It’s TUBE TIME

by Meg on August 1, 2008

Get ready ’cause we’re going TUBING, People. [Ready stance]

Race you to the COUCH GO!

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Thistle and Nicole—Looks like your Friday night is booked solid.

{ 61 comments }

1 Kari 08.01.08 at 3:50 pm

What a cute little nosicle!!

2 biscuithead 08.01.08 at 3:50 pm

Nosicle!

3 katerpie 08.01.08 at 3:57 pm

I’ll go with the flow… nosicle!!! XD

4 ceejoe 08.01.08 at 4:02 pm

moist nosicle!
;o)

5 Lucy's mommeh 08.01.08 at 4:06 pm

no-sickie!

6 chanpon 08.01.08 at 4:14 pm

Spindly front legs! Yeah, I notice the weird stuff. Hmm…hedgie doesn’t look too happy.

7 Tiphi 08.01.08 at 4:19 pm

Satellite hedgie!!

8 Theresa 08.01.08 at 4:20 pm

Flamingos and now a hedgehog– time to play croquet!

9 Erebella 08.01.08 at 4:20 pm

Wow, look at those spikes on his head and those itty bitty feetsies! He could probably hear his voice echo in that tube. Hello! (hello)(hello)(hello). You know, those quills will make it hard to get that thing off him, though.

10 Trisha 08.01.08 at 4:27 pm

Did little hedgie get into something or are his feet normally all yellow and slimey like that?

11 Theo 08.01.08 at 4:27 pm

http://www.squidgrid.com/cute/Glossary.htm#Nosicle

Please excuse me; I must now go unwibble my teeth.
Perhaps I shall chew a spot of saddle leather.

12 Theo 08.01.08 at 4:31 pm

Hey by the way, Twin Cities area Peeps? Right now the Minnesota Valley Humane Society (in Burnsville, off Highway 13) has a hedgie available for adoption: meet Gomez! http://mvhspets.org/node/948

(no word on whether or not there’s also a Morticia, tho… heh)

13 thursday 08.01.08 at 4:31 pm

Last time I watched a bunch of hedgehogs playing, they had tubes stuck on their heads, and some nearby kids felt sorry for them and took the tubes off…and the hedgies promptly got them stuck back on. Apparently tubes are awesome.

14 momof2kitties 08.01.08 at 4:31 pm

Cue The Flight Of The Conchords…

“It’s too–oobe, it’s too-oobe ti-ime!!”

15 Loretta 08.01.08 at 4:35 pm

Poor baby! He looks so sad.

16 Michele 08.01.08 at 4:37 pm

They tried to make me go to tube-hab and I said no-no-nheyre…

17 chloe 08.01.08 at 4:40 pm

awww =]

& i found a SUPERCUTE video, but im having trouble submitting it, will someone do it for me? =] p-p-pleas?

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=39735458

18 Wendy O 08.01.08 at 4:41 pm

Its about time you put another hedgie post up! This should be hedgie overload

19 Tee 08.01.08 at 4:43 pm

LOL Theresa!

20 Sonora 08.01.08 at 4:58 pm

What a cute hedgehog! They always seem to be getting stuck in tubes, don’t they?!

21 Sonora 08.01.08 at 5:05 pm

Trisha: We have hedgehogs in our garden & they’re legs are that colouring naturally. Not slimy, furry!

22 Nicole 08.01.08 at 5:19 pm

AH!!! THISTLE MADE IT!!!

She is only sad as I interrupted her tubing with the camera! You can keep on taking away the tube and she keeps sticking her head back in! She had just had a bath, that’s where the wetness comes from, they are usually whiter :)

I am SO EXCITED to see my little baby finally make cuteoverload!!! I’m sure anyone whose pet has made it feels a similar idiotic glee at their little furry friend becoming famous!

23 Yitzysmommie 08.01.08 at 5:25 pm

Happy Day After your Birthday Meggie.

Big Barooos in my house. My 14 year old cockapoo Lucy developed non stop seizures yesterday afternoon. Monday, I had arranged to have her euthanized here at home this morning in a peaceful way in her own bed, but she just couldn’t wait any longer. She’d been sick for a couple of weeks, worsening visibly over last weekend, and on Monday, my vet agreed that she was telling us it’s time. We wanted my son & I to be available to take her, hence our need to wait until today.
Baroooooooo
but aslo glad she’s out of her misery
Please everyone, give your puppers & kittehs & bunnies & hammies & ferrets & snakses and whatever you love an extra snorgle today in memory of our beloved Lucy Goosey who has crossed over the Rainbow Bridge.

