I Go to a Boarding School

@eftelingrose I just have to add in reference to “Boys Alone”... Save the hedgehogs, don’t Hunt the Hedgehog! I went to a petting zoo this past Saturday while I have been visiting the North Woods region of the US, and in the nursery area of the zoo, there were two pens of baby hedgehogs! 💖 There were three babies sleeping in a little secure trinity at the back of their cage. However, I still decided to reach my hand in (it was allowed by the employees if a cage door was already open!). When I went to stroke the back of one of the hedgehogs, I was surprised by how the quills were not quite as spiky as I anticipated, and they were more like grains of dried rice, as they were rounded-off. At about the moment I touched him or her, though, I almost instantly regretted it, as it shuddered like a child, and I felt as if she was saying “Oh!” in alarm. 😞 I gave her an apology, and came back to the cage a little later. This time, the hedgehogs had more energy, and walked around, scratched themselves like a dog or a rabbit, and even ate some dried corn and bits of a cake cone that I dropped in for them earlier. I was told by one of the employees that it was rare for the hedgehogs to have this energy during the day, as they tend to be nocturnal animals. I took this as a good thing, and that the creatures were reciprocating my feelings of love and awe for them! 🤗 Here they are asleep in the trinity as the cutest things! 💖 Again, Save the Hedgehogs! They’re like children. ☺

@eftelingrose They are so cute 🤗 I don't know what it is about hedgehogs, but they seem destined to be bullied and harassed by boys and other animals 🙄 My neighbour's cat used to terrorise hedgehog visitors to our garden. He would steal the water and biscuits we left out for them (admittedly they were cat biscuits) and when he found one he would frighten it into rolling up in a ball and the roll it around the garden with his paws like a football 😟

I am so glad that you think they are cute! I know, hedgehogs always seem to be at the mercy of boys and predator animals. 😕 That is sad that your neighbor’s cat found fun in terrorizing the hedgehogs who came to your garden. The meanie, taking the food that was rightfully theirs... Ugh! And then he kicks them around like a football! 😫 A little bear cub or little bunny wouldn’t dare do such a thing! Thank you for your prior help in aiding the hedgehogs, my dear sister! 💖

@SW-User Yes, there are autistic students at our school. I used to get bullied at my old school, but life is much better here because there is no toleration of bullying and there are staff with training to help more vulnerable people 🙂

@liondog Their cotton socks are scrunched up and scattered all over the floor, the little horrors! 😄