Hello! I have recently gotten my lovely LunaQuinn - she is a 4 month old albino hedgie. SO far, things have been great with her, however since this is my first hedgehog and my only knowledge of care & behavior is what the breeder told me and what I've learned from this wonderful website and forum. Here are some things that she does that I find a little odd (which are probably normal)
-for the past week, she has been losing a lot of quills. I called my breeder and she said that this is normal for her at this age, she is just quilling again. It's not MITES - she just received a dose of revolution three weeks ago & there are no signs of mites or any other problems related to her losing quills.
-she sleeps A LOT. Most of the time, she wakes up around 11/1130 and runs miles on her wheel all night. However, some times she is a little less active and super sleepy.
-Sometimes when I pick her up to play, she gets really antsy and tries to run all over the place 'til i put her back in her cage, at which point she darts to her hideaway.
-sometimes she climbs under her wheel and hides there for some reason..
-she doesnt seem to like "playing" other than running on her wheel at night.
-She absolutely HATES light.. at first, I had a red heat lamp on her cage. She wouldn't even come out at night to play or eat whatsoever - she would just sleep in her hideaway 24/7 unless i woke her up to socialize and eat. I recently changed it to a black light and she's out at 11/1130PM like clockwork. Sometimes shes even up playing/running when i wake up for work at 530AM - but the second i turned the light on she darted into her hideout, so i shut it off and she came back out to play. She knew i was awake and around her with the light off because I would reach in and feed her a mealworm and pet her and she was cool with it, so it wasnt a fear of me - it was the light. I wonder if she is blind? or maybe slightly vision impaired?
-The only issue that I've ever had with her was when I made her an egg once (she loves scrambled egg). She decided to eat ALL of it in one sitting while I was asleep (which is VERY unlike her) and she had some crazy diarrhea all morning. I made sure she drank plenty of water and she was fine when I got home from work that night and has been ever since. However, this morning we were playing - she got really antsy all of a sudden and i noticed a little diarrhea-like fluid leaked from her butt (VERRRRRRRY small amount.) I thought it was odd, but all shes been eating was her regular food. I havent noticed anything unusual since.
So that about sums it up. I was just wondering if there is anything special that I need to know about albino hedgehogs! Thanks!
-for the past week, she has been losing a lot of quills. I called my breeder and she said that this is normal for her at this age, she is just quilling again. It's not MITES - she just received a dose of revolution three weeks ago & there are no signs of mites or any other problems related to her losing quills.
-she sleeps A LOT. Most of the time, she wakes up around 11/1130 and runs miles on her wheel all night. However, some times she is a little less active and super sleepy.
-Sometimes when I pick her up to play, she gets really antsy and tries to run all over the place 'til i put her back in her cage, at which point she darts to her hideaway.
-sometimes she climbs under her wheel and hides there for some reason..
-she doesnt seem to like "playing" other than running on her wheel at night.
-She absolutely HATES light.. at first, I had a red heat lamp on her cage. She wouldn't even come out at night to play or eat whatsoever - she would just sleep in her hideaway 24/7 unless i woke her up to socialize and eat. I recently changed it to a black light and she's out at 11/1130PM like clockwork. Sometimes shes even up playing/running when i wake up for work at 530AM - but the second i turned the light on she darted into her hideout, so i shut it off and she came back out to play. She knew i was awake and around her with the light off because I would reach in and feed her a mealworm and pet her and she was cool with it, so it wasnt a fear of me - it was the light. I wonder if she is blind? or maybe slightly vision impaired?
-The only issue that I've ever had with her was when I made her an egg once (she loves scrambled egg). She decided to eat ALL of it in one sitting while I was asleep (which is VERY unlike her) and she had some crazy diarrhea all morning. I made sure she drank plenty of water and she was fine when I got home from work that night and has been ever since. However, this morning we were playing - she got really antsy all of a sudden and i noticed a little diarrhea-like fluid leaked from her butt (VERRRRRRRY small amount.) I thought it was odd, but all shes been eating was her regular food. I havent noticed anything unusual since.
So that about sums it up. I was just wondering if there is anything special that I need to know about albino hedgehogs! Thanks!
