Some people dream of sailing the globe. Others hope to conquer the highest peaks. A woman in Mansfield, Ill., dreamed of raising hedgehogs (they come in 15 colors!) and, like many in this great nation of ours, she has achieved that dream. The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports:
Sarah Roberts lifted a little hut covering Bailey and her offspring and plucked the protective mother off her babies, four tiny hedgehogs that looked like a clump of cactus.
"She has two girls and two boys," said Roberts, who has made a business of raising and selling the playful, trendy and trouble-free African pygmy hedgehogs. She also shelters hedgehogs who have run into trouble in other homes where owners no longer want them, often because they've grown old or become sick.
"I figure I'm putting babies out there, so I think it's only fair," Roberts said.
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