Washing A Hedgehog

I visited my brother’s place at Christmas, 2005, and was lucky enough to witness a hedgehog-washing. I captured it for posterity with my cell phone.

This is the way you wash a hedgehog, wash a hedgehog, wash a hedgehog…

Courtesy of Tara Chiu (my sister-in-law), and my handy cell phone while I was visiting her and my brother…

First you take a hedgehog.

Then you get it wet. (Fortunately, they can swim.)

Let it run under the water for a minute. (Look at those little legs paddling away!)

Rub in some baby shampoo. Carefully. Those things are prickly!!

Rinse under running water.

We are not a happy hedgehog.

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Making up afterwards

Voila! One happy, healthy, freshly washed hedgehog.

Hedgies are so cute!