Hedgehogs Saved From Starvation!

[Rumple Foreskin]

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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Hedgehogs have finally humbled burger giant McDonald's after years of campaigning, forcing the company to redesign its killer McFlurry ice-cream containers.

Up to now the opening in the container has been large enough for hedgehogs to get their heads into for a lick of the left-over dessert -- a trap they have then been unable to withdraw from, so dying of starvation in untold numbers.

But from September 1, the wide-mouthed opening in the lid of the McFlurry containers will be reduced in size, making them too small for the sugar-loving animals to get their heads into.

"This is excellent, it is long overdue news," said Fay Vass, chief executive of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society. "We have been in touch with McDonald's about this problem for over five years and are delighted that they have at last solved the problem."

Life is good.

Rumple Foreskin

 

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Too bad they couldn't have made the opening a bit larger such that the "sugar-loving animals" could get their sugar and eat it too. And get out.

 

[SeaCat]

Rumple,

Glad to hear it.

Having been the previous caretaker of several of these little critters I'm glad to hear they are finally being helped at least a little. Like Warning said I'm kind of disapointed that they didn't make the opening larger instead of smaller, but knowing the size some of these can grow to I can understand it.

The picture you show looked a lot like the Egyptian but without the longer ears. One of your wild ones perhaps?

(I had a wild one that fell into our basement window wewll in Germany. About the size of an American Football and dark brown. Very friendly once it got to know you. I managed to bring him back and he died of old age several years later. I then had an Egyptian Long Ear for many years before she too died of old age.)

Cat

 

[damnewc]

I sure do like hedgehogs.

 

[Guest]

 

[Oblimo]

I sure do like hedgehogs.

...but they can never be buggered at all.

(Obscurely referenced as required by Intarweb Law)

 

[TriggerHippie]

It took them five years of killing adorable little hedgehogs? Grrrrr.

Glad the lil guys are safe now, though.

But really, would you think, "wee little hedgehogs are dying for McFlurries"? I mean, I think it's great cos they're way cute, but I hadn't a clue hedgehogs were indigenous to rural UK Mickey Ds.

Glad to hear they should fair better tho, cos they are so cute it makes your teeth hurt.

But I’m a bit worried about the 350,000 baby seals that are going to die any day now in Canada, to be honest ….

 

[WARNINGWARNING]

But really, would you think, "wee little hedgehogs are dying for McFlurries"? I mean, I think it's great cos they're way cute, but I hadn't a clue hedgehogs were indigenous to rural UK Mickey Ds.

Glad to hear they should fair better tho, cos they are so cute it makes your teeth hurt.

But I’m a bit worried about the 350,000 baby seals that are going to die any day now in Canada, to be honest ….

Baby seals are eating McFlurries too!?

When will the madness end?

I remember when it was water fowl and plastic 6-pack rings.

 

[Pure]

around here a big problem has been the plastic things that hold six beers together as a loose sort of six pack. it's a rectangle of tough plastic with six holes.

it is deadly for ducks and geese that get tangled in it.

for wild animals generally, it's 'poor critters.' for some reason i think of the old days when wolves were routinely poisoned.

 

[oggbashan]

Answering the wrong problem

Yes, McFlurry containers were dangerous to hedgehogs.

Yes, it is good that they have been redesigned so hedgehogs don't get trapped in them.

BUT - if McDonalds customers didn't toss them out of car windows on to roadside verges there wouldn't be any problem for the hedgehogs.

TAKE YOUR LITTER HOME!

Og

PS. I don't think it will work. Hedgehogs have sharp teeth and are determined. They will find a way to get their McFlurry.

 

[rgraham666]

BUT - if McDonalds customers didn't toss them out of car windows on to roadside verges there wouldn't be any problem for the hedgehogs.

TAKE YOUR LITTER HOME!

Og

Just so, Og.

When I take my daily walk to the local beach, I get to do plenty of bending and stretching picking up all the junk people just drop. And there are usually garbage and recycling cans within 30 metres of every spot along the beach.

I will not say out loud my opinion of the people that do this.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Yes, McFlurry containers were dangerous to hedgehogs.

Yes, it is good that they have been redesigned so hedgehogs don't get trapped in them.

BUT - if McDonalds customers didn't toss them out of car windows on to roadside verges there wouldn't be any problem for the hedgehogs.

TAKE YOUR LITTER HOME!

Og

PS. I don't think it will work. Hedgehogs have sharp teeth and are determined. They will find a way to get their McFlurry.

Og and me have done many scientifically mindbogglein studies on wildlife, in particular hedgehogs.

It is good that this was done to keep the little rascals from getting thier heads stuck, but more needs to be done.

Can you imagine the devastating mental anguish a lil hedgehog suffers when trying to put on a discarded condom?


Save the Hedgehogs Society.

 

[TriggerHippie]

Baby seals are eating McFlurries too!?

When will the madness end?

I remember when it was water fowl and plastic 6-pack rings.

I'm sure they would love McFlurries if they were going to McDonalds as anything other than shoes. http://www.messengermods.com/data/thumbnails/18/baby_seal.jpg

On a lighter note, a joke:

A baby seal walks into a club ....


Okay, I'm going to hell for that one.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Has anyone thought this through? Cast off McFlurry containers may actually be a "Natural Selection" device to replace some natural Hedgehog predator that has long disappeared. With this change, in 10 years, Hedgehogs could be over running the UK

 

[RogueLurker]

Has anyone thought this through? Cast off McFlurry containers may actually be a "Natural Selection" device to replace some natural Hedgehog predator that has long disappeared. With this change, in 10 years, Hedgehogs could be over running the UK

McDarwin's?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

McDarwin's?

Pretty much. LMAO

 

[TriggerHippie]

Has anyone thought this through? Cast off McFlurry containers may actually be a "Natural Selection" device to replace some natural Hedgehog predator that has long disappeared. With this change, in 10 years, Hedgehogs could be over running the UK

McDarwin's?

Clever people.

And it seems to be serving a similar culling function in the US homo sapiens population, since the McHeartAttack ....

 

[RogueLurker]

Pretty much. LMAO

Over 1 Billion Mutations Culled.

 

[glynndah]

Just you watch. The ones with the longer tongues that can lick the dregs are going to be the most sought after ones. Soon natural selection will favor those with longer and longer tongues. Those poor hedgehogs are going to evolve into beasties with tongues the length of their bodies.

 

[oggbashan]

All they have to do to take over the UK is to learn to keep running when crossing a road instead of curling up in a ball when they see a car's headlights.

However, foxes and some other predators eat hedgehogs, usually after the hedgehog has met a car.

Og

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Perhaps we should just stop eating McFlurries?

 

[impressive]

Perhaps we should just stop eating McFlurries?

I have no clue what a McFlurry IS, even.

 

[RogueLurker]

I have no clue what a McFlurry IS, even.

It's a very poor imitation of a Dairy Queen Blizzard ... soft icecream that has candy/chocolate bar bits/cookies mixed in with it.

Of course, my taste for Blizzards has waned in the past few years. They used to hit the spot on a hot summer day. Now I'll just settle for a scoop of Ben and Jerry's on a cone.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Perhaps we should just stop eating McFlurries?

Perhaps, Mickey D's should come out with a McHedgeHog... gotta do something with all the dead bodies

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Perhaps we should just stop eating McFlurries?

Or atleast stop throwing the empty boxes everywhere but in the trash..?