They’re also born with soft quills that don’t get stiff til after birth :)
Omg they are freaking adorable
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The second from the right even has a hogwart!
They’re also born with soft quills that don’t get stiff til after birth :)
You'd certainly hope so, otherwise momma hedgehog would not have a great time during birth.
Likewise horse foals are born with a gross soft covering on their hooves to protect the mother.
Google "foal slippers"
DuckDuckGo is just Bing with an extra step
Yeah, but one of those steps is "respect the user's privacy" so I'll take it.
Except DDG still allows Microsoft trackers, so not really, no.
Bing is just Google with an extra step so why use it?
No, Bing doesn't use Google's search engine.
It at one point used Google's index... I guess it wasn't directly but indirectly... I just remember hearing that they used Google's index and never looked into it
https://money.cnn.com/2009/07/29/technology/microsoft_yahoo/
https://www.clrn.org/why-does-google-keep-switching-to-yahoo/
Neither of those links support your claim ...
Unless I'm wrong... The first one says that Yahoo and Microsoft worked together and Microsoft used Yahoo's search results and such... And Yahoo at around the same time also used Google's search index to help power their searches....
I also didn't look that hard and might of missed something but
Naw it’s worse
If DDG is worse, why use it?
my first thought was "those probably feel great when you give birth to them"
So that’s how hair brushes are made!
Is it safe to pet them when they're that small, and if so what does it feel like 😄
Idk but if they’re like hamsters, you’re not supposed to touch the newborns. Wait til they open their eyes and grow some fur. Because if the mom smells your scent, she might get stressed out and eat them😅
Good to know 😬
Adult hedgehogs are also safe to pet, but only if they want to.
When I was a kid, I found one in the woods. At first it would ball up or escape when I arrived, but eventually it would fold down the spikes to let me pet it.
You can actually pet grown hedgehogs, I think if they are happy the needles are not pointing upwards, but I might be wrong about it.
Source: visited a hedgehog café in Tokyo like 10 years ago, did pet hedgehogs.
Edit: rereading what you wrote I realise you maybe didn't imply that an adult hedgehog cannot be petted...
I'm also curious about adult ones, how would you rate the petting experience on a scale of 1 to 10
I cared for one for a few years. There is usually a difference between scared/cautious and outright aggressive (which can happen if they get too scared, or if they're an asshole lol).
When they're happy and comfortable the quills lie down and they're easy to handle and pet without getting poked. If you do get poked their incredible amounts of back skin absorb most of the force so it's more like feeling around in a pencil bag not really painful. 8/10 it's a fun texture and there is novelty to it but it's impossible to blow raspberries on their tiny tummies.
When they're balled up but not being aggressive you can pick them up if you know how. Since they mostly just quiver and the quills are uniform as long as you don't squeeze them you won't get poked too badly. 4/10 if you aren't familiar with them you're likely to turn them aggressive but if they're just being cautious it can be a lot of fun watching them poke their snoot out to inspect before unballing.
When they feel actively threatened they move their quills around, will lunge at you, and bite. The quills are not so uniform and a good lunge will absolutely draw blood. They also have surprisingly pointy teeth. 1/10 don't attempt to pick up or pet an angry hedgehog everyone involved will leave with regrets. If there isn't a choice in the matter, like maybe you're trying to give it medicine or there's a wild one stuck somewhere, leather work gloves at a minimum.
It wasn't great, but interesting. Definitely pokey still but maybe the hedgehogs weren't too happy being handled. I also read somewhere they can be quite big assholes as pets, but no idea if its true.
Edit, sorry forgot the rating. Maybe 4 of 10.
I left a longer response about my hedgehog holding experience, but wanted to add here too. For sure a lot of them are assholes but I think part of that is they're pretty anxious and scared critters a lot of times too. It can be hard to calmly reassure something while getting stabbed by it. I found for the one I cared for they'd ball every time I picked them up but as long as I didn't react sharply if I got stabbed they'd usually chill out after a minute or so
You can also pet unhappy hedgehogs, just not painlessly.
source, owned a traumatized hedgehog when I was little. tried to give it treats and get it socal but 5 past owners (some of which with cats) was too much for the little guy.
'Captain Crunch' died a grumpy old man 🫡
edit: fun fact you can see their nuts when they uncurl which was pretty funny to little me
I'm gonna call someone a hoglet next time they piss me off.
You can really see the resentment in the mother's eyes :>
Can you blame her? Even if those spikes are soft, they must still feel weird. Plus there's 7 of them!
Spiky nuggets.
Forbidden food
Is there a baby animal sub i can join?? I need this in my life
aka Urchins.
But never, never try hedgehog uni.
Ah, the mythical land urchin. Now I just need sky urchins and my collection will be complete.
What about fire urchins?
I can't be the only one who sees a bunch of tiny nut sacks.
you should go to the doctor, I don't think ballsacks are supposed to have spikes
Less the spikes and more the white hair. Reminds me of my grandpa.
HOLD UP
What a terrible day to have eyes
They're so cute.
Rambutans.
The hog rider must have balls of steel
hedgehoglet! hedgehoglet!