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I CANNOT answer Miss Everett's questions on this subject, but would like to “ask another.” Is it known to be a common thing for dogs to carry hedgehogs in their mouths? I have a fox-terrier who amused himself in our garden by making life a burden to a hedgehog until the latter disappeared. He would not only roll the hedgehog about with his paws, but must have carried, it a certain distance in his mouth, for one evening I found him in triumph at the back door of the garden with his lips all marked with pricks and bleeding, and the hedgehog lying in a ball at the top of three rather steep stone steps twenty or thirty yards from the summer-house where he lodged. If this is a usual form of play with dogs, it is a curious one.
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KIDD, W. Habits of Dogs. Nature 87, 348 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087348b0
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