Les Sous-Vêtements Dans Un Noeud

That's what the translation programs on the web return for a phrase that describes perfectly the condition that French hedgehog aficionados are in today. It seems a French hunting almanac had a recipe they took great exception to: hedgehog stew.

The recipe appears in the Almanach du Chasseur (The Hunter's Almanach), published by a company called CPE in Romorantin, central France.

France's national hedgehog sanctuary sounded the alarm, pointing out that hedgehogs are protected species.

Killing them for the pot carries a potential penalty of 9,000 euros (11,700 dollars) and a six-month jail term.

Two groups for the protection of wild animals, Aspas and One Voice, said they had filed suit, demanding that CPE withdraw the book.

Now they are being kind of silly here. Everyone knows hedgehogs are only properly used as croquet balls. Perhaps the should be careful about starting a row over the hedgehogs, though.

The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting `Off with his head!' or `Off with her head!' about once in a minute.

Hedgehogs. What a thing to get your underwear in a knot over.