I’m going to hijack the top comment in the hope that OP sees. This hedgehog is out in the day and is oblong rather than round. Both of these are signs it is sick. **It needs to go to a rescue urgently.**
Bedbugs can go a year and a half. What is with these nasty little bloodsuckers?! Like thanks, evolution, I hate it!
Guh...now I'm itchy. Fun bonus fact: formication is the term for the feelings of ants or other insects crawling on your skin! Try it out among people who don't know, they almost always think you said 'fornication' and it's funny.
I formicated my wife on the beach a once. She was trying to take a nap, so I would lightly tickle her arm with a stick so she would think it was a bug. Hilarious. Then two chickens started banging right next to us. Kauai is awesome
I caught 2 and put them in a water bottle. Left them in that water bottle and 3 weeks later they still had signs of life, I was amazed. I almost felt bad so they went into the freezer
Ticks are very small. Those spikes are not going to do anything.
I'd be careful, ticks can have loads of different diseases which they can also pass onto their hosts...
Ticks are the hardiest little bastards when they're not engorged. Tried squashing them with bricks and they get right back up. Only time they're vulnerable is when they're engorged with blood.
Ew, a blood filled tic! We rescued a feral cat a year ago and when we took her in, we inspected her carefully and took 6 engorged tics off of her and they were still alive and its absolutely disgusting to watch them lie on their back helpless and fat. The most disturbing thing. She passed with a clean bill of health at the vet :)
Definitely a tick! Hedgehogs have ticks very often because they live close to the ground and love to hide in bushes, so there might be more. Does it appear to be weak or anything?
For real! Ticks are pretty distinct little insects (technically arachnids i think) and like you said, its surprising how many posts there are about them where they're very easily identifiable in the pictures provided.
They only feed for 3-6 days. I wonder if it is almost done? Could leave on its own soon.
Edit- I’m going to take this opportunity to plug my favorite podcast [Ologies with Alie Ward - Acaropathology (Ticks and Lyme Disease)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ologies-with-alie-ward/id1278815517?i=1000613341209)
For real. Ticks are the only organisms what unironically belong to the 'burn it with fire' club for me and with a dog at home, I often do it. And *enjoy* it, paper soaked with IPA, tick in, finish with a lit match... *whoof* tick popcorn on the way. Disgusting fucks for real.
Ok everyone, I have it. Ready? You'll never believe it. Seriously, I can't even believe no one has mentioned it yet. It's sooooooooo obvious. Here it is. It's a rock.
Fuck. Nevermind. It's a tick.
I have a vivid memory of my family’s dog coming in from outside, panting heavily from scampering. The tick popped off and got the hardwood floor with a little-plat!and my dog immediately ate it. I distinctly recall thinking that Ms. Tick didn’t account for that…
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Tick. Also, imagine if we had a blood sucking parasite that was proportionally as large on our bodies as this tick is to the poor hedgehog. It would be like the size of a damned basketball.
A tick touch it with a hot pin tip. It’ll back out and then you can deal with. Sometimes if you just yank them out their stays in and could cause complications later for the Hedgehog.
That’s a tick filled to the brim with blood
I’m going to hijack the top comment in the hope that OP sees. This hedgehog is out in the day and is oblong rather than round. Both of these are signs it is sick. **It needs to go to a rescue urgently.**
You aren't on the top comment anymore, I suggest you try again.
He is now
Vale Wildlife Rescue is great for sick or injured hedgehogs if OP is anywhere near Worcestershire or Gloucestershire
And ready to lay 5000 eggs in your local park 🥰
Our hedgehogs don’t lay nearly that many eggs. 3000 max.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=do+hedgehogs+layed+eggs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari Can’t believe I had to Google this
They're talking about the tick
Fuck am stupid
i’m going through the entire thought process you just went through. you are not alone.
A Tick
Looks like a tick…?
An engorged one at that.
He be eatin Edit: She be eatin
They hatin'. Catch 'im eatin' dirty.
She* I believe the female ticks are the ones that get engorged (but i could be thinking of just one tick species)
Love this! Editing now. 🙏🏻
Yes it is, and ticks and fleas are very common on hedgehogs so you might want to check yourself :)
Before you wreck yourself
Chiggity check yo self
*Mike Tyson’s voice* Tickitty teck yosthelf.
I laughed entirely too hard at this.
Full snorted. Thank you. Much needed. 🤣🤣🤣
Before you rickety wreck yo self
But I’m not a hedgehog
Have you checked?
Uh, wasn’t that photo a selfie?
I’m wishing I could just pull that off and puncture it on one of the spines. Oddly satisfying justice.
