Tubes Anonymous

by Meg on February 26, 2008

Everyone knows hedgehogs are prone to tubaholism. They can’t help it. They get their little moist nosicles wedged into a toilet paper tube and they CAN’T STOP.

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This one’s a goner.

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Quentin and Jessica D., you should really get some help. Just sayin’.

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1 dks 02.26.08 at 4:33 pm

Kinda makes you wonder what they’re looking for…

2 Rosa 02.26.08 at 4:33 pm

That second picture cracks me up so much!

3 Bluemenro 02.26.08 at 4:34 pm

LOL! Love the little hedgie’s exasperated expression in the second pic. His cute little toesies say it all!

4 Kaye 02.26.08 at 4:34 pm

“ya, i’m just gonna plop mahself down heah and enjoy the tunnel-vision view”

5 Deckard Canine 02.26.08 at 4:34 pm

Oh yes. That CO video with the Sonic music had a hedgie loving a tube as well. It’s as natural as cats going for tight spaces.

6 Bsze 02.26.08 at 4:40 pm

Heeheehee. Zee second picture just made my morning~

“Oooh, I geeve up! ;(“

7 Deanna 02.26.08 at 4:41 pm

Hysterical! That’s his best giraffe impression. I love him sitting on his tush just totally at a loss as to what to do, but thinking ooh the clouds look totally tubular through this thing!

8 Hon Glad 02.26.08 at 4:43 pm

Now for a short rendition on the Tubaphone.

9 zeldapie 02.26.08 at 4:43 pm

Awww, poor bebeh. Someone get him de-tubed, stat!

10 Holy Cuteness 02.26.08 at 4:43 pm

Awww, crazy little hedgie!

11 brinnann 02.26.08 at 4:44 pm

Does the Boxhab facility have a Tubaholics Anonymous group?

12 metsakins 02.26.08 at 4:50 pm

I was just about to inquire about tubehab…I know some gerbils who need to go.

13 LimeyG 02.26.08 at 4:54 pm

I’d love to see a view from the other end of the tube–a tiny nose and a couple of beady eyes peering up out of the darkness …

14 Beth 02.26.08 at 5:05 pm

You can almost hear him saying, “Oh, bloody hell!”

Total exasperation. Snoopy little guys.

15 berthaslave 02.26.08 at 5:17 pm

By sheer coincidence, “White Punks on Dope” was recently voted the official anthem of Hedgehog nation.

(Anybody? Anybody? Oh, here…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tubes).

Re the pics: somewhere, Salvador Dali is smiling and sawing a tuba in half with a ham sandwich.

16 berthaslave 02.26.08 at 5:18 pm

By sheer coincidence, “White Punks on Dope” was recently voted the official anthem of Hedgehog nation.

(Anybody? Anybody? Oh, here…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tubes).

Re the pics: somewhere, Salvador Dali is smiling and sawing a tuba in half with a ham sandwich.

17 Momof2kitties 02.26.08 at 5:38 pm

I just about peed myself laughing at the second pic. Priceless!

And The Tubes rock. (Well, at least they did 20-mumble something years ago)

18 ButtaRumCake 02.26.08 at 5:39 pm

LMAO @ Beth’s “Oh bloddy hell!”

PERFECT caption! LOL

19 Amanda 02.26.08 at 5:52 pm

My hedgie isn’t allowed to have tubes in his cage anymore, because he always leaves them in his water bowl and it becomes a wet, soggy mess. But outside…man are they great! Jsut like a cat in a basket of clean laundry, the pig will always stick his nose in a tube!

20 legotech 02.26.08 at 6:04 pm

Awright, who’s just seen There Will Be Blood…two quotes in two days? :)

I would *love* to see what this little guy looked like from the other end of that tube.

21 possumpiratess 02.26.08 at 6:05 pm

What IS it with these little dudes? Hi-Larious!

22 Joha 02.26.08 at 6:07 pm

His vids on Youtube are adorable too! I hope this link works and he’s the quentin I think he is..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFkUpBtH3DM&feature=related

23 LisaL 02.26.08 at 6:07 pm

Lol.. that 2nd pic is hilarious!!
I can totally hear it saying w/ an echo in the room…
“A little help please?” ehehehe I want one!

24 caitlin 02.26.08 at 6:27 pm

if you ignore the feets, I think the second picture looks like a funny little bird with its beak in the air :)

25 Deanna 02.26.08 at 6:33 pm

How can you ignore the feet?? They’re precious!

