They are small and prickly and are the very latest must-have pets. Would-be owners are will happily wait up to a year and will travel any distance to get their hands on an African pygmy hedgehog. The cute pets are a quarter of the size of a normal hedgehog and are fully domesticated and don’t carry diseases or fleas.
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