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    This is the one I get in my garden. He's only a young one. He hasn't seemed that interested in any dog food I put out, but I'm still putting a little out in case he just missed it (although I put it where he has dug a few times for slugs).
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    Strange that he doesn't touch the food, as you know, the one we have here, waits for it to be put out.
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    Maybe he IS but only for the slugs that it attracts (which it does!) I put just a few bits out last night and it has now gone - but I never know if it's a local cat who's had it. I'll persevere with cat food chunks and if I do catch him eating I may get some dog food again (but not until then as I've already had to thrown a large part of a can away. he must be hungry though as I've seen him out at all hours - it was late morning yesterday, so it's not even that he's getting up early or sleeping late.
    Of course he may be a teenager, so sleeping at the other end of the day to the adults

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    UPDATE - I was worried that when I moved the nest the other day I had disturbed him too much so I carefully peeked yesterday only to spot 2 little bodies.. and the small amount of food I left out did disappear (although whether it was them or cats I can't tell).

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    I have now managed to get them to eat catfood three times today - so I think that I can safely say that a) they will eat it and b) they know where it is. So I can get some dog food (better for them) tomorrow, safe in the knowledge that I WON'T have to chuck the can away... again!

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    Then you catch them, roll them in clay and bake them at the bottom of a wood fire - oops, sorry that was for my other relatives to see.

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    Don't worry Louise, as long as it's in code, you can put some pastry on it and bake it, nobody will know.
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    LOL, Eddy - some people keep pigs at the end of the garden, I just keep 'Hedge-Pigs'

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