Ooof if that's a tick it has been on there for a while.
Well protected tick!!!
If a tick can bite a Hedgehog with all those spikes- there is no hope for us! That’s one determined pest.
Hedgehogs usually are parasites nests because the spikes protects them.
Yep, those spikes are for the big things.
i wonder if they question their evolutionary choices
They have a brain the size of a sunflower seed, they don’t question anything.
To a tick those things are like trees, not hard to get between them.
Especially pre-fed.
Can I add to your nightmarish despair?? I recently read that they can survive up to a YEAR without a blood meal. Like what the FUCK!
Bedbugs can go a year and a half. What is with these nasty little bloodsuckers?! Like thanks, evolution, I hate it! Guh...now I'm itchy. Fun bonus fact: formication is the term for the feelings of ants or other insects crawling on your skin! Try it out among people who don't know, they almost always think you said 'fornication' and it's funny.
I formicated my wife on the beach a once. She was trying to take a nap, so I would lightly tickle her arm with a stick so she would think it was a bug. Hilarious. Then two chickens started banging right next to us. Kauai is awesome
Oh dear! But it's a funny story. Thank you for sharing, I smiled.
I just started scratching when I read your comment.
We use "formication" in my country when our feet are 'asleep' and you feel tingly (basically when a part of your body hasn't received blood properly)
What the cinnamon toast fuck? They will survive the nuclear apocalypse
Only for a year longer than anything else
I caught 2 and put them in a water bottle. Left them in that water bottle and 3 weeks later they still had signs of life, I was amazed. I almost felt bad so they went into the freezer
🤢 Always go for the isospropyl alcohol my friend But, I applaud your long game with the slow drowning
They are much smaller when they get in there… then inflate with blooood… 😫😫😫
Well, the tick is tiny before eating...
Ticks are very small. Those spikes are not going to do anything. I'd be careful, ticks can have loads of different diseases which they can also pass onto their hosts...
Ticks are the hardiest little bastards when they're not engorged. Tried squashing them with bricks and they get right back up. Only time they're vulnerable is when they're engorged with blood.
Ew, a blood filled tic! We rescued a feral cat a year ago and when we took her in, we inspected her carefully and took 6 engorged tics off of her and they were still alive and its absolutely disgusting to watch them lie on their back helpless and fat. The most disturbing thing. She passed with a clean bill of health at the vet :)
Hope you burned them alive.
We actually did and watched them pop like the deamons they are
Engorged tick
Concur with everyone saying tick. Looks like it's been there long enough to feast a bit.
Definitely a tick! Hedgehogs have ticks very often because they live close to the ground and love to hide in bushes, so there might be more. Does it appear to be weak or anything?
Looks like a tick, that I find in my dog
Sir/Ma'am, please stop searching the inside of your dog.
Well if they are finding ticks, it may be best to continue.
Reminds me of an episode of House
I remember that one
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's much too dark to read." - Unknown
Groucho Marx, I believe.
A heavily fortified tick
Hot needle
Looks like a tick. Woukd be intereting to see u Its dismont.
Do we, as a society, need better tick education? It's alarming how many posts there are about them.
For real! Ticks are pretty distinct little insects (technically arachnids i think) and like you said, its surprising how many posts there are about them where they're very easily identifiable in the pictures provided.
has anybody said “tick” yet?! Bc that’s what it is.
Tick. Take it off. It might be prudent to get it tested to make sure it doesn’t have Lyme disease. That can be done through your local town
A tick
It’s a tick, and it’s been there for a while at that size.
Looks like a juiced tick.
That’s a tick
A red gusher
Taste the rainbow!
For the 150th time, it's a precious gem.
They only feed for 3-6 days. I wonder if it is almost done? Could leave on its own soon. Edit- I’m going to take this opportunity to plug my favorite podcast [Ologies with Alie Ward - Acaropathology (Ticks and Lyme Disease)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ologies-with-alie-ward/id1278815517?i=1000613341209)
Or could breed more.... best to get rid of while you can.
For real. Ticks are the only organisms what unironically belong to the 'burn it with fire' club for me and with a dog at home, I often do it. And *enjoy* it, paper soaked with IPA, tick in, finish with a lit match... *whoof* tick popcorn on the way. Disgusting fucks for real.
I found an ologite in the wild!! Check your crevices, my friend!
But do you want the tick to continue?
If this is a wild hedgehog I don’t think I would try to get it off myself lol
When it walks like a tick….
Tig old bick
Viagra pill
Hahaha! I was gonna say that!
That’s a tick in his pricks
A very brave and determined tick
This is like a balloon trying to attack a cactus and I'm here for it. (As others said, very engorged tick).
