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Who can resist a baby animal in distress?

Certainly not a well-intentioned English woman, who discovered an abandoned baby hedgehog on a sidewalk one evening.

Once she got to the hospital, a startling discovery was madethe hedgehog wasn’t a hedgehog at all.

Photo Of Hedgehog Sitting On Short Green Grass

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Instead, it was a stray pom pom that would normally be found sitting atop a woolen beanie.

Luckily, any laughs to be had would be in good fun, and she’d surely join in.

The news story has since made its way toReddit, with a community of users chiming in.

One userwrote, This is hilarious for obvious reasons, but its a lovely story that made me smile.

The news is so often full of unhappy stories, particularly over the last few years.