I wonder if St Tiggywinkle's in the UK is still going. If you found an injured hedgehog, you could give it to the local train station, and they'd make sure it got to St Tiggywinkle's for medical care.
Shelby and I have just spent twenty minutes squeeing over the Tiggywinkles website - VERY cool.
My brother and sister-in-law had a hedgehog for a while, but it didn't work out - she stepped on a quill on the floor one night, got it stuck in her foot, and eventually ended up with an infection and on antibiotics. And she was -very- careful about where she let the hedgehog out and picking up after him. So they returned it to the breeder, who was very understanding.
They do have a number of other animals - they keep turtles, and also do turtle rescue. I never realized turtles had such personalities, but they tell all kinds of stories about them. They've also kept chinchillas with good success.
I've heard very good things about rats as pets - very smart, and if raised right very personable. (Makes me think of 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents'.)
My sister and fam have a large turtle living in a spare bathtub (at least during the winter, when he sleeps). They can be very interesting, but I think it's actually illegal to keep them here.
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Date: 2006-03-29 10:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-03-29 11:29 pm (UTC)Wow.
WHY didn't my birth mother go back to England so's I coulda been born there? :sigh:
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Date: 2006-03-30 12:27 am (UTC)My brother and sister-in-law had a hedgehog for a while, but it didn't work out - she stepped on a quill on the floor one night, got it stuck in her foot, and eventually ended up with an infection and on antibiotics. And she was -very- careful about where she let the hedgehog out and picking up after him. So they returned it to the breeder, who was very understanding.
They do have a number of other animals - they keep turtles, and also do turtle rescue. I never realized turtles had such personalities, but they tell all kinds of stories about them. They've also kept chinchillas with good success.
I've heard very good things about rats as pets - very smart, and if raised right very personable. (Makes me think of 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents'.)
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