[MR] hedgehogs?

[David Chessler]

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Received: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:14:19 PM EDT
From: Gina Shelley <paintedwheel at hotmail.com>
To: <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Subject: Re: [MR] hedgehogs?

> 
> Hedgehogs and porcupines are not the same thing. Aysha used to have a pet
hedgehog. It was the prickliest thing I've ever seen. You couldn't hardly pick
it up. Well, Aysha could because it didn't puff up and try to stab her like it
did me. But I couldn't.
> 
> Plus, it bit. 
> 
> We were all staying over at Tsigane's one night and it got loose on my bed.
You know what you do when an angry hedgehog is running loose where you don't
want it to? Sit there and watch it, that's what you do. Because you best not
be thinking you're going to grab it. 
> 
> I'm just saying. 
> 


I believe hedgehogs are natives of the old world, exclusively. Porcupines,
which exist in North America and, I believe, Southern Africa, are notable for
"shedding" their quills, which are barbed and very difficult to remove from
flesh. They deliver their quills by swinging their tails, as well as by
getting touched. They do not "throw" their quills.