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

[PhoenixIsFlying]

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.

Bless you. A place in heaven surely awaits.

To be honest I dont actually know if it is a cushion tassel but it a tassel or something similar.

Oh, bless you - this is brilliant!!

Were you relieved or disappointed?

I think it’s a teasel. That’s a seed head from a plant not a baby weasel btw. 😂

When one of my dses was a baby, and occasionally co-slept with us, I turned over in bed one night, being very careful to lift the baby over me, supporting his head. Very sensible, I’m sure you are thinking.

But the baby was in his basket, and I was carefully supporting the head of a stray teddy bear that had ended up in our bed.

And I wasn’t on any strong painkillers at the time, so can only blame the tiredness of new baby broken nights.

Must have been the co codamol fuzzing with my brain.

I've taken cocodamol x2 and tramadol x2 - never again. I'm barely sentient - I would definitely have made a similar misidentification.

I’ll have some of whatever you’re on too please I could do with seeing some sweet little hedgehogs in cushion tassels today!

What will you feed it? Does it need walked?

Many moons ago when I was a young girl I crept across the landing to my parents room and quietly woke my dad to tell him burglars were trying to get in.
It was our new hamster going round and around in his wheel.

Last time I took cocodamol I couldn't shake the feeling my hands had been swapped with each other. Horrible.

So sorry you're in pain OP but this is the best thread in ages

Oh FFS this is priceless

Thank you OP.

Our village community page was all up in arms recently because someone thought they'd spotted a BABY LEOPARD which looked asi if it had been run over in one of the lanes.

A search party revealed it to be an old wet dressing gown

What a lovely ,kind person you are .Especially when in pain !

BUT ..as said above ,you need muscle relaxant/few doses of valium to sort out the spasm .You have to contact GP .

@MrsMoastyToasty

Many moons ago when I was a young girl I crept across the landing to my parents room and quietly woke my dad to tell him burglars were trying to get in. It was our new hamster going round and around in his wheel.

I once woke my dad to tell him someone was standing in the flowerbed under my bedroom window (we lived in a bungalow), and he went outside with a torch to confront the intruder, only to find a slug noisily munching his way through mum’s plants.

This is hilarious😂

😂

I took too much codeine by accident once and ended up watching little people tango across my ceiling, so i don’t blame you!

Oh, that's so lovely - and funny. A friend of mine once stopped all the traffic on a very busy road to run out and save a hedgehog. When she reached it, it was an upside down scrubbing brush.

My only suggestion is to not mix those drugs with alcohol.

Safety first!

Someone thought this was an escaped leopard - turned out someone’s dressing gown fell off whilst she was doing the school run!

Story here

peridito thank you. I had an emergency gp telephone appointment yesterday and was hoping for some sort of muscle relaxant but just said to continue with prescribed strength co codamol that I already had and hot water bottle. To be honest it's not really touching the pain. X

I'm crying laughing 🤣 oh god, this is hilarious

A search party revealed it to be an old wet dressing gown
Love it!
I whistled at & almost called out, "Dinner time!" to a neighbour's bin. I thought it was the cat.

The annoying thing was that a few days later I almost did it again.

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