Posted in Animals

We'd just settled the children into bed tonight and I was catching up on some reading when I looked up and out the window to see a cute little hedgehog fast trotting across our lawn - heading straight for the vegetable garden.

I rushed out with the camera. I love hedgehogs - they're so sweet. As I got closer to him he stuck his head in one of the peastraw bales to act like he wasn't there I guess. They have the cutest little faces. But does anyone know if they eat produce? Something is nibbling away at my ripening pumpkins. I was blaming the rabbits, but maybe this hedgehog is to blame. Anyone know?

Here he is: