How could you not go "Awwww" at this

Chris of Arabia · Dec 4, 2007

Even cuter than otters or penguins

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=499453&in_page_id=1770

indiephoto · Dec 4, 2007

Tiggywinkles? ok now that i got that qeustion out of my system

AWWWW

Robstar1619 · Dec 4, 2007

Awwww...very cute!but i must say.. poor little things.

spiffybeth · Dec 4, 2007

awwww!

Antarctican · Dec 4, 2007

Oh my, they are terribly cute!!!! Quite possibly in the same league as penguins and otters....

LaFoto · Dec 4, 2007

Oh yes. Hedgehogs! They are terribly cute! We used to help some hibernate in the winters from 1999 to 2000 and also from 2000 to 2001.

See here (pics taken in autumn of 2000 - scans from film, and Sabine has changed a little in the past 7 years!)

http://www.fastpictures.com/images/AnniRocS/sabinehedgehog.jpg

http://www.fastpictures.com/images/AnniRocS/sabinehedgehogs.jpg

http://www.fastpictures.com/images/AnniRocS/florianhedgehog.jpg

(Posting the links only as not to really hijack your thread).

(Ghastly) Krueger · Dec 4, 2007

Poor little dudes. I'd send the link to my wife, but she'd want to fly over there to take care of them personally!

*edit: Awwwww*

LaFoto · Dec 4, 2007

Too true. Once you have had baby hedgehogs in the house to help them hibernate, you DO want to care for them personally. Ours did not have broken legs, but one of the three had pneumonia and coughed and coughed. Poor little "Erika".

She walked off a happy hedgehog in spring of 2001

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(Ghastly) Krueger · Dec 4, 2007

Hey, Corinna... the hedgehog in the 3rd pic looks really depressed... but at the same time thankful for the love received. That'a a great image... and a great thing to do

LaFoto · Dec 4, 2007

That "depressed" looking one might have been "Erika", how am I to know today. They all look the same, more or less. Her brothers "Zecki" and "Erizo" walked away after only two days, and some vet's treatment to fight their ticks and worms, but "Erika" stayed with us all winter.

The winter before, we had "Hedgie", now THAT one was ONE relaxed hedgehog after a while!!! Look:
http://www.fastpictures.com/images/AnniRocS/hedgie.jpg

And everything was all right with him. He just chose to watch TV like that! No kidding!

jstuedle · Dec 4, 2007

Our kids had pet hedgehogs. When tame, they are really good pets and very cute. My 28 Y.O. son talks often of getting some again.

(Ghastly) Krueger · Dec 4, 2007

LaFoto said:
The winter before, we had "Hedgie", now THAT one was ONE relaxed hedgehog after a while!!! Look:
http://www.fastpictures.com/images/AnniRocS/hedgie.jpg

Wow! I'd like to have a couple of minutes to look like that!