Many years ago when I was a child I found a little underweight hedgehog in my parents garden. It was autumn, near winter and I took that prickly little animal in to take care for him ( or her ) during the cold winter.I have a hedgehog house in my garden which I was given by my family for Christmas and today I finally found a hedgehog snoozing in it [emoji177]
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After I bathed him ( he had a lot of fleas ) I gave him a nice place in the cellar. He was eating well from the first day and growing fast.
He gets real tame during the winter although I only feed him, keep his place clean and don`t cuddle him. I know that I want to relaease him back in the garden in spring.
The funniest memory I have of this time was when I once gave the little animal a raw chicken egg. He loved it soooo much that be began to make a lot of bubbles by eating the egg.
I was so scared when I saw him with these bubbles all around his mouth that I called my mother the hedgehog has gotten rabies !
Naturally he was not sick and has no rabies, but I never feed him an egg again ....
In spring I released him big and fat in my parents garden and feed him there. He stays for several months and then disappeared. Maybe he was run over by a car.
Hedgehogs are very funny and lovely animals and get very tame. But their poop stinks soo much.... much more bad than any torts poop can smell, and they poop where they eat. Not very nice.
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