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Okay so we have mastered foraging, well, sort of but time will tell!
The next thing is learning to build a nest. Now it may have escaped your notice but I am human and a hedgehog is well a hedgehog. So how do I teach him to build his nest. This along with the foraging is a vital part to surviving in the wild. although I think the wild will be our back garden for a start.
The hedgehog presevration society suggest ripping up strips of newspaper or putting straw into the living spcae and encouraging the hedgehog to make it into a nest.
Over the weekend I have given him some newspaper everyday. The most amazing thing is he instinctively gathers the strips in his mouth and pulls it into his pouch. I have had to make him a new pouch out of some fleece as he was really getting a bit big for the store bought one. It is similar to how he has been pulling the comfort flannel into his space, so maybe he doesnt have issues after all, he was just doing what hedgehogs do.
He has made a circle of the strips and is curling up in the middle of them plus the flannel of course.
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