Hello, and welcome to Weird, Gross, and Beautiful,

a casual discussion about animals

that I think are weird, gross, and beautiful, or all three.

And today we're talking about little hedgehogs.

Also, we have a new set.

So deal with that.

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Hedgehogs are illegal to own in Pennsylvania, California,

Georgia, Hawaii, and Nebraska.

Really?

What the [BLEEP]?

Hedgehogs were originally domesticated

in 4 BC for the purposes of killing them

for meat and quills.

They are called hedgehogs because when they are rummaging

through a hedge, if you will, they make little snorting

sounds like a hog, and that's really cute.

They just go oink, oink, oink.

Oh, they're so little.

Baby hedgehogs are called hoglets.

Stop it, stop it!

Guys, I think we have to rename the show to Catie Thinks

Everything is [BLEEP]ing Cute.

They have really bad eyesight, so they probably all

need glasses.

That's so cute!

So when one sense isn't so super duper,

then the other ones are usually a little bit elevated.

They have amazing senses of hearing and smell,

so that's good.

The can run up to six feet per second, and that's also cute.

Because they're little fat, and they're just like squish,

squish, squish.

But they're fast little prickle prackles.

They eat all of the nasty [BLEEP] in your garden

that you don't want.

That's why they've been called the gardner's friend,

because they eat things like snails and slugs

and mice, which is sad.

But also like bugs, frogs, insects, and worms,

and all those things that gardeners are I like, you!

Get out of my garden!

And the hedgehog comes and he's like, Oink!

Oink!

I would love to eat those things!

And they're like, You!

I like you!

So when hedgehogs they get scared,

they will curl up into their little prickly balls,

and they will sleep that way also, at the day time.

And then they will go hunting at night

for all of the creepy crawlies and stuff.

Hedgehogs have around 5,000 prickly spines,

and they will shed them once a year.

And they're like, super flexible,

and they get erected by muscles underneath.

And they've got little balls at the end of them

so that they can go doot, doot, doot.

They're hollow.

They're probably hollow because otherwise they'd be heavy.

So that's probably why that matters.

This is a very sad, sad fact.

If a hedgehog nest gets disturbed,

then mama hedgehog will eat her hedgehog babies.

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Show just got dark.

On that super depressing not, I think

that that's all I have for you today.

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My name is Catie Wayne, and if you would like to,

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And this episode was suggested to us by Matt.

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There's just so many things that you could do.

So do all the things that I ask you to do, please.

I love you all, and I'll see next time.

Bye, mwah!

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