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Subject: [Leica] Warning cat picture
From: daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:42:11 +0200
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Igge isn't "tame". He or she is extremely near-sighted. I wrote
"porcupine" before, but its a "hedgehog". Same sharp needles, just not
as long.

If you get too close, it turns into a pin cushion, with the pins
pointing out. The cat knows that. Our other two do too. I've seen when
kittens have their first experience of hedgehogs. Serves them right
with all of those sharp claws they have themselves.

Ewa and I took a bike vacation this summer and spent two weeks tenting
around the south of Sweden:

http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100707-_DSC2416-1.jpg.html
http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100704-_DSC2308-2.jpg.html
http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100705-_DSC2385-2.jpg.html

You can imagine how it feels to wake up in the middle of the night and
here this rustling through your bags in the dark. These things might
be part blind, but they can smell food a mile away. The first two
nights they actually crawled into our foodbags to hide when they heard
us go up to chase them out. We'd have to dump out the whole bag to get
them out. Ewa used to think they are cute. She thinks they're little
stinkers now.

Google has some better pictures of them:

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=hedgehog

They hibernate and live in our yard. They like quiet, unkept spaces.

Daniel

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Pretty girls always trump food!
>
> How tame is Igge? ?He/she looks like an interesting critter.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ridings" <daniel at 
> dlridings.se>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 2:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Warning cat picture
>
>
>> We bought a whole collection of doormats :-)
>>
>> But now it's evening here, and as always, Igge comes to eat up the
>> left-overs:
>>
>> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100826-IMGP0416-2.jpg.html
>>
>> He really, really, likes Rebecca. It's uncanny. He just waits and
>> waits for her. I'm the one who gives him food, but she's the one he
>> adores.
>>
>> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100826-IMGP0410-1.jpg.html
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Now you need to get a doormat for the door.
>>>
>>> Enjoyed your cat story.
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 26, 2010, at 3:03 AM, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>>>
>>>> The placement of the door mat was slightly impractical and has been
>>>> adjusted:
>>>>
>>>> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100826-IMGP0406-1.jpg.html
>>>>
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