Awww! They're baby hedgehogs.

Yes, they're baby hedgehogs, white ones. They're kept as pets by some
people.

Nanny

Looks like baby hedgehogs to me. Just put hedgehog into a Google images
search, and you'll get a few more just like those.

What cuties! As others have already posted, they're hedgehogs. I never saw
pictures of baby hedgehogs before. My jury is out on whether hedgehogs
fall into the "exotic animals that might not make ideal pets" category,
since I just plain don't know enough about them. But no wonder people took
an interest in making pets of them... they're adorable little critters!

Donna, and the far-less-prickly Captain and Stanley

They are baby hedgehogs!!    By pure coincidence, I was looking at the
Wikipedia entry on hedgehogs a day or two ago, and that very same
picture was on the page.  I think hedgehogs are cute as all get-out.
;)

Theresa
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What bizarre little creatures those hedgehogs are! They look like
something out of Harry Potter!

Hedgehogs, aren't they?  (I'm not sure we have them in the
U.S. - they're similar to porcupines, but a different animal.)

They are hedgehogs, and very baby ones at that.  Even at that young age they
will curl up in response to a perceived threat.  An older one can curl up
more tightly than that, which is great if they are threatened by a dog, or a
badger - badgers "really" like to eat them - but it's not so good if they
curl up when they are crossing the road and a car is coming :-(
They are native here in the UK, and nocturnal.

When Kitty FC was still living outside because I had my whippets, I used to
feed her twice a day in a little wooden hut in the garden and I would
sometimes see a hedgehog eating her food if she happened to be somewhere
else when I put it out.
There was a standoff once.  Kitty arrived a little late for her supper and a
hedgehog was already slurping up her food.  She was not best pleased and
approached the saucer with a view to taking control of it.
Now, when hedgehogs start to curl up they do it head first, straight between
their legs.  So picture this. Kitty approaches the hedgehog which is eating
her ownfood, unfortunately she decided to do it head to head, the hedgehog
immediately curled when it saw her so near and by doing so, it's head pushed
forward and she was spiked with a hundred needles right on her face.
It was a pure accident of course but for the rest of her time outside if a
hedgehog happened to be dining from her saucer before she got there, she
would just sit back until it had finished!
Hedgehogs hibernate during the winter, but they have to be at least over a
pound (more than 500 grams)  in weight to survive.  Some litters are born
too late in the year to get up to survival weight before the winter.
Nuele, my friend in Germany, is at present looking after a baby hedgehog
that weighs 380 grams.
I apologise if this is far too much information about hedgehogs.  My excuse
is - I like them!  I have made a place for them to hibernate in my garden.
Yes, like Helen says, they are alive with fleas.  It's the first thing that
needs be sorted if they come into a rescue facility.

Tweed

They're very cute aren't they... but it looks like the caption should
be 'What's REALLY inside a chestnut...'

~~jXwXeXrXmXoX...@sonic.net~~

Does no one else find it slightly amusing that the poster of the
hedgehog pictures has a 'sonic.net' email address?  ::grin::

Cheers,
Azy!

"In fact, the kind of people I personally gravitate toward are dog
people. They're usually guests, generally allergic, and often too
polite to neglect a quick scratch betwixt the ears before shooing me
along." ~Mr. Fleas, www.housecatwisdom.blogspot.com

They're very cute!  They look like someone crossed a puppy with a sea
urchin.

African pygmy hedgehogs, to be exact.  Chestnut is probably the color
variant.
They make great pets - much like a guinea pig.  They tend to carry skin
mites, though, so you need to get one from a breeder that will
guarantee that the stock if mite-free.  They don't stink too badly, and
are easy to handle and care for.

I gave my Mom one for Mother's Day one year (I think it was).  She
named him Kato Kaelin, as it was around the time of the OJ trial and he
looked just like his namesake. :)
-L.

One of my earliest memories is of a hedgehog that had wandered into our
front garden in England (which makes me less than four and a half). Dad woke
my sister and I up very early on a frosty cold morning, and we went out to
see the hedgehog in the garden withour eiderdowns wrapped around us.

The next thing I remember is my mother screaming at us - we had gone back
inside and fallen asleep in front of the fireplace, and our eiderdown
covered were scorching.

Poor old Dad was in the doghouse for weeks (my Dad and Dave Y should  have
started a doghouse club), but I treasure the memory of our hedgehog. I
thinkt hey're adorable critters, and the Australian Echidna, whilst the same
idea, just isn't the same.

Yowie

goodness,they are cute!