ok, i hope i can get some enlightenment here from those who has experience rearing hedgehogs.

recently i bought one newborn about 3 weeks old, its a female. she is active and eat a lot but one thing bothers me. its her front right leg, it looks like twisted/ sprained/ broken to me and she limps when she walks. btw my bedding is recycled papers so i thought perhaps she is not used to the new bedding.

what suggestions are there? thanks

here are the attached photo, when it rolls up all the limbs should be inside right? though the pic of her sleeping looks pretty normal, i have another pic which shows her front right leg cannot bend at all. to upload tomorrow




This post has been edited by ati radeon: Nov 22 2011, 02:00 AM

yea, thats recycled paper bedding. petsmore has it also, its not woods.


im not sure about the front leg, she can move and use the leg to crawl and scratch but just it looks weird when the paw is not contacting the surface properly. any vets that look into hedgehogs in kl? how about the charges? btw she's about 1 month old according to the owner and well she eats like a pig!

i used to feed my hedgehog, a female 5 months old, with one brand of food which i forgot the brandname. now i feed it with prodiet cat food and royal canin(forgot which rc already). it tends to favor rc more but it attracts ants to it, yet the first one doesnt have this kind of problem.

plus what bedding do you guys use? i tried recycled paper, clumps the poo well and absorbs the pee well. now i switch to yoga mat for lower cost but the mat too absorbs the pee and smells. any other alternatives? wood shaving is a no-no, too smelly once soaked with urine

hey everyone,

i have a female hedgehog, about 1 year 8 months old. normally i use to scoop her up under the belly from the cage to clean it (the cage).

i did the same regularly everyweek, so as last week. as normal i scoop her up and place her gently on the washroom floor, i see it walking away normally to one corner where she likes to do her business.

but then i see her coming out limping at the left back foot, this is not the first time she is limping. her front left(or right, cant remember) was limping when she was 3-4 months old also and she recovered later.

so i thought probably she sprained her foot, i monitor her for 1 week. she still eats and drinks like usual. today i want to clean the cage again, so i scoop her up and this time i turn her around to have a look at the foot and belly.

and i found a large lump under her left chest, around the breast area of the left foot. her back left foot is still limping and she is dragging it. her front feet are normal, no limping motion when she moves.

is it a tumour already? i have looked around the internet, said WHS is common among hedgehogs and the symptoms starts with the dragging of the back feet. does it start with one or both?

i do not have picture now, will upload it tomorrow of her belly side.

I'm not concerned about the leg, i do not know whether WHS starts with one leg or both.

I'm more worried about the swollen part at the left Breast. Will bring her to kinrara vets as recommended by most ppl here. Is it still appropriate to go or there are better vets?

hi everyone,

so i went to kinrara vets and got the doc to check her up. said the leg probably is broken/sprained as the thigh area is very much swollen up and healing.

but as for the growth, he doesnt know what is that and suggested operation to remove it. check the uploaded pic for the look of the growth.
anybody here sent their hog for operation? my concern is that she will bite or scratch the wound after it is stitched.



This post has been edited by ati radeon: Jul 25 2013, 11:01 PM

ok, so i got her back from doc dev.

still too weak to drink or eat on its own. what food or fluid you guys use to feed hogs like this?