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I just spent the night nursing a cushion tassel thinking it was a baby hedgehog

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PhoenixIsFlying · 27/02/2021 14:56

Ok so my back is currently in spasm so am blaming my high strength painkillers for being such an idiot. Last night after letting the dogs out for a wee they became incredibly excited and it was because there was a hedgehog outside. I quickly got the dogs in and the hedgehog went on it's merry way. I was in the living room watching lots of episodes of Doc Martin (my new fav programme). I looked down and saw a small white soft spiky thing. I picked it up and panicked it was the shape of a baby hedgehog but white. I googled baby hedgehogs it looked the same. I was awake until 3 am cradling and keeping warm a cushion tassel. Googling and learning all about how to care for a baby hedgehog. FFS what a moron 🤣 I only realised this morning in the daylight what it was.

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Dinkydody · 27/02/2021 20:47

This made my night GrinGrin

Florawest · 27/02/2021 20:46

What wonderful stories here, hope your back behaves itself and gets better soon, lovely to read about the kindness all around us to real and the not so real animals 😂.

That baby hedgehog picture is adorable, went for a walk today and was nearly in a bush trying to get a photo of a lovely little bird, few cars passed and people probably wondering what was wrong with me, oh and of course didn't get the picture.

WickyWackyWooWa · 27/02/2021 20:26

I once spent a whole week watering plastic plants (as well as real ones). The man who usually did it was away on holiday and once back had to empty all the water out of the pots.

Not even medication related. The plastic plants did look real though Blush

WingingItSince1973 · 27/02/2021 20:10

Thank so much for cheering me up. I'm in pain with back spasms too. I have coedine/paracetamol mix, naproxen and diazapam. Its awful isn't it. My back spasmed while I was putting my knickers on this morning! My poor 14 year old daughter 🤣 Hope yours eases soon xxx

Seriously79 · 27/02/2021 20:09

Absolutely roaring! 😂🤪😂🤪 thank you x

ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 27/02/2021 20:02

Brilliant!

firstimemamma · 27/02/2021 19:59

That's hilarious!

Cactuslockdown · 27/02/2021 19:56

You are not alone. I used to volunteer at a wildlife hospital. One evening a lady came in very concerned about a baby hedgehog, she’d driven about 10 miles to get to us and the ‘hedgehog’ was all bundled up in a shoebox... it was in fact a one of those round spiky seed pods from a plane tree Blush

RavingAnnie · 27/02/2021 19:51

😂😂😂😂😂

I was feeling flat and miserable. Thanks for cheering me up lol!!!!

MyGhastIsFlabbered · 27/02/2021 19:33

@WankmasterBastardDeLaShithead I was the same with DP. He had absolutely no idea what I was trying to tell him because I was laughing too much at the sheep shit fungus!!

sunshineandshowers21 · 27/02/2021 19:20

oh, this is so funny! i’m in the bath laughing my head off whilst my kid is shouting through the door demanding to know what’s so funny. definitely the kind of thing i’d do though. i once looked out my bedroom window and thought i saw my cat lying motionless by the kerb. in a blind panic i ran out in a nightie and no shoes, in front of all the morning traffic... to find out it was a bloody football! i didn’t have any glasses on, so it took me right until i was in front of it to realise that it wasn’t the cat. i bet all the cars watching were wondering what the hell i was doing!

fairgame84 · 27/02/2021 19:16

Reminds me of the woman on the local Facebook page that found an escaped chinchilla behind the local tesco. It looked unwell so she took it in and kept it warm and was trying to find its owner.

Turns out it was in fact a rat and the pest controllers had put down bait at tesco the day before so it was actually a dying poisoned rat.

Stoppissingonmyheather · 27/02/2021 19:02

Hahahaha

Slub · 27/02/2021 19:02

I was once kept at bay for an entire day from entering our conservatory by a mahoosive spider . DH gets home from work and picked up a bit of spidy shaped fluff Blush

LunaHeather · 27/02/2021 18:56

OMD i bet there's money in this. Didn't people have pet rocks? Pet pom poms could be a thing.

LunaHeather · 27/02/2021 18:55

@tapdancingmum

I posted on my local Facebook page asking if anyone was out for a walk to check on the hedgehog I saw on the verge. About 3 people did and very kindly reported they had taken care of the pompom that had been left there 😀 We nearly had a 'save the pom-poms page' and everything....
😂😂😂😂 But why are there so many abandoned pom poms?
tapdancingmum · 27/02/2021 18:45

I posted on my local Facebook page asking if anyone was out for a walk to check on the hedgehog I saw on the verge. About 3 people did and very kindly reported they had taken care of the pompom that had been left there 😀 We nearly had a 'save the pom-poms page' and everything....

WorraLiberty · 27/02/2021 18:38

Perhaps it was the pain killers then OP and your lack of electricity

Either way I hope you feel better soon

LunaHeather · 27/02/2021 18:35

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Yes, they do look the same.

InFiveMins · 27/02/2021 18:35

This has really cheered me up OP.

LunaHeather · 27/02/2021 18:35

I hope you feel better soon

But I would keep the "hedgehog" and stick eyes and nose on it to make you laugh.

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PhoenixIsFlying · 27/02/2021 18:34

WorraLiberty I do understand that it seems odd not to know but it was dark at night and I was in pain. The dogs had also just disturbed a hedgehog in the garden. These baby hedgehogs dont look unlike what I found.

I just spent the night nursing a cushion tassel thinking it was a baby hedgehog
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PrincessTuna · 27/02/2021 18:30

"gently stroking it with warm water" Grin

Brilliant OP!

AlfonsoTheTerrible · 27/02/2021 18:28

@Ihopeyourcakeisshit

You sound lovelyGrin I hope your back improves soon Flowers
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PinkBuffalo · 27/02/2021 18:25

[quote AlwaysLatte]@Knittedfairies that's what I meant 😂[/quote]
😂
Hope your back feels better soon op,but thank you for making me laugh

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