Article: Yuppies in Hedgehog Heaven // Pricey, Prickly Pets With an Attitude Are the Latest Rage

Yabba-dabba-dough!

The yuppie puppy of the mid-'90s costs major bucks and has one mighty long lifeline: He, or, more precisely, his early relatives, roamed planet Earth during the reign of T-Rex and company.

We're not talking Jack Russell terriers here. (They're as passe as the pot-bellied pig in some households.) We're talking hedgehogs, the little flat-footed, prickly critters with an attitude, but not much IQ.

They don't do tricks, they don't heel, they don't always come when you call them, but they certainly are cute little guys to have around the den, says Pat Storer, the hedgehog honcho who wrote the definitive bible on the little mammals, Everything You Wanted to Know About ...

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