14 responses to “Life among the hedgehogs

  1. sue

    I can’t resist saying this : they are so very cute.

  2. My neighbors are very happy that I’m not a oh-so-cute-squeak-girlie, but use a keyboard to type they-are-cool-fellows – otherwise they might have frowned a little.

  3. Ahhhhhh!!!! They’re lovely – and they’ve got great homes, by the way! Can you build me a human-size one, please, Mig?

  4. paul

    Perhaps you could set up a webcam and start your own pay-per-view baby hedgehog cam.

  5. mig

    Would you prefer the straw bedding, David, or the shredded newspaper?

  6. j-a

    ARGH! THEY ARE SO CUTE! oh boy.

  7. I ADORE hedgehogs!!! What wonderful pictures! I have hedgehog envy now, I believe.

  8. Oh, the shredded newspaper, please, so that I have something to read. (Well, lots of very short words, at least.)

  9. How absolutely adorable! Thanks for posting them.. I got my fix. :)

    You.. you.. 5th baby hedgehog neglector, you. Poor baby hedgehog. His brothers and sisters were stolen away quite suddenly by the huge hand in the sky that smelled oddly like meat and rubber and then he shivered away all by himself.. lonely.. alone.. in the dark. *sigh*

  10. mig

    Yeah, he sticks pretty close to his mom now. I wonder if that would apply to kids – maybe if you give them a good scare when they’re little, you don’t have to worry about them wandering off at the mall after that.

  11. Either that or they (the kids) would get extra busy sharpening their spines, in case it happens again.

    Thanks for the photos. Your stories are almost like being there, but with hegehogs (and their houses! my stars, those are great hedgehog huts!) we all know the cuteness factor will be too great not to see.

    So. Um. What does one feed a hedgehog? Minced baby mice? Worms? What exactly do hedgehogs root around for, that you might have dug up for them and put into their bowl?

  12. mig

    Basically catfood, except there’s a picture of a hedgehog on the can and it costs more. There is also a dry mix they eat when the other stuff runs out, which looks like muesli / granola would if your kitchen had a real bad mealworm problem. Out in nature, I hear they are little omnivores, eating nuts and berries (I will soon be chopping nuts for them, which I am told they love) and other fruit as well as grubs and slugs. Someone else told me, though, that they don’t eat slugs… who knows.

  13. beta

    what about the hedgehog hacienda??

  14. mig

    the hedgehog hacienda wasn’t constructed yet when I took those pictures. I shall rectify that soon. It is a single-level Spanish-style duplex, with separate living and eating quarters, described in the “dip in the pool” post above, I believe.