A Prickly Affair by Hugh Warwick

Author:Hugh Warwick
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-14-190024-7
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-02-29T16:00:00+00:00

And as she watched the grass, she began to notice droppings, hedgehog droppings. These are distinctive: frequently quite shiny as a result of the exoskeletons of the insects they munch up passing through their gut, they usually have one end quite blunt and the other more pointed. Not much more than a couple of centimetres long, they will often be the first indication you get of a spiky resident.

There can be a bizarre fascination with hedgehog poo. I was at a friend’s party recently when I noticed some on the patio. I went in to tell them and they wanted to see, so I led them out and explained why this was hedgehog poo. Word spread and I then spent the next half an hour accompanying at least ten other people and giving a series of impromptu lectures on the digestive system of the hedgehog.

Janis extended her grass-watching to the night in an attempt to see the defecators, and this is when she noticed that the hedgehogs were coming into her garden through a hole in her neighbour’s fence. A short time later he started to replace the old fence and refused to leave a gap for Janis’s nightly visitors. This sparked an interest that was to draw her out of her depression, and when she found a baby hedgehog late one autumn, her path to recovery was set out before her.

She did everything you are supposed to, kept it warm and well fed, bought a heat pad and transformed a rabbit hutch into a hedgehog home. By spring the hedgehog was fat and healthy and ready for release. Very quickly the word got out that there was a hedgehog lady on the block and she has not had a moment’s peace since.

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