny eyes peering up and twinkling in the moonlight like little glass beads. All four hogs out, they each scurry off into the warm, dark undergrowth & beneath the hedges to explore and find their feasts, invisible now and free
They have a feeding station set up a few meters from their houses from where they were released and we will feed them (dog food) for the next few evenings but then reduce the amount right down to just a small scattering of cat biscuits a few times a week. There is plenty of 'natural' food around and we want them to learn to find it for themselves.
We wish our little family long & happy lives & hope to hear and see them again very soon
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