The Scottish Hedgehog International Terror Executive (SHITE) today warned Scottish National Heritage that it won't have it easy when it arrives in North Uist with the intention of exterminating the prickly wee buggers.

SHITE troops at an Afghanistan training camp

FirstFoot understand that rather than undertaking their usual six months winter hibernation, many hedgehogs attended guerrilla training in Afghanistan and have adopted classic warfare tactics by organising themselves into loosely knit hedgehog terror cells.

The hedgehogs have the advantage of knowing the terrain, being small and difficult to find and allegedly having stockpiles of chemical, nuclear and biological weapons.

Osama Pin Cushion, self-proclaimed spikesperson for SHITE, told FirstFoot that they were prepared to die for their cause. "This isn't a war about gulls eggs. It's an economic war. Scottish Natural Heritage sees the potential in guano and thinks that hedgehogs are eating our way through the means to production."

"But we will fight them in the hills and on the beaches. We will crawl into their underwear while they sleep, we will urinate in their food supplies and defecate in their toothpaste. We will never surrender."

A spokesperson for SNH said they didn't give a fuck, they were just on the island to get pissed and squish the wee bastards and didn't care how long it took.