My experience with cats is that they will either A. ignore it or B. obsess over it until they figure out a way to kill it. If they are type B, then you must keep it in another room with a closed door, keep it in a heavy glass aquarium with a wire mesh lid, and keep a clamp or lock on the cage lid. This is how we kept our mice safe when we had a cat.
With dogs, it depends on the dog what they will do. My first dog, a Sheltie, understood instinctively about pets and would not even think about harming any of our small animals or birds. My current dog, a Tervuren, obsesses like a cat over my dove, but leaves my chicken alone after the chicken pecked her nose. If confronted with a spiny hedgehog, she would learn right away to leave it alone.
However, a dog like a Lab or Beagle or other dog bred to hunt/retrieve might obsess over picking up the hedgehog and playing with it. They might persist depite the spines. My mother had a dog that kept atacking porcupines over and over despite the spines.
The advantage of dogs is, they can be trained. A dog should obviously not be left alone with a hedgehog, but you should be able to train most dogs to leave it alone.
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