Many animals at Stapeley are
small and furry, but I cannot overlook the cute and prickly!!
My earliest hedgehog memory is of
Beatrix Potter’s Miss Tiggywinkle. In the back of my mind when handling these
prickly hogs is the image of them wearing a mop cap and doing the laundry (read
Miss Tiggywinkle for further info.)
With the ability to startle even
the most experienced handler with sudden grunts and twitchy-jumps (behavioural
defence mechanism; it’s not all about curling up into spiny balls you know!),
the hedgehogs are weighed and monitored daily. Today I hand fed some of the
smallest but not a mop cap in sight!!
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