Beautiful. I've seen a few lately, i always find it very exciting.
I also saw a hedgehog recently, which i chased after and plopped on my lap! In the phlegmatic way of hedgehogs it seemed entirely unperturbed by this, and let itself be stroked for a little while (after a period of scrunched up caution) and then trundled off.
Weeelll...partly it's too much of the under-7 in me (i want to hug him and kiss him and call him GEORGE. Hello George!)
And partly i think that hedgehogs are quite relaxed, unworried things - i think they know that very few things can eat them, and i feel that they are not worried by me picking them up and bugging them for a few minutes. It's one of the things i rather like about hedgehogs. I wouldn't do that to a fox! I think they would be very worried by that. Not to mention that they'd bite me (and quite right, too!).
To clarify, it was beetling quickly across the road that i was cycling along, so i didn't really chase the hedgehog, more ran after it to catch up, after hopping off my bicycle, before it disappeared into the bushes.
yes, i understand the urge to cuddle hedgehogs *nods* i do find i have to suppress it, and to suppress even just my desire for it - i think they pick up on it and get a bit more nervous, than if you're able to meet them as just themselves without wanting them so much... like many of us, i guess *smiles*
i think hedgehogs are as nervous as foxes in their own ways - they both have different ways of dealing with it. i think the hedgehog's limited by its size and speed (tho they are fast, that's only as fast as their relatively short legs will carry them), so rather than running and size and biting (of a fox or human), they're option is to curl up until the threat goes away, and hope that whatever it is is put off by the spines in the meantime.
i'm glad to hear the hedgehog was crossing quickly *smiles*
*smiles* i think perspective/where (my) mind meets matter has something/much to do with this... tho it is true, i live a magical existence *smiles* and do, go/come frolick! *smiles*
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I also saw a hedgehog recently, which i chased after and plopped on my lap! In the phlegmatic way of hedgehogs it seemed entirely unperturbed by this, and let itself be stroked for a little while (after a period of scrunched up caution) and then trundled off.
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And partly i think that hedgehogs are quite relaxed, unworried things - i think they know that very few things can eat them, and i feel that they are not worried by me picking them up and bugging them for a few minutes. It's one of the things i rather like about hedgehogs. I wouldn't do that to a fox! I think they would be very worried by that. Not to mention that they'd bite me (and quite right, too!).
To clarify, it was beetling quickly across the road that i was cycling along, so i didn't really chase the hedgehog, more ran after it to catch up, after hopping off my bicycle, before it disappeared into the bushes.
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i think hedgehogs are as nervous as foxes in their own ways - they both have different ways of dealing with it. i think the hedgehog's limited by its size and speed (tho they are fast, that's only as fast as their relatively short legs will carry them), so rather than running and size and biting (of a fox or human), they're option is to curl up until the threat goes away, and hope that whatever it is is put off by the spines in the meantime.
i'm glad to hear the hedgehog was crossing quickly *smiles*
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