This Is Really Bothering Me

[pastafreak]

A hedgehog with its own Instagram account...it's kept as a pet in the US. Probably legal...as it is here. But why oh why is it out in daylight?

https://www.picuki.com/profile/hedgeinahedge

[woofgang]

Because some nasty person wants to make use of an animal. Its not legal to keep English hedgehogs as pets in the Uk

[pastafreak]

I know, but apparently African Pygmy hedgehogs are allowed. I wonder why?

[DTCwordfan]

With what Boaty feeds his equivalent of the Balders' array, I'm not surprised that they sleep the day and come out at night. I wonder if the Kent crew do that - gin through the night and then plenty of zzzzs after breakfast>

[sherrardk]

I’m not happy about that either but I do remember that when we visited Tiggywinkles regularly that their hedgehogs used to be about in the daytime (bit pointless visiting otherwise).

[237SJ]

I`ve seen hedgehogs out in the daylight. It's not that unusual.

[sherrardk]

237SJ, Any native hedgehog out in the day is in trouble and you’re advised to get attention for it.

[pastafreak]

I suppose if the hedgehogs are out because they want to...(yeh, yeh, I know animals cannot make choices as we do, but you know what I mean) then that's different than some idiot human dragging them out to play dress up.

[pastafreak]

I wonder if these African hedgies are different in their habits.

[237SJ]

I`ve seen lots of hedgehogs with their babies trundling across the fields in daylight in my youth. I`m more concerned that people in America consider them as pets

[sherrardk]

We are talking about a country where 7% of the adult population think chocolate milk comes from brown cows :)

[pastafreak]

And a country that allows cats to be de-clawed.

[Old_Geezer]

Probably suffering from insomnia.

[237SJ]

And a country where dogs were de barked (or they did when my cousin lived there) I don`t want to *** off Americans though. No country is perfect.

[pastafreak]

^^^^I can do it! ;))

[burlyshirley]

I saw a hedgehog out in broad daylight many years ago and promptly took it to a vet, as I'd heard they shouldn't be out and about in daylight. They gave it a good check over and kept it in for several hours to make sure it was alright and then gave it back to me. I released it where I had found it and hope it lived fdor a very long time.