…and the punch line is that he wins the day!
A Lawrence, Kansas boy’s fondess for iconic video game character Sonic the Hedgehog has led to a successful crusade to overturn a citywide ban on the critters.
KTKA-49 reports that Judson King, 11, decided three years ago that he loved Sonic so much that he needed to own a real hedgehog, but…
Lawrence’s animal code has long prohibited the furry rodents in the city limits, a fact that didn’t particularly upset Judson’s mother. “I thought, that’s my out. Now I don’t have to get him one. Then he said, ‘How do we make them legal?’” mom Rebecca Weeks said.
Score one for the hedgepigs (as a friend of mine calls them.) I used to work at the Phoenix Zoo, and we had one of these amusing critters come to visit once a month. With a bristly back, soft tummy, and polite licking looking for grubs we always had a cheerful experience with them.
It seems odd that any city would ban them as pets; although generally jurisdictions do see wildlife as bad material for domestication. Kudos to Judson for winning one for the hedgehogs.
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Link, via Game Politics.