Haha, long story.
When I was 1 year old my dad would play Sonic the Hedgehog in my room, and I'd watch the pretty colors before falling asleep. I know what you're thinking: "Not another Sonic fan", but Sonic had only shown me that hedgehogs exist. Dad had even shown me a picture when I was 3 or 4.
As time went by, I started playing the games when I was three, and grew up a SEGA fanatic my whole life, but never really knowing much about hedgehogs themselves.
One night late 2008, I was in my apartment, it was three in the morning, and I was watching Sonic Underground when I thought to myself: "How do you take care of a hedgehog?"(sometimes I want to learn the strangest of things), so, I stopped the episode, and went to Wiki (and found CnQ =3 ), and fell in love with the creatures themselves.
I fell in love with their faces, nose, eyes quills - fascinated with everything about them! So I studied up on the care, behavior, diet, ect. on hedgehogs, and decided that I wanted one.
Thus I found a breeder two hours away who sold hedgies, and I met Carmen a bit after.
<3