These are British garden favourites.
Occasionally known as hedge pigs, they are much loved:
They can get quite big. Worldwide there are 16 species of hedgehog, living in Europe, North Africa, parts of Asia and New Zealand. Hedgehogs are not native to the Americas.
They'll sneak in at night and eat your slugs and left over catfood. Lots of people feed them deliberately:
When a hedgehog feels threatened, it tends to curl into a prickly ball. This dark-faced type, incidentally, is the kind most commonly seen in our gardens:
Baby hedgehogs are very tiny (at first (of course))
and very cute (once they get their spikes:
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This little baby's from New Zealand. How cute is he/she with those ears?
VIDEO ~ This type of hedgehog is called the African Pygmy. They're often kept as pets in North America:
Hedgehogs are cute but full of fleas! :(
ReplyDeleteAhhhhhh Gled, you post the cutest pictures! :D Years ago we used to have two Yorkshire Terriers and the little male one, Dandy, once cocked his leg and pittled on a hedgehog! Don't worry, it was all curled up and none the worse for it's unexpected shower. :)
ReplyDeleteI never saw a baby-baby one before! So beautiful.
ReplyDeleteOMG so cute gleds!!!!! we had hedgehogs in sweden when i lived on the farm they would come and drink milk we left out for them... i LOVE furry fridays (except when u post sad pics like abused donkey and seal getting hacked to bits) lol
ReplyDeleteYou did a good job. They look cute.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Beatrix Potter's Mrs Tiggywinkle! Much cuter than our spiny echidna!
ReplyDeleteI like the picture of the three little babies.
ReplyDeleteToo cute!
Janice~
AKELAMALU: do you know I was going to mention that, but thought it might be disingenuous to hedgehogs!
ReplyDeleteWELSHCAKES: oh aye. And those whitefaced ones are all pets, so far as I can discern...
LESLEY: we once let off a rocket, deliberately embedded in the ground. As it flared and fizzed we saw the shadow of a poor hedgehog right next to it. Poor little trotter must have got the shock of its little life ..!
SWEDEN: I try to keep them upbeat but some issues have to be raised, know what I mean ..?
DUTA: thank you. But I have to get the New Zealand one back again. That one was extra-cute
ReplyDeleteBAINO: oo aye. Never heard of a spiny echidna before though ...
JANICE: thank you ;->....
Those babies are the cutest. Thanks for sharing these pictures.
ReplyDeleteoh aye!!
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