Hedgehog Poem

We hedgehogs are not friendly animals.
Maybe it's the spines,
or the fact that we spend all day
asleep under scraps of cloth.

Don't bother me when I'm sleeping,
because I'll hiss at you.
I might even lower my spines
and charge.

And if you try to hold me,
or I'll curl up into a ball
pointy side out.

Do hedgehogs ever poke themselves, you ask?
Not often, but when we do, it hurts.