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  1. Hedgehog Personality and Behaviour
    Hi everyone! I recently got my second ever hedgehog after over a year of my first hedgehog passing away. My current hedgehog is 8 weeks old and a male. He acts completely different from my female runt of the litter hedgehog and am unsure what is normal behavior. My family and I are giving him...
  2. Hedgehog Personality and Behaviour
    Hello! I’m new to owning these amazing little dudes!! Any bonding tips? I’ve only had mine for 2 days now so I know he’s still scared of me but I want to make sure I’m doing everything I can for him, so any tips, tricks, anything would be really helpful and greatly appreciated! thanks!!
  3. General Questions
    hi I just adopted a new hedgehog. his name is kent. as you can see in the pic, I put a separator between kent and harvey (my old one). however sometimes I saw my old harvey being aggressive toward kent (please see vid in the link) while kent seemed chill with it. is it a normal behavior between...
  4. Health
    Before you get mad, this is my sister's hedgehog. I only started "taking care" of her because my sister only loved her for about a few days until she got bored. Right now, she's aggressively ramming into things, sniffing much more than usual around me and extremely erratic. She's also hissing a...
  5. Fun Stuff
    My little guy is a sleep talker and sneezes when he's excited! 😪🤧 Recently I've moved to college with my hedgehog Wilbur (male, African Pygmy, about 2 years old). Before this he and I did share a room (his pen was in my room) but he was very quiet! Only every so often he'd 'talk' in his sleep...
  6. Hedgehog Personality and Behaviour
    My 6 month old female hedgehog has always had a fairly strong attitude and sense of knowing exactly what she wants. Lately, she's been a little extra territorial with her toys and the wood chips in her cage. Most afternoons around 1 or 2pm, she comes out of her "house" grabs a mouth full of...
  7. Health
    Hi everybody, I took my boy Quilly to the vet yesterday. He had been irritable for the past 2 or 3 days, huffing and jumping every time we touched him and grabbed him, and generally being very skittish, also shaking his head a good couple times. The vet checked him everywhere (she had to sedate...
  8. Hedgehog Personality and Behaviour
    Hi everyone, My hedgehog is way more fearful after changing her cage. She hisses and pokes out when we put our hands in the cage and grab her. She will unfurl after a while of being in our hands but she is still moody. We haven't changed the way we have been handling her, and save for her not...
  9. Quills
    I brought home my new baby about 3-4 days ago, and tonight i noticed him itching. when i was handling him he seemed fine, but when i put him in his cage i noticed he used his leg to itch his back a few times and i heard him get out and about for the night and he itched for a solid minute. (he...
  10. Hedgehog Personality and Behaviour
    I've had Haine for a little over two years, and I've never seen her display signs of dreaming, so I wasn't even sure if she did dream. But in the past few weeks I've noticed instances of her having nightmares. I'll hear whimpering from her cage in the middle of the night and go over to her to...
  11. Hedgehog Personality and Behaviour
    My hedgie went to the vet because there was blood in his stool, he was very scared there. We got home and since he's been doing this(pic below). I'm not sure if he's scared or it's something else but it's quite worrying especially due to how helpless he looks. That is his potty btw, I put him...
  12. Hedgehog Personality and Behaviour
    Hi guys! I have had my hedgie for a couple months now and with bonding and all, she hasnt gotten any friendlier. She doesnt like to me handled, and when i do handle her, she is always hufffing puffing and popping. She doesnt take treats from me. Ive tried to be very patient with her over the...
  13. Hedgehog Personality and Behaviour
    Hi all! Ive had my new hedgie for over two months now and shes VERY grumpy. I handle her about 30-1 hour everynight and he just sits in a ball and huffs, puffs and pops. her quills are always up. my last hedgie wasnt like this at all. she was very social. My new hedgie just doesnt like to be...
  14. Hedgehog Personality and Behaviour
    Hello, I've had my hedgehog, Howie, for about five months now. He was a rescue, and I got him when he was about a year old. He's been entirely grumpy since I got him... still balls up whenever I try to hold him, talk to him, or make any sort of movement. Now, he's resorted to biting. Despite my...
  15. Hedgehog Personality and Behaviour
    Hi, I have a 7 month old male hedgehog who did something I've never seen him do, and it worried me a little bit. He was walking around, but then stopped to stretched out his front legs and his back legs, all the way until he was laying completely flat for a split second, then got back up and...
  16. Hedgehog Personality and Behaviour
    Hey guys, I have had my hedgehog a little over a month now and when i first got her wheel, she was using it every night because there was "evidence" in the morning. For the last two weeks she has not been using it. She has been eating drinking and pooping, but no longer on her wheel. Her nails...
  17. Hedgehog Personality and Behaviour
    So for some back story, I got two hedgie, a male and a female from a lady on kijiji and I've had them for 2 years now. She wanted to rehome them because they were "too aggressive" for her. Ill admit no matter how much i worked with them the female was always a little more uninterested in...
  18. Cages
    So my hedgehog Doug is in a cage that measures: 33 1/4-Inch long, 18 3/4-inch wide, 22 1/4-inch high with 1-inch wire spacing. I'll add the listing for the exact cage. I see no signs of stress on Doug. Is this large enough? If not what do you recommend, the actual brands other users have would...
  19. General Questions
    Hi, I am getting my baby hedgehog Quilbert from a breeder in one week, I was wondering if it would be okay to keep his cage in my laundry room. I am concerned that the noise from the washer and dryer machines might be upsetting and too loud for him? They are newer models and arent insanely loud...
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