Weekly Dose of Cute

What do you do when you've lost your mom?

... Find the next closest thing.

Orphaned Baby Hedgehogs Find Brush Mother
c/o www.dailymail.co.uk, click to link to story

Which, in the case of hedgehogs, is apparently a cleaning brush. These little youngsters are reportedly attracted to the bristles because they smelled like their outdoor home and feel like mom should.

I admit, I might be partial to this story because I had hedgehogs as pets as a kid. They're marvelously wonderful animals. Sure, they smell, but so does a ferret - and their little piggy noses make them so much cuter than those little weasels.

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