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[girlofprey]

I forgot I hadn't put the hedgehog food out and changed the water in the bowl earlier tonight, and I cleaned the water bowl out recently and didn't want it to get crusty again, so I went out to quickly do it now. I couldn't really see anything except where the water bowl was, and when I reached for the food bowl I felt something large on it. I thought maybe it was a branch that had fallen off the tree. I tried again and still felt something, and it felt like maybe a pine cone, and I didn't like touching something when I didn't know what it was. So I left it a minute, and then just reached out with my foot and tried to scoot the bowl over to me so I could see it, and I felt something with my foot. Something sort of soft but solid. And then I finally, definitely thought maybe it was an animal, and I thought maybe it was a hedgehog, and I made a series of odd noises, and then called my dad out with a torch. And it was indeed a hedgehog. Hunkered down away from us against the wall.

So. Hopefully I haven't scared that hedgehog off from coming to our food bowl ever again. But it's nice to know something's using it at least, and the thing I intended to use it in the first place.