Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this May 6, 2014 photo hedgehog breeder and trainer Jennifer Crespo, of Gardner, Mass., holds "Circus," a one-year-old pet ...

With their adorable faces and unusual coats, hedgehogs are just begging to be anthropomorphized in a whimsical fashion. And since Kenneth Grahame only had time for the briefest hedgehog cameo in The ...

Marutaro the Hedgehog is kind of a big deal. (He has more than 39,000 thousand Twitter followers, for example.) For the past few months, his owner has been tweeting photos of him wearing a series of ...

The African Pygmy hedgehog has nearly 2,000 Instagram followers. — -- This delightful little hedgehog is making the rounds on social media, racking up nearly 2,000 Instagram followers who adore ...

They are tiny animals with cute faces. They're covered in quills. They roll into prickly balls when they are scared. The ideal pet?Hedgehogs are steadily growing in popularity across the United States ...

GARDNER, MA -- They are tiny animals with cute faces. They're covered in quills. They roll into prickly balls when they are scared. The ideal pet? Hedgehogs are steadily growing in popularity across ...

They are tiny animals with cute faces. They’re covered in quills. They roll into prickly balls when they are scared. The ideal pet? Hedgehogs are steadily growing in popularity across the United ...

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GARDNER, Mass. (AP) — They are tiny animals with cute faces. They’re covered in quills. They roll into prickly balls when they are scared. The ideal pet? Hedgehogs are steadily growing in popularity ...