Babymoli : yeah... its true... if I din put his house or take out his house.. he will run to sleep under the wheel.... last time with his fat body also can manage to squeeze himself under the wheel... -.-

SAME HERE!! Haha.. Yup comfirm he will only wake up at 7am, no matter what u r doing dat time.. I stay awake just to comfirm this.. now kepala pusing d.. hehe, n he really eat and poo during this hour la.. kinda like an alarm clock for me when he runs in the wheel to disturb me.. hihi..

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Added on August 25, 2008, 2:39 amLast nite, i hold my Mr Humprey even he is so grumpy.. then he starts loosen himself.. he is more relax.. even i got very very very itchy from his quills.. very very very itchy la.. but i have to get him used to my touch n smell.. no problemo for me la..

This post has been edited by kelvin_faye: Aug 25 2008, 02:39 AM

^good trying

I've been trying to feeding Ken Insectivora Fare, a food of mix insect...
on the 1st day I thought he finished all the food!!! but when I look closely... he din touch the food at all... he just throw it all around the cage :swt:

haha.. me getting a sample first from jack.. will try to see if he likes it.. u bought the whole pack izit??

Yeap... at first I was hesitated wan to buy or not...
but then I was thinking that if both Dakota n Ken likes to eat then its cheaper to buy the package as both also can eat... but now.. @.@

today will try again to feed both of them without any other food...

How much is the sample?? Sample is free or what?? Now i am confuse d lar!!! hehe..

Sample is free right? I bought the big package...

I BRAVED MYSELF again!! Wow!! I got rashes thingy coz i din use towel to pick him up!!

He still rolls up, but when i place him on my palm, he will uncurls and begins to stand, then wanna get down from my hand, arm area.. that's when i use both hands to hold him.. alternate his movements..

I wanna know, am i improving? or what other alternatives i can do? thanks ya..

^ as long as he's uncurl when he's with u and started to walk around to adventure means he's kinda okay with u. It's the sign that he knows ur smell and he 'kinda' trust u as he unroll himself. keep up the good work kelvin!

Hehe.. At least i have some progress here!!

N did u know dat, when he unrolls, i let him down to walk around.. he will walk nearby me, just a while la, then gona sleep again..

sometimes when my friends come to my room [the news dat i have a "mini porcupine" spreads fast] to see him, he will hiss a lot till they r gone.. he is really sensitive with smells!! when they r gone, and i touch him, he unrolls again.. hehe me so happy if he begins to accept me..

i bring him out to the greens for a short walk, always stay alert if he bite the grass, dont want to get him poison ma.. he will venture then come to me, then venture again, if i put the cloth down, he will quickly come n take a sit there, as if i train him to come to me.. so funny..

will try do that to train him, a way to pick him up.. hehe

Hedgehog Lovers!

How to know what colour is the hedgehogs?

If Salt & Pepper = ALL quills will be banded isit? Not a single without banded?

Coz mine, just realised that 70% = banded [colour = light brown], 30% = white quills..

So what makes him? Please advise ya..

^Kelvin it would be nice if u can provide ur Mr. Humprey picture with up close of his quills....

yours could be what most of us here term as snowflake, but to be honest it's quite hard to put a specific colour on the hedgehogs as they are categorized in many aspects. from description i think it could be a dark grey or grey.

while we're still in this topic, i think i can roughly assume that we have termed our hedgehog colours quite wrongly as very few of us have real salt & pepper. the majority of hedgehogs we see here are usually dark grey, grey, chocolate and i think there's a lucky few who have cinnamon or cinnicots too. and from the pictures i think we all have algerian hedgehogs.

salt & pepper hedgehogs have cream quills with 'black' bands. ours usually are dark brown bands or somewhere there.

meanwhile, it's not a snowflake unless the banded and white quills are evenly spread (50/50) or approximately there. but i think we messed up the categories as many petstores try to sell off their hedgehogs at a higher price by categorizing them as snowflakes even when they have like 20-30 white quills only.

i don't have any snowflakes so i can't show you any pictures, but i do own an algerian grey (with few white quills) and another one which i assume to be an algerian white. what type of white i'm not too sure (there's chocolate white, cinnamon white, blah blah blah you get the picture), but it's actually from bonai, and he told me it's a snowflake back then, hahaha...

This post has been edited by livingmonolith: Aug 27 2008, 04:02 PM

Well... my girl is true S&P with black banded quills and my boy is Algerian Grey color or known as S&P snowflakes as his white quills are more than brown quills... will post up both of their picture to let u all see the different

one of mine looked to be a snowflake when it was still a hoglet, but as he grows more and more white quills shed and are replaced with banded ones...

^ hahaa.... mine... as he grew up... white quills are all that u can see from him

Maybe you guys and gurls can find some reference of different types of hedggie colors here.

i referred here for my categorizations.

but of course, that's why i said there are many ways to categorize hedgehog's colours, i'm not too bothered though.

Thanks guys.. Lots of info from u guys here bout colours..

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