Things turned prickly when a Florida teen allegedly attacked her mother in a custody dispute over the family’s pet hedgehog!
The argument, which ended in the arrest of the 18 year old, erupted Sunday evening when Emma Davisson got into a tiff with her unidentified mother over "living arrangements," The Smoking Gun reported.
The angry teen said she was "packing her things" to go and would be taking the hedgehog with but her mother was not prepared to let the family pet go as it was Davisson’s younger siblings who "were the ones caring for it."
Things turned violent when her 43-year-old mother tried to block her daughter from entering her sibling's bedroom. According to an arrest affidavit the teen "pushed and hit" her mother "several times to get into the room."
Davisson was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic battery count and booked into the county jail, The Smoking Gun reported. She admitted to pushing her mother but said it was in retaliation to being shoved.
Davisson was released Monday and ordered by a judge to have no contact with her mother. She did not win custody over the hedgehog but she has been granted a one-time visit to the home to retrieve her personal items.
The incident is not unique to Florida. Two years ago, a man was arrested and charged with aggravated assault when an argument with his son over a hedgehog turned violent. The altercation ignited when Homer Stacy allegedly told his son to pick up the hedgehog he had left behind at his father's house. Things escalated to the point where Stacy allegedly armed himself with a machete and baseball bat, reported WKMG.
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