hahah... hognap. Now only 17 days.... once 24 days sure cuter, hope she gets rounder too heheheh.

Oh dear, RIP to Igel.... gonna miss her. She was such a photogenic hedgehog.

Is that a 12 inch wheel?

Anyway, Carrefour is having a sale on Felton storage boxes I think.... I just got hold of one.... 2ft in length and 1ft wide.... not bad, great space and cheap also, only RM24.90.....

It is natural for them to be over protective with a hide box... coz it is their nature to hide from predators when they are resting.

Silent Wheel comes in 3 sizes.... small, medium and large.... the large one is 12 inches. Medium one is 8 inches.

Dunno lah, maybe from top angle it looks like the medium sized one hahahah....

Huh? What is that? Did you try touching it? Do check your female, she got any wounds? Bloody body parts?

Don't think that is vomit.... Anyway, is your hedgie fine now? Acting normal?

Monitor him. You let him walk and see how he walk... if got limp, then you need to check carefully, if fracture then sure need a vet liao.

Hedgehogs can sometimes hurt themselves.... climbing and falling.... I don't think it's the wheel if it has no sharp ages.... Maybe housing also can cause. Personally, after keeping hedgehogs for about 2 years, I really have never experience any serious injuries nor visited a vet for my hedgehogs too. One of my hedgehogs fell at 4ft and he was ok.... but of course I checked him carefully la.

Then he is ok lah. Should be no problem.

Sometimes cuts and wounds can happen. Nothing else sharp in his tank rite?

Animals self clean their wounds.... LOL.... not every wound you must bath it. How often you bath your hedgehog? I only do it like once in 2 or 3 weeks. I feel once a week too much hahahah.

The best water is of course warm water. The best shampoo is to use puppy or baby shampoo that has oatmeal in it.

Bathing is easy once you get the hang of it. Put your hedgie in the sink. You can either fill it up with water till it reaches the hedgie's chin or you can use the shower. I have done both, and the shower works the best because it gets rid of the shampoo suds easier than pouring water onto the hedgie.... but don't do this on your new hedgehog lah coz it may freak it out if it is not accustom to baths yet.

Toothbrushes are the best.... but I use a dish brush ahaahh. Big and easy.

Hahah... for dish brush, you need to choose the softest you could find. I found an Ikea one... it has a suction cup at the base, only RM4.90 and it is not too hard. Does an effective job once mature coz their quills could be hard to clean with a tooth brush coz short and small. Takes time. My hedgies bath about 5 minutes each.

There are plenty of organic and safe shampoos for sale for dogs and cats, just you need to know where to find and get the money.... coz normally 1 bottle is like rm30 over or RM40 over.

You have to trim the long nails on the back leg.... if you do not do so, it would break off by itself and hurt the hedgie coz it would break at the quick, which is the vein and that is painful.

Actually, hedgehogs rarely bite. I babysit a few hedgehogs before, touched many hedgehogs that are not familiar with me, none has ever bit me but one of mine did when I forgot to wash my hands after touching some dogs.

You can let people babysit. Tame hedgehogs would not bite anyone unless their hands smell like some other animal or some chemical. The one about biting people that are not their owners.... that is kinda uncommon lah. It could be wrong handling or wrong touching. Never put your hand infront of a grumpy hedgehog, for sure it would in someway show it's anger....

How big is the bald spot? are you sure it is mites? Sometimes sparseness can appear after quilling and it would grow back.

You check carefully. Only use frontline when you are sure there are mites. You look carefully. We must not simply use frontline on hedgehogs coz it is after all poison.

If sheimi is not scratching, not producing dandruff, then it has no mites lah. Just give him a normal bath. Quills will grow back. It is afterall their hair... like ours lah, we also sometimes drop hair.

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Added on November 28, 2007, 8:26 pmHere is the little hoglet that is 29 days old today.

Already very naughty but not fully weaned since now eating dogfood and milk porridge hahahah. Cutie pie here.






This post has been edited by crazymouse_yyh: Nov 28 2007, 08:26 PM

Hehehe... thanks. She is tiny but playful. Always wanna climb onto my palm when i place my hand into her tank. Then she would chew my fingers for fun.

The vet contacts for exotics are already highlighted in red in the vet thread.... you didn't thought of looking there?

Anyway, here is the contact.

Dr Yeoh Eng Cheong in Taman Megah - 03 7804 8684

Call and ask them for a vet that can treat hedgehogs.... coz I don't think Dr Yeoh is at his clinic everyday. Anyway, so far he can treat hedgehogs well, even sugar gliders.

Ah, this little hoglet I'm not gonna keep. New owner is waiting anxiously hahahah.... and patiently, thank goodness.

Hand tame hedgehogs are cuties, they are very trusting and also very curious. The hoglet loves to chew my fingers and give me licks too.

Go find out the birthdate lah.

Last time when my friend bred his hedgehogs, all his hoglets got birth certificate wan. Kinda cute. This little hoglet I got was born on Halloween's Eve.... easy to remember.

Yay, today 30 days old and is 35g.

Catfood, do get hold of Royal Canin.... you can use Fit 32, which is better. Or if you can spend some money, get hold of Acana catfood, or Orijen catfood. Look around, some brands like Evolve, Go Natural, Felidae.. can be used. Do not get anything from supermarkets.

Pitiful rite? Why are they puny? Well, sometimes a female would cannibalize their young so to avoid losing money (coz 1 hoglet can fetch RM300) the breeders would separate the hoglets at 3 weeks old or 4 weeks old. I saw before Carrefour selling albino hoglets that are the same size as my hoglet. So you can imagine how unhealthy they are since they do not get enough nutrients when separated at a young age.... the sellers won't even soak the catfood, just dump dry ones in. Sometimes they feed low quality catfood.

Dry ones like hamster? Since when catfood looks like hamsterfood? LOL...

No lah... what I meant with my quote is that underage hoglets need soaked catfood coz they do not have strong teeth. If you are buying from a breeder, then he/she would have weaned the hoglet off soak catfood and have given the normal dried one already. Read carefully, I did say those separated at a young age.

The light is to attract people only. Not necessary for their health and this also happens with sugar gliders at Ikano. They put the exoterra light and shine brightly at those poor animal eyes.....

Sigh... petshops... think of profit making and attracting customer only.

Read up on everything you can. Google African Pygmy Hedgehog care and you sure are gonna come across alot of websites. The 1st page of this thread got plenty too.

Hahaha.... hedgehogs are cute but not all would be as friendly as mine. Some are naturally grumpy, some are super friendly, some are quiet and reserve, some are overly active.... so need to choose the right one.

actually, I can tell you that not every parent would like a hedgehog. If families who take feng shui seriously, then they would object to such a pet.

Do your homework first, sure you will come across a breeder with some hoglets for sale.

Petshop hedgehogs are normally not healthy. So better not support them at all. They feed the wrong food, use the wrong bedding, never interact with the hedgehogs.... so if you get from a petshop, I think for sure you will have some time getting rid of mites and flaky skin, as well as taming it.

Hahah... not gonna keep lah coz people request me to breed. I own 3 hedgehogs myself hehehe.