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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

Alf got fat.

[–] goodboyjojo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

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

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

I hope he is not cold

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 points 1 day ago

Still not as cursed as hairless bears.

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 156 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It’s like a pet ballsack

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Had a hairless rat briefly that we called Sir Scrote.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 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 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago
[–] notabot@piefed.social 16 points 2 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 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The scrotum demands scritches.

In more ways than one!

[–] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 9 points 2 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 🤪

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 62 points 2 days ago

Sentient ballsack

[–] Mucki@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Poor bastard, born without quills and without pixels

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’m sure he loves pussy as much as Alf

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

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

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago

I think sphinx cats are older than the ability to cut in hedgehog genes to your cat.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

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

Definitely swim faster.

The weirdest tan egg I've ever seen.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago

There is someone out there whose job is bald hedgehog masseuse

Cute, it looks like one of the Clangers.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But why the massages? Serious question

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

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

[–] mondomon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You're looking at a nude egg.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like a half-ass-ed job.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Never half ass two jobs. Full ass one.

[–] AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What a cute little meat bag 😂🤣.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 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.

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

Is that from Golden Girls?

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

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

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