[Sincere condolences, B. - Ed.]

24 Michele 08.01.08 at 5:36 pm

Yitzysmommie- I feel for you. My cockapoo Alix had the same seizure issues, she lived a good 13 years. Its hard to see them like that!! She passed about 6 years ago, but not a day goes buy that I dont think of her. I send warm floof your way!! I am so very sorry.

25 DustPuppyOI 08.01.08 at 5:38 pm

Here’s the classic Uni the Hedgehog youtube video (http://tinyurl.com/5q6dfp) that was on CO previously. Featuring: moist nosicle, teeny pink tongue, happy tubing, kicking feet and Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack.

26 momof2kitties 08.01.08 at 5:52 pm

YM–Georgie and Mia send warm, furry snorlges and forehead bumps your way!!!

27 Eastie 08.01.08 at 5:53 pm

@Yitzysmommie – So sorry to hear of your loss. As you said, though, she’s out of her misery. I’ll be sure to give my kitteh and doggeh extra snorgles.

Hedgie is so cute! I love the mouf & nosicle.

28 Erebella 08.01.08 at 5:55 pm

That was an awesome video! The squirming to try and turn over was hilarious. Teeny legs just flipping everywhere, rest for a second, and go at it again. That’s NYERHE to the 100th power! Although I bet once he got upright, he’d go, LET’S DO THAT AGAIN!

29 Mary (the first) 08.01.08 at 5:55 pm

So sorry Yitzysmommie . BAROOO from me too.

30 cheesybird 08.01.08 at 6:17 pm

So sorry for your loss, Yitzysmommie. Man, it’s never easy even when you know it’s the right time. Barooooo…. :(

Nicole, Thistle is anerable! What a sweet moist nosicle!

31 Kit 08.01.08 at 6:32 pm

I agree with … everyone: MOIST NOSICLE!

Also, happy bridgewishes to Lucy.

32 Kiragirl 08.01.08 at 6:32 pm

So sorry, Yitzysmom; for me it’s been 2 yrs 2 weeks….you will feel better eventually but will always remember with love. [can't talk anymore] :(

33 Annie 08.01.08 at 6:35 pm

Yitzysmommie, Hugs from me and all the kitties… So hard when our lovely furry friends have to go…. I hope you had a chance to hold your baby close at the end … I held Darin(our Kitty) until he was gone. it was better for him that way. More Hugs for you

34 anner 08.01.08 at 6:47 pm

“The tried to make me go to tube-hab
I said–” er…what do hedgies say, anyway? Anything?

Condolences and Baroos, Yitzysmom. We’ve had many a baroo of late for my parents’ nearly-15-year-old corgi, Bethany. She went to corgi heaven (presumably filled with cows to herd and corn chips to crunch)2 weeks ago. She had been a bridesmaid in my wedding (she didn’t contribute much to planning the bridal shower, but she certainly behaved better than anyone else in the wedding party). Furry companions truly are real family members.

35 Marie 08.01.08 at 7:19 pm

From that adorable face to those scrawny and adorable leggsies – perfection!

36 scooterpants 08.01.08 at 7:48 pm

he looks like he’s going styrofoam cup home made e-collaring to me.
do you suppose they put that on him so he wouldn’t chew/lick all the medicine off his little leggies?

37 Eastie 08.01.08 at 8:08 pm

@scooterpants – Look at Nicole’s comment above. :)

38 Laura 08.01.08 at 8:09 pm

OMG! I’ve seen the hedge at the end of the tunnel!

39 Kiragirl 08.01.08 at 8:16 pm

hmmmm, cute or sad?

40 scooterpants 08.01.08 at 8:17 pm

eastie-
oops missed that, i usually try to read all the posts so that i dont do something stupid like that.
well, i guess she just has a little bit of a ‘cup’ fetish then .
very very cute. :)

41 Eastie 08.01.08 at 8:33 pm

@scooterpants – No problem! It happens.

42 aloria 08.01.08 at 9:30 pm

Hedgies loooooove tubes. They cannot resist the head-wedging actions.

43 Hedgie! 08.01.08 at 9:33 pm

Can anyone tell me where I can buy a hedgehog??? Seriously i REALLLY want 1.

