LAWRENCE, Kan. _ It is now legal to have pet hedgehogs in Lawrence after an 11-year-old boy spent three years lobbying against the ban.

Judson King, now a sixth-grader at Corpus Christi Catholic School, wanted a pet hedgehog, but found out the city's animal code prohibits them within city limits.

His mother, Rebecca Weeks, says she was hoping the law would be
a good excuse to quash the idea, but Judson kept researching how to
change the law.

Instead, he spent two years researching and sent a letter to commissioners last January.

They say they found fewserious reasons to keep the law on the books and approved the change last Tuesday.

Judson soon received his Christmas gift a two-and-a-half-month-old hedgehog named Little Luke.