Attila the Hedgie

This hedgie is ready to take charge

                Well, Henriette isn’t the timid little creature I thought she was going to be.  She has become a very confident, don’t-mess-with-this-woman kind of hedgehog.  Last night in her playpen she decided to show the cats who is boss.  She ran up to Frank, huffed, and charged…and boy, did he get out of her way fast.  He wasn’t taking any chances of getting spiked by a 4” ball of quills.  Once Henriette saw how effective that was, she repeatedly huffed and charged at Frank and Toby.   It wasn’t that she wanted to be in the corners they were in, she was just enjoying her new found power.  Poor Toby completely panicked when she barreled right under his tummy.  You could tell he really wanted to jump and run but he didn’t want to land on his best buddy.  Fortunately she wasn’t spiked at the time so no damage was done to either. 

                After watching this unfold for a while, I went back to reading a book on my Kindle.  I was sitting on a floor chair next to the playpen when suddenly I felt a hedgehog walk across my lap.  Hedgehogs aren’t supposed to be able to climb but apparently Henriette can (unless Frank helped her over the fence when I wasn’t looking).  I suspect this pet-sitting gig isn’t going to be as easy as I was told.

                Anyway, there are two morals of this story.  The first is that even if you are small, you can still be mighty!  The second is just because someone told you that you can’t do something, doesn’t mean that it’s true so don’t be afraid to give it a try.