Quentin on the Quad

Me and Quentin taking a stroll on the Quad at UIUC. He's more behaved than my dog, he actually follows me!

Quentin is an algerian chocolate colored African pygmy hedgehog.

Quentin was mentioned on Cute Overload!

Check him out here:
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/02/tubes-anonymous.html

For information on hedgehog care and breeders in your area, please visit:
http://www.hedgehogworld.com/

For information on the legality of owning a hedgehog in your state, please refer to this website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_hedgehog#Legality

As a side note on my pet posts, I often get comments about how much people "want one." I encourage you to read up on the proper care and treatment of all of these critters that you want. A pet is not a fashion accessory, collectible, or spur-of-the-moment item, it is a living thing and needs proper care, housing, nutrition, and most importantly attention. It also has hidden costs such as vet bills and food expenses. It is a big responsibility not to be taken lightly.

As a plea for animal welfare I give you this:
If you love hedgehogsand want one, I encourage you to adopt on from a private breeder or rescue one if you can from a shelter or rescue RATHER THAN a pet store. Pet stores support and buy their animals from mass breeders; people who mistreat, abuse, and neglect animals and are only in it for the profit. No respectable breeder would ever sell their animal to a pet store.

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[KreatchusProductions]

wait that is not on a quad he is on the ground (a quad is actully a four wheeler)

[zorra578]

exactly what spielberg said, a quad is typically a large rectangular grassy area in the middle of a college campus

[MarshmellowFluff]

looks like a running twinkie :3

[Existantia]

LOL "I'll pretend Im following her......."

0:40 "Cheese it!!! FREEEEEDOM!!!!!"

[Quadcoreification]

@MarshmellowFluff looks more like a hedgehog to me...

[Quadcoreification]

This is me

[dancer58542]

I would be scared just letting him roam around like that. I would be afraid that I would be unable to catch him. Of course I have yet to own a hedgehog, though I'm interested.

[cam1021]

That would be cool to take your hedgehog out for a walk now and then. That is until an owl or hawk swoops down for it.

[KatXYZ]

DANG! It's fast! O_o

[LucyInk121]

LOVE Quentin! Keep the videos coming, he's gorgeous. I reckon he and my hedgie Winston would be really good friends aha

[itsjessica1984]

awesome cool guy

[supagirl97]

hhmmm.........whats the maximum speed of a hedehog??

[MrQball101]

my name is Quentin

[Akotor64]

@zorra578

Imogen Heap's song Hide and Seek has your video Hedgehog Hide and Seek in the suggestions, just a thought :)