26 kayte 02.26.08 at 6:37 pm

He may be exasperated, but better to have your head in a tube than your head up your…

27 kayte 02.26.08 at 6:37 pm

BTW, I loves him!

28 Decca 02.26.08 at 6:42 pm

People, please! Tubaholism is a serious problem. This obviously requires an intervention. Call for help. Call a doctor. Heck, call Dr. Phil!

Don’t laugh at the afflicted. They deserve our help, not our humor.

29 Jacquie 02.26.08 at 6:48 pm

AHHHHH…zees teleescopersons allows moi to see zee reengs of Saturn so cleeeeeeerly!

30 chanpon 02.26.08 at 7:11 pm

OMG!! The hedgie on his tushie is classic!

31 Shadyman 02.26.08 at 7:14 pm

We all know the Internet is a SERIES OF TUBES, so it’s obvious this little guy is just trying to get on the ‘net!

32 CoffeeCup 02.26.08 at 7:22 pm

My Buns gets paper tubes all the time. When they’re brand new, he gnaws blind because he can’t stick his whole head into a tube. I “gave” him an old wrapping paper tube for Christmas though. Wrapped it up in a bow and everything. He looked at it with big, wide eyes. And he ignored it because it was too heavy to throw. :-P

33 Patricia 02.26.08 at 7:31 pm

With me it wasn’t a hedgy. I once had a cat who loved to stick her head in things and get them stuck…or I think she loved it since she did it ALL the time…lol.

34 HannahC. 02.26.08 at 7:42 pm

It’s okay, hedgie, your not alone! I wonder if they think they can shrink down like a mouse or if they just don’t think they’re that fat. :D

35 Frank 02.26.08 at 8:05 pm

McDonalds Germany announced that they will change the design of their McFlurry icecream cups, because several Hedgies died after slurping the dee-liicious icecream. They could not free themselves because they stuck in the plastic ring cap, and died long and painful :(

Now the hole will be smaller, so they cant get in so deep anymore. it took McD two years and some dead hedgehogs for this decision.

Picture: http://www.rp-online.de/public/zoompicture/aktuelles/panorama/deutschland/bild/246398

German news: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,537845,00.html

36 A thinker 02.26.08 at 8:24 pm

lol @ him sitting on his little prickly behind, with the tube sticking up. Pictures like this convince me that someday, I must have a hedgehog.

37 Lily 02.26.08 at 8:47 pm

I feel like this almost every day of my life!! hehehe

38 muhj 02.26.08 at 10:14 pm

pleez-a no squeez-a da charmin

39 HedgieGrammaw 02.26.08 at 11:01 pm

Aaaw! cute! looks just like my grandhedgie aka as Stompy! Just adorable!

40 marmar 02.27.08 at 12:27 am

ohmygooness that McD’s story makes my heart hurt

41 marmar 02.27.08 at 12:29 am

And, that second pic looks like he’s surrendered to the tube…

42 Gail 02.27.08 at 12:40 am

@Beth: ROFL!!!! “Oh, bloody hell!!” That’s it exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!

43 Maria 02.27.08 at 1:04 am

So funny!!

44 Christmas Wedding 2008 02.27.08 at 2:06 am

What are they looking for

45 alex 02.27.08 at 5:02 am

My old hedgehog would do this. The thing is, he’d fret and run around and you’d take the tube off for him – and then he’d immediately shove his head back in it. A serious problem indeed.

46 Sunshine0460 02.27.08 at 7:34 am

Alex,
I agree..my hedgie would do the same thing..and as soon as you “rescued” him, he’d do it again..silly critters!

47 redbone 02.27.08 at 10:42 am

Shhh… he thinks he’s playing the didgeridoo.

48 Antonia Mochan 02.28.08 at 12:49 pm

Have you seen this King Charles doing tricks. Look like the little hedgehog has some way to go…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7267871.stm

49 David Harmon 02.28.08 at 9:07 pm

Oh, I think we can do better than “Oh bloddy hell!” That second picture deserves a caption in the style of http://www.Despair.com !

50 David Harmon 02.29.08 at 1:11 pm

I brought this into my local pet store … the clerk promptly gave the desk-ham a paper-towel tube!

Pushers everywhere, aah!

51 Subhangi 03.01.08 at 6:45 am

The second pic is BRILLIANT! Love the exasperated posture!

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