HAHAHA...yea, really look like a pig JK

Wah... so cute

Btw, how often can we bath our hedgie? Is it ok if once a week?

carebears_may you picture show your hedgehog look like no quill and soft to carry it

I can't hold my Bo Chai like that, not the quill problem, is when i carry him , he just want to run away

Ryo, my Bo Chai bath once a week, but i feel abit smelly also, i have brush whole body, but don't know which place still got that smell

This post has been edited by vincent09: Oct 25 2007, 12:50 AM

Yeah, even my Warrior and Mimi also the same...They doesn't like

I know male hedgie more smelly than female I use to compare both smell every week

But after bath the smell still there, no idea where is it, i think not the head part....
Because after bath i will carry him awhile, my hand is holding his below fur there, after that my hand got the smell..... not very strong but still got that smell

Hahahaha.... Guess you didn't clean the part near belly button. Normally there smell stronger. You must also need to clean the fur part. Need to use hand to rub rub the fur but i guess male's pee pee very strong smell. So kinda difficult to get away the smell. May be can try mix with baking soda. Heard it can get rid of smell on dog, so guess it will have the same effect on pokimon.

did anybody really know about wobbly hedgehog syndrome? read through the info from internet but still dunno wat really is. i suspect my hedgie diagnose with WHS. his left body side its like very heavy and walk very slow, not really using his leg. i'm worried man.

whs is the hind legs i think, not sure if it affects one side only.
help the hog exercise and make sure he can reach his food & water
if u bred him before, u shld probably let the owners who bought his offspring know so that they can look out for this

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Added on October 25, 2007, 12:22 pmhere's something for us to ponder about hog being solitary. i have a pair of hogs. 1 male and 1 female. i keep them in a petroom where i used to have my sugar gliders & hamsters. in separate toyogo boxes. but the female always climbs into the male's box & they like to sleep together in the same hidebox. every time i separate them, this happens, she wil climb into the next box.

so much so that i have to put them in separate rooms now to prevent accidental mating. so is it true that hogs are solitary animals? sure we have read about hogs in the wild being solitary but i believe as they get domesticated(in terms of diet, habitat, breeding habits) after generations of breeding , we chg their behavior too.

what do you think, ppl?

This post has been edited by hungheykwun: Oct 25 2007, 12:22 PM

Thank you for the info, that belly button, hmmm,
next time use hand rub rub fur there

Well, maybe your friend had another type of interesting smell. Coz they do have better noses than us. anyway, when it bites, move your hand away and tap the nose or push the nose away.

Wow, your hedgehog is quite overweight. What food have you bee feeding Zai? He could be walking slow coz body weight heavy..... do you have a wheel? Or do you let him out of his tank to walk around?

By nature, they are solitary.... but they do fight. Who knows, the female may climb in coz she wants to breed.... coz animals can smell breeding hormones. When I left my male in the female's tank for 2 weeks to breed, my male got a bitten ear. They sleep together and cuddle together like a loving couple but hedgehogs are not meant to be together.

yeah.. now he slim down a lot d lor.. tat was last time pic. feeding orijen mix with acana.
i do give him the wheel but nowday bcoz of the sickness, didn't play the wheel d.
he jalan just like orang tua. slow and senget sebelah to the left side.
always find some info about this sickness through internet but its like no cure. sad

Ah, that's good. The food is ok too....

Have you read this?

http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/comemeetmyfamily/wobblyhs3.html

Wow nice and important info for hedgehog.... But do you guys help hedgehog nail cutting ?

Nail cutting, I only trim the back legs coz the front nails always short, but the back legs got 2 toes always long.... I just trim during bath using normal nail cutter.

and one question why did you buy an obese and old(1 year+ rite?) hedgie from unknown breeder anyway?

I see, for me i feel like hard to cutting my Bo Chai nails if i want..... Always "POP" or move here move there 1.

no no no.. when i 1st bought him, he was not this fat.. and i think not a year+ old. should be less than a year hedgie.
i bela him for about a year d. recently only saw him got this sickness.. this hedgie was actually from Reanne.

o_O: regardless the hedgehog should be taken care of.

La... never say earlier..... Your hedgie just loves to eat hahahah... the last time I saw him, he was such a piggy.... if he lost weight already, then that is good.

I guess for now you can give him the best loh. He really is a happy hedgie, all the good food. If he got WHS, he won't be running on his wheel but you would need to let him walk around your home abit, with you keeping an eye on him.

This post has been edited by crazymouse_yyh: Oct 26 2007, 09:40 PM

yep.. tats wat i'm trying to do. but he seems walk a little bit only. dunwan to walk much. maybe should use some trick, food. hehe..
hopefully its not WHS. and thanks for caring.