This is my girl..

Name - Cottie
Age - 2 months +
Color - Snowflake SNP
Got her from leonhooi
Loves - exploring, jumping down a cliff (have to stop her from doing that all the time) and rolling her toilet roll on poop
Dislikes - ppl waking her up, she will hiss and become spiky



Lately, Cottie has been biting me many times. She showed signs that she wants to come out from the cage when she wakes up, I put my hand beside her, she put her pawns on my hand, and sniff and BITE. It's not like she is cranky or bad-tempered, so I'm afraid she may be using bite as her way in getting things done.

Any ways to keep her from biting? I tried blowing air into her nose everytime she bites, she would let go but now my hand has 2 punctured holes and bled a little after trying to stop her from biting.

no she doesnt annoint herself after biting me many times in one day. ok will try to scream.. xD

Hmm I'll try my best becoz she tends to sink her teeth into my finger and pull hard several times before letting go. @_@

A video of her sleeping





Cottie chasing my hand while I'm cleaning her cage

This is what I meant when she bites me. If I stop moving my hand at one spot, she will definitely chomp on me.
Of course I was only cleaning the cage.. she is very cute but snappy too ^^;

*today I stopped my hand awhile and I can feel her mouth opening so I managed to pull my hand away before she does it.
I should probably sacrifice my hands tomorrow and let her bite on it then I'll try to advise her to let go @_@

Some more pics of her







This is how she sleeps

This post has been edited by rexeren: Aug 24 2011, 01:12 PM

Anyone bought the wodent wheel for their hedgies?

My Cottie's like that too... she's always huffing puffing when I try to take her out after she wakes up, startles easily, but once she is carried up and handled awhile she becomes okay and active.
I did give a piece of shirt with my scent too ^^;

I think if they get used to it , it should be fine. My house can get a little noisy at times with shouting, walking up stairs, running or movie sounds, so my hedgie definitely needs to get used to the surounding sounds, at first she does get startled easily, after 1-2 weeks, she is kinda used to it, and can even sleep when my mom is talking loudly around or someone runs past.

Just bring back the hedgehog (they may protest just by seeing the images online), eventually they may grew to love your hoggie too, just like my mom did



Sharing my pictures of Cottie...

Lazing around...






When eating, she is allowed to be touched, if not, she'll get startled easily




Sitting lady-likely...

Rocky is cool.. My cottie is 30% toilet trained, she poops one piece inside her poop box, and poops the other 2/3 pieces outside

Same here, I'll feel sad if she can't recognize me forever T.T

Grats sowhon!

Hi Devilene, you have such a sweet little girl <3

Mel Mel is so cute! She's so sweet to let you clean her up. My cottie cannot stop struggling when I try to dry her up T.T

Today Cottie gave me the shock of my life. It was lunch time and I brought along some dragonfruit, bengkuang and her favourite capsicum.

I gave her small bits of dragonfruit and bengkuang for her, after a few bites she began to act weirdly like vomit act or trying to get something out of her mouth. Didn't seem like she is choking as she can still walk around calmly, so I suspected it could be bengkuang stuck on the roof of her mouth (according to hedgie forums).

So I tried to place her down with her back on my lap and open her mouth but she kept struggling to get up. I can see that she was very uncomfortable and she kept trying to dig it out with her paw for half an hour but to no avail. I thought of inserting my finger into her mouth but was also thinking of her teeth sinking into them.

1 hour passed and I thought that I need to sacrifice my baby finger to free her from the suffering. Then I saw the piece of capsicum which was long, thin and solid enough to insert into her mouth. So I held her still and insert the vege inside her and boy did she clamp on it hard. With a few more tries I managed to shove the bengkuang piece off the roof and .. Yay! She returned to normal, swallowed the bengkuang, chomp down on her saviour capsicum and kept eating as usual ^^

Thanks for reading this far.. XD

Yeah I've seen this brand sold in tropicana city mall petsmore

Ok about this,, I have sort of a weird and bad experience in this.. I was cleaning cottie's cage and she came to me and sniff my fingers, when I see her open her mouth to bite, I wanted to avoid by pulling my hand away, but she got me first.. And together I yank my hand with her biting on me and she FLEW to the side and hit the wall of the cage.. but she is fone nevertheless. I hope T.T

I feel sad for myself as an owner..

You misunderstood me. I always try not to let them bite by pulling my hand away, this time I pulled my hand 0.2 secs too late and she got me first, and at the same time I pulled my hand away, thus it happened. So it was sort of an accident

I'm thinking of gettin superworm for my girl, read online that you'll need to chop off the worms' heads before feeding to your hoggie to avoid its biting. Any owner doing that? Do share what did u used to cut it off... Of course I am talking about live ones.. Not canned. Thank you!

> you can use cutting blade or ruler, i used cutting blade to cut the mealworm in half for Nephtie as she won't eat it at first X.x

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Wow that's pretty hardcore.. XD
I'll probably try superworms once my brakemen supply finishes

@nanadeadbeat: your hedgie is so very cute! I wished mine can stay still too ^^;
@ix3rukia: got it, but it just kept me wondering that the hedgie forums out there do say that the worm bit them, could the 'foreign' worms be different than our 'local' superworms

Surprisingly my hedgie loves fruit and veggies especially capsicum.

@Devilene : don't worry yours not the only one, my girl is also suicidal too, once she kept jumping down from the table and When I saved her for the 25th time she bit my hand :/