Comments on: Hedgehog Hotel

By: mig

mig — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:53:00 +0000

HEdgehogs don’t use toiletries, man. Not real hedgehogs.

By: mig

mig — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:52:23 +0000

IF the towels are on the floor, that means he wants them washed.

By: D

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:49:18 +0000

Do you replace the towels and toilettries every day or only on request?

By: anne

anne — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:30:12 +0000

jessica- drey (or dray) which means nest, or scurry, apparently. i like scurry, although i might find myself unable to discuss your scurry of squirrels after a few fine single malt beverages.

hedgehogs come in an array. i love collective nouns, they prove that somebody out there has even more free time than i do.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:43:11 +0000

I dose my coeterie of squirrels (what is the collective noun for squirrels, I wonder? a chitter? a fluff?) with organic citrus-y fresh flea repellent. The local pet stores stock special shampoos and flea/tick powder for ferrets, even though they are anima non grata here in California. I bet the hedgehogs wouldn’t mind being doused with a little delouser.

By: mig

mig — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:42:28 +0000

We installed a couple late-fall stragglers in our cellar years ago. I enjoyed building them an educational habitat in the corner of the furnace room, with limbs and leaves and stuff, and two little leaf-filled A-frames for them to move into when they decided to hibernate. It had been a hot summer, you see, and the hedgehogs had had two batches of young, and the second batch was still too small to hibernate, at least these two were. They were fun to watch and made a huge stinking mess and finally went to sleep and we let them loose in the hills the day Gamma was born. It was fun, but I’d like to avoid it. Allegedly these houses I’m building for them are winter-proof and suitable for hibernation. We’ll see if any move in.

City hedgehogs, I like that. “What you looking at? You talking to me?”

By: anne

anne — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:32:43 +0000

there are a lot of hedgehogs here. when i first came, i was a little disturbed by what i took to be extremely large rats running around at night, but they’re actually city hedgehogs.
there are people who take care of them in the winter, when they hibernate. that would be fun for gamma, i bet. i can find more info on that if you want- aside from the fleas, it’s supposed to be very heartwarming, in a 4-H way.

also: there’s a beer here called JEZEK, too, which is not cute and flea-ridden, but instead a bit on the bitter side.