While I was browsing the internet in the garden, I've suddenly heared a strange, yet very familiar noise. I've immediately stood up from my chair, with a smile on my face - I know this snorting, scraping noise very well...

Gues what...

A HEDGEHOG!

There it is:


Let's have a closer look!


A bit more closer...


Even more closer...


HELLO!


I still hear the little one moving in the bushes

There used to be one that rustled around in the bushes below my window in the summer. It used to keep me awake , i dint mind tho, all we need now is tzork to code hedgehogs for Nexuiz.

Fun times.

My friend had a pet hedgehog, apparently the damn thing was so stupid it would repeatedly shit all over its self. She gave the messy wee bugger away to some poor sod.

Do you have a name for him CB? I hope he returns, you could leave some beer out for him.

Hahaha, That would be funny.

Out of curiousity, C.Brutail, could you touch this thing or would it try to bite?

congratz with ur child, is it a boy?

Chubby wrote:congratz with ur child, is it a boy?

Stop being naughty young man!

Flying Steel wrote:Out of curiousity, C.Brutail, could you touch this thing or would it try to bite?

Hedgehogs are very timid creatures - I've never heared that anybody got bitten by them. When attacked, they rather try to either run away, or when they are stuck in a corner, try to frighten their enemies with growling/snorting sounds.
If this fails, they roll into a spiky ball

If you move your hand from the head to the butt, following the spikes they won't sting so you can stroke the hedgy But washing your hand afterwards is strongly recommended, these little fellas carry a lot kind of parasites withing their spiky fur
Once I've found a tick as large as a pea inside a poor hedgehog. I couldn't pull it out, it was too deep within it's spikes.

yellow robot wrote:Do you have a name for him CB? I hope he returns, you could leave some beer out for him.

Lol, I don't think so hedgehogs are fueled with beer

Aww yey hedgies <3

How nice, i saw a really big one from the window last night, hurrying across the lawn. I should have bothered to go outside and make a picture :>

Loads in our garden. Last autumn we rescued a little one which wasn't going to make it through thew winter so we kept it inside until someone came to pick it up. Problem was it escaped indoors!

I wonder what became of him Ed.....

The only hedgies i have seen have sadly been spread as roadkill.

yellow robot wrote:I wonder what became of him Ed.....

We found him under my Dad's desk and put him in a bigger box.

.........

True story.

They have returned!

Now, I've made a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3mO3RKggtQ

Unfortunately, the video is not the best quality, but that's all I have.
Probably it's the mother and it's little one. I was sitting on the ground, the larger one passed me by by only 10 centimeters. There could probably be a third one around, that's why I'm "looking" in the dark so often with the camera in the beginning of the movie. Unfortunately, the sound quality is not the best either, but you can hear the snorting noise with the smaller one cryes for it's mother, and the squeeking replies of the mother.
In the end, the two hedgies went on their ways. It's funny to look at the mother in the end, how she makes sure I mean no harm to her little one, and then leaves on the very same route where the other one left.

(Awww). Man the mother is massive. Hail CB, Friend of the hoggs!!!

Your video is ace. I was out once, nightly photographing some graveyard and a hedgehog came by. All of my shots returned almost black. (lame digital camera)

I'm sick of pants digital cameras, (esp when trying to get a good photo for those dating sites not that i use them) once there was a fox sleeping ontop of my shed in the sun during the day but sadly I did not get a good shot thanks to me crud cam.

Hehh. And gues what: this was made whit my sony-ericsson k750i