I believe there’s an animal/animals nesting under our shed.
I have a 9 year old jack Russell terrier who keeps going to the same spots around or shed, no barking or anything she just starts sniffing, trying to get under our shed and wagging her tail - more playful than anything which makes me think that it’s not any kind of rodent/s as I feel she’d been acting more aggressive. I also felt we’d know if there’s any kind of rat or mouse as they’d more be likely seen around our bins which is in another part of our garden.
So I assumed hedgehogs - we’ve had hedgehogs before as have the neighbours - quite common in our area. But now I have some concerns.
she will stay in the spot spot for ages just looking or trying to get under the shed (which she cannot)
there’s a very small gap at the bottom of on side of the shed which might be an entrance point however it’s quite small and can’t see how a fully grown hedgehog would’ve through it - baby hedgehogs would. We cannot see any other points but one side is against a fence and there’s a massive hedge at the back which my dog keeps trying to get into - she’s not a typical Jack Russell so struggled with any stealthiness 😂
we’ve tried looking under the shed - also had a wired camera under there connected to our phone but cannot see anything obvious - but it was hard to see much.
obviously we cannot rip the shed down and we don’t want to potentially disturb any wildlife.
we haven’t seen anything obvious sign wise. We keep meaning to check at night when anything could become more active but we end up falling sleep quite easily.
any idea? Tips?
whatever it is our dog cannot cannot get to it - yet. The gap is too small.
we’ve also tried looking in and through the actual shed - as there’s a few small gaps in the floor - damn rain.