Hedgehog hotel

We are so lucky we have hedgehogs visit us each year and as they have babies they teach their babies that it is safe to hibernate in our garage and we have had up to 3 living in the garage one year i have a feeling they might have been a family as there was a large one and a mummy one with her baby.  They are supposed to be solitary but there are always a few knocking about in the our logs.

This year i don't think baby got the idea as he made his hibernation nest right in the middle of the walkway of our garage and had dragged loads of plastic bags and a huge amount of muddy leaves from the garden and we have been tentatively stepping about him as he snuffles around us helping himself to the cats biscuits.

Sophie and i decided that he needed to be moved before he was squashed so made him a new safer luxury home.  Using an OJ cardboard box for warmth that was surrounded with plastic to keep the wet and damp and wind off him.  We blocked up the hole in the back with daddies car sponge (sshhh dont tell him) and then filled the box with an old towel and completed his new pad with a good handful of his smelly leaves, as hedgehogs don't have great eye sight but excellent sense of smell.

Sophie wanted to make the hedgehog feel welcome so made him a sign and looking at it now i realise i put it upside down text wise as i placed it up with the happy hedgehog but Sophie didn't mind and we cant wait to see if the hedgehog is there tomorrow, but with a free supply of cat food and water why would he want to leave.