Hedgehog Pool Party

awwww cute, 5 little animals desperatly trying not to drown.....

That was my feeling exactly norgler!

Same feeling here.. they're not having a pool party, they are swimming for their lives !

I watched a 30 Rock commercial for that?

I love the comments. Did you really think you would see a pool party?

Hedge hog torture is not nice.

Yeah, I thought these things were not supposed to get wet? I thought it was bad for them..?

exactly, don't get them wet, and don't feed them after midnight

why is this on Neatorama? I vote to delete this awful post, and we go over to that person's house and kick some sense into them.

If you know anything about hedgehogs, you know that you need to bathe them on a regular basis and that they are great swimmers.

Over the years I've notice about Neatorama. The stories can be categorized three ways;

*really neat

*nerdy to the point of some sort of autistic-like obsessive fixation (the kind adults usually grow out of, autistic or not)

*entirely stupid and/or pointless

I feel that this story is of my third category. I do like hedgehogs though, they're so cute !

I'm just outraged by the location and proximity of that person's toothbrush. Yuck!

Hedgehogs can swim, yes. But they don't do it for fun they do it out of necessity. You'll notice that all those hogs seem to be trying to get out of the basin and when one manages to escape their "kind" keeper puts them back in. That particular animal clearly did not want to be in the water or it would not have climbed out.

I keep animals and I bathe them regularly, but I do not force any of them to swim if they don't want to. Except the fish.

I've never had a hedgehog as a pet but is seems like they could be bathed with a gentle sprayer or a cloth or something without having to submerge them in water and traumatizing them.