Goldy: Sure, it doesn’t take a genius to spell genius correctly. I am so sorry for the inconvenience. I am sure a high and mighty person like yourself has never made any typing errors, especially if they are writing other than their native language, like I am doing at the moment. I guess you have never noticed that o and u are located pretty near each other in qwerty keyboard. I humbly apoligize to you and other dickheads like yourself. My view hasn’t changed. Those ladies don’t know what they are doing.

I believe it’s been mentioned, but captive hedgehogs DO need baths to get poo out of their feet and prevent parasites from forming. It’s been stated in many places that hedgehogs will enjoy swimming, just not ALL of them. This is a case where a hedgehog is acting retardedly cute while enjoying a swim. Please read the owner’s youtube comments, you will learn a lot about hedgehogs.

It’s amazing that people have the audacity to make long winded negative comments without doing proper research.

Super cute!! I watched the whole video with my husband, and we both loved it.
As someone who’s owned hedgehogs in the past, I can also say he doesn’t seem to be in any sort of distress. The people getting upset about his face being submerged completely for a moment while he rights himself also has me baffled, since if this bothered him (like he’d gotten water in his nose) he’d be choking. He’s not being forced to lie on his back, and rights himself all on his own at the end of the video and several times before that.

Geez, some people!

I’M NOT SCHWIMMING….I’M DWOWNING……MAYBE IF I PWAY DEAD, DEY WILL WEEVE ME AWONE!!!!!

Humph.. I really enjoyed this video. It is very strange that so many people viewed this in a negative light.

It was extremely upsetting to read a lot of these comments.

When I lived in New Zealand I had a hedgehog as a pet. He was an extremely intelligent animal who loved to play. The times that I would occasionally wash him in the sink, he seemed to enjoy it. He would drink the water and poop and swim in circles. I lived in the middle of farm country, and there were many wild hedgehogs living on the property. Sometimes at night you could hear distressed hedgehogs squealing. Their cries are very loud, and I can imagine that if the hedgehog in the video was not happy he would be vocalizing it.

I am a true animal lover through and through, and when I see an animal being treated poorly I don’t put up with it, but in this case there seems nothing to be getting so alarmed about. There were a few questionable moments in the film, but overall, if you actually use your brain and don’t jump to conclusions so quickly, it seems quite easy to see that the lovely little creature is actually enjoying himself. I’m sure that the water felt fantastically soothing on his little spiny back, which must get very, very, itchy.

Actually, Adalia, goldfish are capable of playing and having fun! They also form one on one bonds…they’re surprisingly complex little creatures.

But, yeah, animals can’t have fun my butt.

I love how everyone sees animal abuse because THEIR pets wouldn’t like it. My cat’s favorite game is to be held at both ends and “flown” through the air (carried by a running Mom through the apartment) while I shout FLYING WEASEL! FLYING WEASEL! It probably looks mean and insane to everyone else, but Abby HATES being picked up any other time – and holds perfectly still with claws in to be “flown.”

It makes no difference if NO OTHER HEDGIE IN THE WORLD liked water – all that matters is if this little dude does. And if his owners – who seems highly knowledgeable, if you’d bother to read the youtube comments – say he does, that’s enough for me, because I haven’t met this little fella, and neither have any of you.

HvsL: The original video can be found on ChrisSunHwa’s Photobucket account.

Hmm, I was looking forward to seeing this after all the nuffing and counter-nuffing. I’d like to observe it myself. For some reason, I can’t. Does anyone have the youtube address it originally came from?

“try to think the way an animal would think. they do not experience ‘fun’ like humans do. only a few species of animal play with toys for entertainment or slide down things.”

Evidently your experience with animals is limited to goldfish and mollusks. “Fun” is by no means the exclusive experience of humans.

BTW, everyone, this video has been moved from YouTube to PhotoBucket, and the poster has begun offering several Shming-photo products on CafePress.

** He’s remembering being in the womb? **

Someone’s having some bad EST flashbacks. BTW, I seriously want a hot pink rubber duckie.

Out of curiousity, how long was that freakin’ thing in the water? They kept worrying about the water cooling off after all of that time. I guess if you have that many quills you don’t get pruney. Momma sounds like the kind who makes you wait a FULL HOUR after lunch before going back in the water.

I wanna see “momma” try to get the water out of his ears,