Hi I'm Debby

Hello everyone!

My name is Deborah, I'm 23 years old and I live in Italy in a mountain village located between Tuscany and Emilia Romagna.
I'm a student enrolled in a foreign languages course at the Università degli studi di Pisa. I'm studying English and I love all animals especially cats, dogs (Golden Retrievers are my favourite), dolphins and hedgehogs.
I started with them last year when Nemo, the Newfoundland dog of my cousin, found a young hedgehog in our garden. Jackie (this is the name we gave to the hoglet) was teething and underweight; she also had fleas. I took her in and so began my lovely experience with hedgehogs.
Jackie is now grown and I set her free in June after a period of rehabilitation.

I'm here to learn more about these extraordinary animals. Unfortunately the "hedgehog culture" is not so diffused in Italy.
I co-operate with SOS Ricci, which is the only hedgehog specialized hospital here.
I'm reading books and web sites and I think this forum could be very useful to gain knowledge of hedgehog, to chat with real hedgehog lovers and... to improve my English!

I look forward to hearing from you all! Bye

(I say sorry for any grammatical error.)

Hi, good to have you here!!
It's quiet at the moment, I pop on when I can - I work in a school and as its the end of term things are busy for us staff!!
It is also incredibly hot!
Anyway, nice to 'meet' you!!

Hello and welcome to the forum. Good to have you here, hope you learn some more facts about Hedgehogs.

And no need to worry about your English, it's very good.

Bethany.

Trish wrote:Hi, good to have you here!!
It's quiet at the moment, I pop on when I can - I work in a school and as its the end of term things are busy for us staff!!
It is also incredibly hot!
Anyway, nice to 'meet' you!!

Hi Trish!
These are busy days for me too: I'm going to have an exam about English Morphology next week so I have to study study study...
How nice you work in a school! I love children and I have been a baby-sitter for 3 years.
Today here in Italy the weather is bad and it's raining at the moment. It seems to be November, not July.

Bethany wrote:Hello and welcome to the forum. Good to have you here, hope you learn some more facts about Hedgehogs.

And no need to worry about your English, it's very good.

Bethany.

Thanks for the welcome Bethany! I'm happy to be here
I'm always worried about my English because I'm afraid of writing something wrong... I don't want to seem rude.
For example, I wrote "SHE had fleas" instead of "IT" referring to my hedgehog Jackie because my English teacher told me: "An animal is not an object, we have to respect all creatures so use he/she".
But I read some posts and everybody uses "it"...

Yes, most people here say 'it'. Out of habit I think, but not to worry.

Nice to have you here.

Bethany.