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Ever wondered what an orange looks like up close? Well, neither have I, but now you know.

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From one predominantly orange image to another. Autumn. Photo Credit Johannes Plenio.

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Out with the orange. In with the random colours.

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A sicky sweet photo of cats. Photo credit Jari Hytönen. Lola died two years ago and we still think about her every single day.

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A hedgehog.

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nice, are you getting a new pet?

No but it’s cute in its own weird way.

I did foster saved hedgehogs in my former residency. Poor fellas either starving to death due to the vastly reduced insects or because they get severely cut by those mowing robots. Here, my landlord forbid me to foster any because she fears her dogs will catch fleas from them. So I gave all my equipment away.

You need equipment to look after a hedgehog?

If you foster a non-healthy hedgehog, yes. Cause you need to feed and often enough also give meds regularly till he is in a sound healthy condition again. Nearly all of them are found in so bad conditions, they they are full of worms, fleas and other parasites. Many are found underweight in the hibernation period. Then you have to take care of them for the whole winter till May.

There are way more sick hedgehogs found than foster places. Cause humans tend to are responsible for their suffering, but not willing to take over responsibility and dodge away. If they even care to take such a poor fella with them and try at least to find a place for them. Nearly none of them participates on the costs, though. But you have to be thankful if they even sacrifice their time for bringing. As a caring person you have to learn to lay your expectation veery low on mankind.

Can they be trained?

lol as you age you learn to lay no expectation on mankind.

some yes but most are too selfish

and also to keep educating yourself because you might think you are doing what is right but meanwhile hurting the animals you love

I was talking about the hedgehog.

Or you think you are hurting animals but you’re doing right.

lol ok…wait, why would you want to train a hedgehog?!

Because I would not want to be pissed on.

guess if you dont want to set it free or take it to a vet if its unhealthy… you could always give it a diaper, put a saddle on it, use your whip and ride it…

Don’t you want to be like your hero, Trump?

Yes, I do.

Excellent!!! May it be your next POM image.