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[astridv]

Wow, apparently ffn is aiming to become completey useless and obsolete with their new anti-copy protection. It seems like they're actively blocking FLAG, I can't create kindle docs right now. According to the FLAG website: "FLAG is currently unable to connect to ffnet / fictionpress, and it now appears that they are deliberately blocking FLAG's infrastructure, including the new infrastructure which was provisioned this week to work around the issue until it could be sorted on their end."

Way to inconvenience your readers. It's almost as good as Disney producing DVDs that don't run on a computer.
Grmph.
Well, here's something nicer: photo of our latest baby hedgehog.

He's still tiny (that plate is cappuccino saucer size) and he was almost dead when we found him, but it looks like he's recovering nicely and you can practically watch him grow. Still way too light for hibernation but winter is still far away (hopefully).

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[jae]

Ooh, hedgehog! But wait...you found him? Do tell!

-J

[astridv]

He was lying by the roadside right next to our garden on the other side of the little fence. Seeing a hedgehog out during the daylight is a bad sign to begin with, and with this one at first I thought he was dead because he wasn't moving at all. When B. came back I showed her (she had some vet training so she knows what she's doing) and we took him in. She picked about a hundred fly eggs off his skin, really gross, and the next morning we took him to the vet where we got some fluids in him which helped a lot.

He's getting a mix of catfood and hedgehog food now. I'm trying to figure out right now how much I should feed him (B.'s not at home today). I mean, I don't want to stuff the little guy too much but of course I don't want him to go hungry either.

This is not our first hedgehog, by the way. Wait, I should have pics of our adorable triplets under this tag... *checks* ah, that entry isn't tagged, it seems. But here's another photo post: http://astridv.dreamwidth.org/198777.html#cutid1 (Also has pics of a Westphalian castle. :)

[astridv]

We also have at least one grown one in our garden. We try to put some catfood leftovers out every night. Insects are becoming rarer and the dry summer and fall makes it even harder.

[sholio]

HEDGEHOG! So cute. :) Poor little guy. I hope he does well!

[jae]

I had no idea they were so tame! I mean, I knew you could keep them as pets (one of our neighbours has one, and it turns out that one of my students this semester does too), but I figured that was a special kind that had been domesticated or something.

You're lovely to take care of them.

-J

[jae]

Jesus, are they ever cute.

-J

[astridv]

It's allowed to keep them as pets in Canada? In Germany you can't - they're classified as wildlife, and also endangered afaik. You're only allowed to take them in and feed them if they can't get fat enough to hibernate on their own, and come springtime you have to release them back into the wild. (And really, they're pretty messy animals so I can't imagine keeping one as a pet.)

[astridv]

We weighed him again today and he's already gained like 50 gramm, so that's really good.

[jae]

I think it's allowed! It's possible that it's not and that people do it anyway, though. They're not really wildlife here in the same sense, though, because they don't exist in the wild. I've only ever seen them in Europe in the wild.

-J

[naye]

This makes me wish we had a garden or something, so we could make it safe for little hedgehogs like this. It is so darling! I'm glad you guys saved him. ♥

[naye]

I'm only butting in because I've really, really wanted a domesticated hedgehog - they're different than the European ones (which you shouldn't keep as pets), so a lot of countries/provinces allow you to keep them as pets! Germany isn't listed in the Wikipedia page, so I don't know if it's one of those countries. We could have one here in the UK, except they can't get too cold or they can die, and considering we couldn't afford to keep the heating on all day all through the winter... no hedgehog for us. At least not while living in this climate. I'll have to make do with adorable pics!