D'aww I know everybody else has said this in the other thread, but I've never hheard of people keeping hedgehogs before. Are they always that timid, or do they get used to people after a while?
Yeah, they are kept as pets in North America. And they get used to people, she's starting to get used to me, she runs around with me and stuff, but she doesn't like others much yet.
Cute.. but strange as well. To me (and to most UK people) a hedgehog is a wild animal - it'd almost be like keeping a badger or a fox as a pet. Although a badger WOULD be amazingly cool as a pet.. they're lovely animals.
Awwww, I love hedgehogs. I had one before. His name was Kesha. He loved to bite my finger and then hang on it. That was hurtful! LOL! As well as I remember how he loved hanging on the curtains as well. Seeing this hedgehog makes me miss mine. We let him free in the forest. They are very good in catching croaches.
A badger recently came to go to sleep and die in my dogs (house attatched) kennel after getting kicked out of it's set. Poor thing, and poor dog for having to eat in a room with an angry badger (it was hiding under some boxes). Tiggywinkles (hedgehog/badger sanctuary people if you dunno 'em) came to take it away. They got it all sorted out, dental care. Cleaned it up and all, went to release it, it went insane. They then took it back and it went and had a heart attack later in the day. Depressing story that actually...umm...oh yeah, we saved and released a woodpecker once that got hit by a car, person thought it was a parrot lol. Yay cheery end to that.
