Our 8 year old horsfield has been missing since sunday. She normally lives in a greenhouse with free access to our smallish, high-walled garden. Generally, at this time of year (we live in London, UK) she's not venturing out much, but it was very warm at the weekend and I'm guessing she was out and taken by surprise when the temperature dropped - normally she's good at getting back into her greenhouse in the evening.
So far we haven't been able to find her - I assume she's dug herself in somewhere, but there's no sign of a burrow - do they back-fill their holes? The walls around the garden go down 3ft, so I don't think she's burrowed out.
My main question is what to do with her if we find her and she's hibernnating. Should we wake her up? We would have planned to hibernate her in 3 or 4 weeks time anyway, but she hasn't been fasting, and we would have been encouraging her to drink more etc. if we'd been planning for it.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
So far we haven't been able to find her - I assume she's dug herself in somewhere, but there's no sign of a burrow - do they back-fill their holes? The walls around the garden go down 3ft, so I don't think she's burrowed out.
My main question is what to do with her if we find her and she's hibernnating. Should we wake her up? We would have planned to hibernate her in 3 or 4 weeks time anyway, but she hasn't been fasting, and we would have been encouraging her to drink more etc. if we'd been planning for it.
Any advice would be much appreciated!