The Dutch Hedgehog (Egel) Centre in The Hague has issued an appeal to anyone constructing pools and ditches to provide escape routes and 'gangplanks' for hedgehogs.Clearly, some hedgehogs like to imagine themselves as 'pirates' and these will head up the 'gangplanks.' The others, of course will seek the more conventional but less imaginative 'escape route.'
Although they can swim very well, hedgehogs do need something to help them get out of the water because the banks of these water traps, are normally too steep to climb.
Inflatable rubber dinghy's don't work either. Let's face it, inflatable rescue devices of any kind, are not going to work with these guys!
A Dutch Hedgehog rescue spokesman said: 'In the last week, two exhausted and half-drowned hedgehogs (egels) were saved and brought into the shelter.'
How do Hedgehogs make love, I hear you ask? Very carefully, comes the hilarious reply.
Inflatable rubber dinghy's don't work either. Let's face it, inflatable rescue devices of any kind, are not going to work with these guys!A Dutch Hedgehog rescue spokesman said: 'In the last week, two exhausted and half-drowned hedgehogs (egels) were saved and brought into the shelter.'
See! So its not just the English that are crazy for the Hedgehogs!
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