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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 123 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It’s like a pet ballsack

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Had a hairless rat briefly that we called Sir Scrote.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

While I absolutely love your comment and think my question essentially ruins it; I sure know mine's a lot wrinklier and think there's a technical flaw with your otherwise amazing quip

[–] qualia@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Meron35@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago
[–] notabot@piefed.social 13 points 4 days ago

It sounds like you need to practice getting it to curl up into a defensive posture on command. Even a half curl will do wonders for its appearance.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago

You made me laugh out loud for the first time in a while, holy mol-ey!

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago

Alf got fat.

[–] goodboyjojo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

i guess its a birth defect or something. he looks like a squishy ball

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The scrotum demands scritches.

In more ways than one!

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 49 points 4 days ago

Sentient ballsack

[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

This is what my brain imagines when I think the word puggle.

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Poor bastard, born without quills and without pixels

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

What's up with its paw?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’m sure he loves pussy as much as Alf

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I hope he is not cold

[–] Mucki@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago

Hey man bro, u got one of them pixels left? Maybe two?

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

Human intervention is at its best when it cares for beings that would otherwise not survive

[–] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As my brother joked when I showed him this:

"Damn, now he's just a hog."

For Halloween he could go as Fully-Hedgeless Nick 🤪

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This makes me wonder: if Sonic shaved his quills, would he go faster? 🤔

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The quill gives him power so he'll go slower instead.

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

You're thinking of Sampsonic, my biblical hedgehog OC.

Definitely swim faster.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago

There is someone out there whose job is bald hedgehog masseuse

Cute, it looks like one of the Clangers.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

So, a Sphinx cat? Or I guess that’s just how it originated, a recessive gene (or whatever) we coaxed into a breed of cats?

Do cats have white supremacists? Somehow, that’s some kind of chimpanzee idea.

The weirdest tan egg I've ever seen.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But why the massages? Serious question

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

Hedgehogs normally have sharp quills that make them uncomfortable to massage.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the time a yellow jacket flew up my dear departed Harold's draws and stung him right on the sack.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

That actually happened to me as a kid.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is that from Golden Girls?

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

No honey I can't eat there on account of my fibroids acting up.

[–] mondomon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

You're looking at a nude egg.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Looks like a half-ass-ed job.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Never half ass two jobs. Full ass one.

[–] AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

There's only one in the native range of the hedgehog

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

What a cute little meat bag 😂🤣.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Is the hedgehog massages like that one the otter was getting the other day?

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