Who ate all the cat food?

IT’S not only humans facing an obesity crisis — hedgehogs are piling on the pounds, too.

Semi-detached suburban Mr and Mrs James are engaged in a ‘competitive feeding’ frenzy to attract the spikey animals into their gardens.

According to Anne Brummer, from a hedgehog rescue centre: ‘People want to tempt them away from their neighbours, so they overfeed them.’

Some people are putting out cat food and dog biscuits, leading to hedgehogs spurning their traditional balanced diet of slugs and insects.

At this rate, it can only be a matter of time before giant hedgehogs start terrorising entire neighbourhoods — like Spiny Norman, the imaginary companion of Dinsdale Piranha, one half of Monty Python’s gangster Piranha Brothers.

Miss Brummer said the hedgehogs find fattening food irresistible. ‘They tend to be exactly what the name says. They live in hedges and eat like hogs.’

Dinsdale!