44 dub1 08.01.08 at 10:20 pm

I’d never heard of ‘edge’og tubing, so fuzzily searched:

http://www.hedgehogworld.com/content/view/32/42/

ROFL!
and check out the pic of tubing tribbles on 60’s wallpaper.

45 mberkie0 08.01.08 at 10:30 pm

@Aloria- Iz dat a hedgie or a wedgie? Hmmmm?
@Yitzysmommy-So sorry for your loss. My Mr. Picky-cat is gettin up dere at 17, so am tryin to prepare for same, altho he is currently in perfect health. We can just be thankful for their presence while we have them and snorgle them alot (and I do).

46 taj 08.01.08 at 11:17 pm

So THAT is why my internet is acting funny today. There is a hedgehog in the tubes!

47 Saara 08.01.08 at 11:34 pm

I’ve heard all about the hedgie tubing.. yet my Niko has yet try it despite ample opportunities!
http://hedgiehog.blogspot.com/2008/06/about-toilet-paper-rolls.html

48 lurkertype 08.01.08 at 11:55 pm

Why do hedgies lof tubes so much? Does anyone know? An ‘edge’og shrink?

49 Gail (the first one) 08.02.08 at 12:11 am

@Yitzysmommy: I’m SO sorry about Lucy….My “kids” and I are sending you lots of {{{{HUGS}}}} and many comforting snorgles your way. She was so lucky to be so loved!!!

50 binky-mama 08.02.08 at 12:16 am

This one definitely needs to go to tube-hab. Love the
disgruntled look and the crazy Lloyd Bridges eyebrows.

“Dewd, I can stop ANY time I want to!”

51 Kristi 08.02.08 at 12:30 am

Most importantly, “Thistle” is THE BEST name for a hedgehog EVER. Absolutely brilliant.

Although anyone with a lisp wouldn’t be able to say his name…so..that’s kinda mean. (also, why does the word “lisp” have an S in it?)

52 Subhangi 08.02.08 at 8:02 am

“Thistle”? Does he speak with a Glaswegian accent? :D

Condolences, hugs and Baroo @ Yitzysmommie.

53 Katrina 08.02.08 at 10:47 am

Dear Yitzysmommie- Clean words cannot connote how I feel about your loss, so I’ll try some dirty ones:
“mulch”, “pond scum”. No, those don’t do it. I’m so sorry for your loss, and my best wishes to you for getting through the first few days. It is a grief process so unlike that for people. I think it is more intense. We are here for you, yeah, we are!

54 Layla42 08.02.08 at 2:50 pm

*beep*
Okay, I have to do that again.
*beep*

55 Sonora 08.02.08 at 4:17 pm

I didn’t realise hedgehogs noses looked like that! I thought they were just little black balls lol. Its a sort of half nose, half muzzle. :) Cute!!

56 jmuhj 08.02.08 at 5:46 pm

…nosicle!!!

57 elle doubleu 08.02.08 at 8:21 pm

I always think of Suessical the Musical when I hear the word noisicle. Noisicle the Moisicle! I demand someone write it. Andrew Lloyd Webber, get busy!

58 Hon Glad 08.03.08 at 12:23 am

Tu be or not tu be
That is the question,
Whether it is nobler in the mind
To suffer the Quills of outrageous fortune……

Someone more clever than I, can finish this. :0}

59 Joy 08.03.08 at 2:29 am

I’ve had 8 hedgehogs over a number of years and most of them never wanted to go “tubing”. I’ve given tubes to play and it’s like, phfffftt, they rather go hide or poke their noses in my tools. My favorite hedgie used to love to burrow in steel wool. I have seen other hedgies go tubing and it’s hilarious watching them. I recall one stubborn hedgie that did not like it if you pulled off his tube and he would really work to jam that tube back on his head. Hedgies are weird animals but ever so lovable. As for the dirty legs, a good wheeling session will get them all poopy and then it’s time for a hedgie bath! Hedgie wheels are unspeakably poopy after a good run and it’s a lot of work to get them clean.

60 Debes 08.04.08 at 2:00 am

Why aren’t their sweet, tiny hedgediddlihogses in Hong Kong?WHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYY????

61 Katrina 08.04.08 at 5:15 pm

Debes: cause you guys gots all th’pretty birdies. We gots the prickly little roundy-uppy things. It all balances out in Nature. Californians can’t have ferrets- see, everybody can’t have something, so we gots ta treasure whats we do gots!
hedgediddlihogses- too sweet!

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