Was sitting out the back with my cat on my lap, she suddenly jumped and ran over to the corner and found this little chap, an albino hedgehog.
Was sitting out the back with my cat on my lap, she suddenly jumped and ran over to the corner and found this little chap, an albino hedgehog.
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FYI in case you don’t know. DO NOT give it milk to drink!!!!!!!
If you catch him he has to give you three wishes.
Fucking albinos, coming here taking our homes and our jobs
Great little lads. They eat those scumbag slugs.
Hedgehogs are the best. Pity most of them have been eaten by dirty awful badgers.
It shouldn’t be out in daylight. Hedgehogs are nocturnal and only come out at night. I had one in my garden yesterday. I had to take it to an animal rescue center, as it wasn’t very well.
We had one, they don’t eat fruit but they love wet cat and dog food. There’s a hedgehog rescue you can ring and they will come take them and bring them to a safe area.
I used heavy duty building gloves to lift our friend. Put her in the bath for safety for the night then waiting for collection into an animal carrier with a towel and paper and covered in a towel also to make her less stressed
Beautiful creature, thanks for posting the pic
Found a very sick one the other day laying out in the open. Had to take it to a rescue
Paint him blue
Isn’t there a rescue number that you are meant to ring if you find one during the day? Pretty sure they are nocturnal and are only out in day time if they are sick or confused.
https://youtu.be/00tWBAIv5AU
In my apartment in oslo Norway they come every summer.. First one, then one with a friend (sometimes they have their mating ritual on our porch), then later they come with the babies.. My mom would always put out water for them
(in a lowered pan in her flowerbed so not to get to close)
One year one of them walked into our apartment, sniffed around the living room then went and laid down on our dogs bed… You have never seen a more insulted dog in your life when we told her to leave it alone 😂
She had learned to leave them alone when they came in the garden but she’d be dammed if she had to do it in her own house on her bed 😂
hit it with a mallet
Sonic: the rehab years
There’s a colony of them in my garden and the dogs go mental when they come out at night looking for food
If that is a native albino hedgehog, it is very rare
Just watch out for fleas, they’re usually riddled with them
just be careful it doesn’t get in the back door
Honestly that looks like an African Pygmy hedgehog. Not native. Kept as pets. Looks to be smaller that the European hedgehogs and the colouration would be hard to survive in the wild
So lucky to see one!
We get the hedgehog on the regular, never seen one that colour to be fair. For so small as they are, it’s quite a noisy creature ❤️
Cat or dog food is a winner with hedgehogs
please take it to the nearest animal shelter.
If he’s out during daytime something is wrong
The gauntelt has been thrown down!
King Ralph has a challenger!
I haven’t seen one in town in years and a welcome sight they were, totally blasé tootled down the path and started snuffling about while I’m out the front having a quiet beer on a baking hot night.
Whats that yer on? asked the hedgehog, just Harp. The fecker tutted shook it’s head in disapproval and said I’m away next door to eat slugs and snails drowned in Guinness. Cheeky bastard.