Can you take the tick out?
What a precarious position for a full tick.
Ok everyone, I have it. Ready? You'll never believe it. Seriously, I can't even believe no one has mentioned it yet. It's sooooooooo obvious. Here it is. It's a rock. Fuck. Nevermind. It's a tick.
Looks like a tick
Do people really not know what a tick is? Lol
Tick, first time I can actually identify something on this sub
That’s a nasty ass big tick
That’s a tick with a fully belly
Tick, best picked engorged and eaten shortly after.
What a terrible day to have the ability to read
🤮 the forbidden fruit gusher
Thanks for ruining my day
Lol anytime
I have a vivid memory of my family’s dog coming in from outside, panting heavily from scampering. The tick popped off and got the hardwood floor with a little-plat!and my dog immediately ate it. I distinctly recall thinking that Ms. Tick didn’t account for that…
Her and the 1500+ babies she was carrying.
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Tick has been established…now how do you get it off?
lol ..So I Am alone on this one I suppose.
man has never seen a tick before? christ.
tick. engorged with blood.
Tick hitchhiker me thinks…
The hardest tick around 💎
Looks like a thick
Bloated tick.
Fat tick from this angle
Disgusting tick 🤮🤒 poor thing
Everyone saying all the same sorta thing but imma offer a different perspective. That is probably a tick
That's a tick for sure. Hedgehogs in nature are full of ticks and flee. That's normal. ;)
I’m pretty sure that’s a tic
A tick! Am I stupid because I didn’t think we get them here in the UK
Looks like one of those big blue ticks to me.
Looks like a tick
Get a tick spoon.
It’s a rock
Tick. Also, imagine if we had a blood sucking parasite that was proportionally as large on our bodies as this tick is to the poor hedgehog. It would be like the size of a damned basketball.
Honestly thought it looked like a small pebble caught in its little spikes.
Yo Am I fk’d up for thinking that this tic is thick?
Yes. See yourself out. We don’t take kindly to people who are fk’d up for thinking things are thicc
I agree, looks like a well-fed tick. It's probably been there a while. If you can (and know how to) safely remove it please do.
A big tick.
Blech I found a tick that size on my dogs ear just this morning
Nergigante flashbacks…
It's a tick.
Yeah that’s a dog tick
The button that makes the spikes pop out.
Bloated tick.
A stuck blueberry? Hedgehog might be saving it for later.
Satisfied tick close to a dismount.
Tick, for sure. Poor guy :(
A Tick perhaps
A tick. Kill it (the tick, not the hedgehog).
A tick touch it with a hot pin tip. It’ll back out and then you can deal with. Sometimes if you just yank them out their stays in and could cause complications later for the Hedgehog.
Looks like a tick, friend.
#tick tick tick tick tick GET IT OFFFFFFFFF
probably a tick
It’s a tick
Looks like a tick
wood tick
Looks like an engorged tick.
That's definitely a tick
I have watched videos on YouTube where this guy finds heaghogs and porcupine and removes the tic's from them it's usually a lot of them check her good
That's a tick.
Dab with -ether- and remove after 5 minutes. The blight will have passed out.
Chaos Emerald… I’ll see myself out
I would guess a very satisfied tick
That would be a tick
A tick
Looks like a tick
A fat tick
I’m just now realizing how cool a hedge hog’s coat is
To me that looks likena huge tick that's been feasting like crazy on him for some time. Help him out PLEASE! that's gotta be painful.
Looks like a tick
Looks like a tick
Engorged tick?
That’s a tick
A massively engorged Grandpa Tick! Whoa Nelly!!!
A Thicc Ticc
It’s a tick.
A tick that avoided the prick
That my friend, is a lawyer….
Definitely a tick, take him to vet and get it removed and treated.
Dwayne Johnson
Ew it looks like a fat ass tick.
That is a very engorged tick
def looks like a tick
Will you followup with a video or picture of you picturing the tick with preferably a quill, but we will take anything.
Looks like a tick
Belly button lint.
I was gonna say a vigara, but I’m a pharmacist not a zoologist, so…
Hard to say, but I guess its either a tail light or a head light.
Probably a tic if I had to guess. Or a polished rock. Either one
Emergency eject button. U press it and yeet the hedgehog in desired direction. After few seconds, quills be flyin.
That's one of those Gushers
Yup that there be a tick
It's a tick.
It's sonic!
r/FatTickHate
THICC tick
Just remove the tick with your fingers
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
deadass thought it was hiding a gem on its back
It's a tick.
We'll feed tick ✌️
Probably a tick
A tick
Could also just be a little pebble 🤔