I remember occasionally finding hedgehogs in our garden in Leeds when I was a kid. We generally used to give them bread and milk, although they eat insects, snails, frogs, toads, snakes, birds eggs, carrion, fruits, mushrooms, grass roots.
I was with an Iranian friend when she saw one for the first time, and that’s when I realised how very odd they look if you’re not used to them.
They’re related to shrews, but only distantly related to porcupines.
And I found this rather sweet story from Russia, where an abandoned baby hedgehog was adopted by a mother cat.
Hedgehogs are nice.
(They do like drinking milk, but it can make them seriously ill afterwards, so it’s best not to give it to them.)
Presumably that’s only adult hedgehogs? I think the same applies to lots of mammals, but I never thought about it with hedgehogs.