OT:Hedgehog

I looked out a little while ago and saw a hedgehog on my patio, I took a
picture which I posted to a,b.p.a. ten minutes later I looked out and there
was two of them, I hope that means I'll soon see babies.

MaryL...

How delightful! I looked at your photo and hope you will soon be able to
get some of a "family." Hedgehogs are not indigenous to the Americas, so I
have only seen them in captivity -- not nearly the same as seeing them free,

sriddles...

Adrian, I can't get abpa, but I'd love to see your hedgehog. I love
most all wildlife, and I have never seen a hedgehog! Can you email it
to me please? sriddles at aol dot com.

Marina...

I get abpa, but I didn't get Adrian's picture, just the replies. Could I
please have it by e-mail, too (marina dot kurten at iki dot fi)? I love
hedgies. We used to have many hedgie visitors when I was a child, but I
haven't seen any since I started living in high-rise buildings.

Sherry

sriddles...

Oh my gosh. It's so cute! Is that bristly fur, or is it quills like a
porcupine? I bet the babies are *really* cute. Hope you get some of
picso f them!

wafflycat...

Snufflers have short, sharp spines. Not quills, not fur. When the babies are
born, their spines are soft (I'll bet mummy hedgehogs are pleased about this
aspect of their biology...) but quickly harden & become sharp. Snufflers are
also *infested* with fleas - even the babies, as they become infested
shortly after birth by fleas from parent. At least the fleas are host
specific... and won't infest human or feline :-) Also the gardeners' friends

MatSav...

Those fleas must be VERY large! ;-)

as they munch happily on slugs & snails. They shouldn't be given the food
suggested in old wives' tales of bread & milk and nor should they be given a
cat or dog food with fish in it, but they can have 'ordinary' cat or dog
food.

Cheers, helen s

in their natural habitat.

Kreisleriana...

How do they have babies? Very carefully. ;)

Theresa

Make Levees, Not War

Yowie...

Waaah! I can't get apba. Can you please please please send me the picture?

One of my earliest memories is of seeing a hedgie. Dad was going off to work
(we were still in England) and saw a hedgie in our front garden. He woke my
sister and I up, and we came downstairs wrapped in our eiderdowns because it
was cold outside.

When we came back in, it was too hard to go back downstairs so we slept in
front of hte fire in the sitting room - scaring my mother by not being in
our beds, and scorching our eiderdowns from the fire.

But I have been in love with hedgies ever since.