Are you bleeding every time you handle your hedgehog? If you are, you are definately handling her wrong.
I've only ever bled once from quills, and it was when my brat first came to me, and was NEVER socialized and curled in a ball around my fingers.
The proper way to pick up a hedgehog is to slide your fingers under their belly (with both hands, one on each side of the body), where they have soft fur. Lift your hedgehog, and then offer support by moving one of your hands under the hedgehogs bottom. So you have one hand under the belly, and one hand under the rump.
It's important to socialize you hedgehog everyday, to get used to you, and soon you guys will be great buddies.
I've only ever bled once from quills, and it was when my brat first came to me, and was NEVER socialized and curled in a ball around my fingers.
The proper way to pick up a hedgehog is to slide your fingers under their belly (with both hands, one on each side of the body), where they have soft fur. Lift your hedgehog, and then offer support by moving one of your hands under the hedgehogs bottom. So you have one hand under the belly, and one hand under the rump.
It's important to socialize you hedgehog everyday, to get used to you, and soon you guys will be great buddies.
