the food was L'Avian Hedgehog food. Being an exotic pet store I can understand them not stalking cat foods. I recommended he switch to Spikes delight or Sunseed Hedgehog food if shelving a commercial food. I've only seen Sunseed and one other (pretty bad) hedgefood in this area.
The hedge was on pine (as were all the animals). He knew about cedar being bad. Checking around on this site I found a lot of people saying 'kiln dried pine' is ok. I did comment about linners. He's thinking about switching all his cages over to Carefresh. Again, checking around on this site, seems carefresh (while not highly recomended) is okm past a concern for dust? As a shop owner, he cleans all the cages daily.
The lil guy didn't have a wheel yet, the size of the cage was limiting it. The owner was going to get a silent spinner for him & I recomended either a comfort wheel or flying saucer. He was shocked to learn about the concerns with silent spinners & toe nails and said that one of his suppliers does carry comfort wheels. There was a second man in the shop working who commented he'd had a silent spinner fall apart on him (not with a hedgie).
I was very glad to see that it was a single male hedgie housed by himself and not with others.
Oh, & as I said, he's looking for local breeders. We're in Halifax, NS & the current lil guy came from Mtl. So if there's any breeders in the Maritimes, you could give him a contact.
The hedge was on pine (as were all the animals). He knew about cedar being bad. Checking around on this site I found a lot of people saying 'kiln dried pine' is ok. I did comment about linners. He's thinking about switching all his cages over to Carefresh. Again, checking around on this site, seems carefresh (while not highly recomended) is okm past a concern for dust? As a shop owner, he cleans all the cages daily.
The lil guy didn't have a wheel yet, the size of the cage was limiting it. The owner was going to get a silent spinner for him & I recomended either a comfort wheel or flying saucer. He was shocked to learn about the concerns with silent spinners & toe nails and said that one of his suppliers does carry comfort wheels. There was a second man in the shop working who commented he'd had a silent spinner fall apart on him (not with a hedgie).
I was very glad to see that it was a single male hedgie housed by himself and not with others.
Oh, & as I said, he's looking for local breeders. We're in Halifax, NS & the current lil guy came from Mtl. So if there's any breeders in the Maritimes, you could give him a contact.
