Happy Birthday Muffin!!

Muffin is 1 Year!

Happy Birthday, big girl!

One year ago, during the night, I got waken up by Cuddle, my labrador, who was barking. My dog does not bark for nothing. Cuddle does not bark to respond to the other dogs of the neighbourhood. He barks when there is someone at the gate or when there is a strange animal teasing him.

And here, what do I see in his mouth? a spiky ball. It is not the first time. Usually I free the spiky animal. But here it is so small, like a chicken egg. so small. That day, Ben was not here and I really wanted to show him this little one. As I did not know what to do with it, I put it in a box and went on the internet to find info about hedgehogs. i let it there for the night.

The following morning, i run to the pet store to buy cat food as i find out this food is well adapted to hedgies.

I finally take little hedgie in my hand and it unrols... It is a girl! She cannot be more than 6 weeks and she has a funny little nose. It will be muffin. I am waiting to show her to Ben. At the same time I am worrying, she is young and I do not know if she can eat by herself. There was no sign of the mother in the garden as Cuddle did not bark again. I try to make her drink with a seringe. Not easy but it works. she is so cute. She gets her first bath and she lets me take away the ticks that are bothering her.

That day Muffin was less than 60 grams. She is now between 410-440 and won't grow anymore. She is a pygmye hedgehog and is an attraction. She is cute and enjoys sleeping behind my laptop (it is hot there). She is funny and still manage to amaze us everyday.... she enjoys exploring our desks which are uselly full of art supplies, papers, laptops, scanner, camera gears.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUFFIN!

Comments

[Shoshanah]

muffin is the cutest thing i've ever seen! happy birthday, muffin!

[Mike Jennings]

Thank you for posting Muffin's story. It is even better than I imagined. I'm really glad she got herself a good life after a bad day.