Little Oscar

Little Oscar was outcasts by the other little 'children' in the forest as little Oscar was born with natural spines around his body.
Even though it was not his fault that he was made that way, the other animals in the forest failed to understand this fact and continue to haunt Oscar's mother with complains about how their children were poked by his spines as they played.

They nagged and bragged for Oscar's mother to watch out for him or do something about his spines, which was ridiculous as Oscar was born a hedgehog and there is nothing they could do to clean his spines.

Due to this, the other baby animals like to make fun of him. They began to call him unpleasant nicknames such as “Scary monster” or “thorny baby” every time Oscar was around to join in for any of their games.
Dejected and sad for being shunned by the other animals in the forest, Oscar hid himself behind a thick bush where no one can find him.

Oscar was crying and about to start hibernating, when he heard a terrified scream made by one of the baby animal who refused to play with him.
Curiosity killed the cat; Oscar decided to take a peep of who was making that scream and what caused him to let out such a terrified scream.

To his horror he saw Mr. Snake, the most vicious cobra in the jungle, trying to attack poor toady with its venom as he glides nearer and nearer to him with his fangs ready for a delicious attack.

Instantly, Oscar curled himself into a ball and rolled himself as quickly as possible to rescue toady.
Oscar rolled before toady just before Mr. Snake digged his fangs on his leathery skin used for the toad for better water retention.

Mr. Snake moved back in anger upon sensing his skin brushing against the sharp surface of Oscar's spines. The snake glared ferociously at the sharp ball before withdrawing himself into the jungle to heal his wounded mouth.

The two baby animals were left alone. Toady was very terrified by the fearful encounter and even more frightened when he saw that Oscar was not moving, even though he called him a lot of times.
Toady was about to get help from the other animals when Oscar began to roll back into his original shaped.

It was later that they discovered that hedgehogs a naturally gifted with the ability to immune themselves against snake venom due to the protein erinacin in the animal’s muscular system; and its spines are meant to defend itself against any vicious predator’s attack.

Amazed and embarrassed for their harsh action towards the hedgehogs’ family, the other animals apologised for their ill treatment and start to look at Oscar as a hero for his bravery in risking his life to save toady against Mr. Snake.

Since then, the animals also learned their lesson and try to accept others the way they are as everyone is purposeful the way they are.