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LILY ANN JUST HAD TwO BABIES!!!! ***UPDATE 03-23-09***

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Hi everyone!

I picked up my new baby hedgehog yesterday morning from my local petstore. (Yes I know, no one like pet store hedgie, but I wasn't going to wait on an 8 month waiting list for the only breeder in CT.) Anyways, I've had her for a day and she's not eating!!! I'm worried something wrong, I had bought her the same "Vitakraft" food they were using in the store, to at somepoint start switching her over to a cat food or some other more nutrishional hedgie food. I know she did do some drinking last night, cause she knocked her water bottle off the side of the cage. I also found the poops she did last night before I went to bed, in her food dish, i'm maybe thinking she thinks it a toilet? I'm worried and I need some advice. She seems to be friendly and all, I had her out of her cage last night when she finaly woke up after she did some exploring of her cage for about 45 minutes. She seemed fine, she got along with my whole family, including my two dogs. She was a very happy hedgie. :) Still didnt eat though, I even tried giving her a few meal worm treats and she didnt even take those. :( SO I dont know, here the pictures of where she lives and of her, she's a cutie.

Thanks for looking,
Rob...

Living space: The bedding is a mix of White Pine, Spurce, and one other wood that NOT Ceader!
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I did put a box for a while for her to sleep in but she stopped using it last night.
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Here she is, I have not named her yet...
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 02-28-09***

She didn't eat all the mealies at once, it took her about 3 times to eat all of them...LOL but yea no more till weeks end.
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 02-28-09***

You know what i did? I crushed up the mealies and mixed them with the food so that the taste got on the kibble. That did the trick then i slowly stopped putting crushed mealies in there . Now she loves her kibble with out the meal worms! :)
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 02-28-09***

sagesmommy said:
You know what i did? I crushed up the mealies and mixed them with the food so that the taste got on the kibble. That did the trick then i slowly stopped putting crushed mealies in there . Now she loves her kibble with out the meal worms! :)
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Maybe i'll try that see how she dose :) Looks like she may have eaten some of the crushed kibble I left for her this morning. She's currently sleeping like a baby in the corner of her cage , still under my shirt I left in there for her this morning also! She was annointing before I left to my tshirt :D I was so Happy!!! Still no name yet..lol
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-01-09***

UPDATE 03-01-09:

MY HEDGIE IS EATING HER KIBBLE!!!!! YAAAAAAAAY! She woke up at about 9:15pm tonight, I within 20minutes took her out of the cage all wraped up in my tshirt. I went down into my room, and put the lights on low and held her in my lap. After a few minutes she started sniffing around. I talked to her quietly and told her how cute she was, while slowly running my hand down her quills. I even started giving her a quill "massage"...lol She liked it so much she fell asleep..lol
After she woke back up, I brought her over to my bed, I laid beside her as she sniffed around. Somehow she ended up in my shirt sleeve, it was kinda painful..lol It was kinda funny cause I kept taking her out and she kept looking at my like, "I want to be in there." Then after more exploring of my bed under my covers and seeing if she could dig under muh sheets, she then started to nibble on my arm and I knew it was time to take her back upstairs. I let her do some supervised running around my living room. My families 3 year old Shiba, Molli didnt know what was going on..lol Being her gentle self she is she went up and sniffed the hedgie a few times, she got poked a few times too, and kept looking at me wondering what that little thing was. The hedgie didnt care ans kept exploring..lol After about 20 minutes I put her back in her cage, and she went right for her dish with the handful of kibble I put in there this morning and started eating. :) I'm so happy!!
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-01-09***

aww! See little {kendra} is getting used to you! :D from the sounds of it , she seems to be warming up fast! Im so happy for you! Yay!
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-01-09***

Yeah, i'm really happy, i'm glad she's starting to get use to me. Oh I forgot to add she did eat some of the kibble out of my hand last night too :)
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

Great so, I just got off the phone with the pet store, and they said i cant exchange the food, cause it's "safe" HH food and they've been selling it for years now. So I just lost $9 in food. :( The manager said, "it's probably fine"....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

You know, if you want to return something , you should be able to return it , I would talk to a manager if i was you and say , LOOK! This is not safe HH food now give me my money!
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

So I went to the pet store to day, and my local fabric store. I got her a 12" wheel, and I got 2 yards of fleece thats made about 10 to 15 liners for her cage with plenty of strips for her to burrow. :) She seems very happy. :)
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

what kind of wheel did you get?
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

dorasdaddy said:
what kind of wheel did you get?
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Silent Spinner- Made by Superpet.
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

You may want to look into a bucket wheel, cake walk wheel, or flying saucer. Silent Spinners, Comfort wheels, and anything with wire or crossbars have caused many accidents. A solid running surface (no cracks) is necessary. :)
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

Hows this?

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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

I hacve had nothing but good luck out of the comfort wheel. I have heard many horror stories about hedgies getting toes and toenails stuck in the crack of a silent spinner...als heard that they can come apart while the critter is running.
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

dorasdaddy said:
I hacve had nothing but good luck out of the comfort wheel. I have heard many horror stories about hedgies getting toes and toenails stuck in the crack of a silent spinner...als heard that they can come apart while the critter is running.
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I've got that all taken care of, I put anti-slip material over the holes in the wheel, and I lock tited the center screw so it wouldnt back out. She should be okay. :)
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

Does the material have any kind of grit to it? remember that hedgie feet are really sensitive. You may also want to use something to tie the stand to the cage so it doesnt tip over.
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

dorasdaddy said:
Does the material have any kind of grit to it? remember that hedgie feet are really sensitive. You may also want to use something to tie the stand to the cage so it doesnt tip over.
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No grit, it's the soft squishy stuff i use for my tool box. I also have the wheel attached to the side of her cage, not on that stand.
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

Comfort wheels are fine. I've used them lots.

By putting something inside of the silent spinner any urine, which normally drains through the holes, cant drain and because of the scooped shape it will just stay in and your hedgie will be running in it all night. Silent spinners, no matter how much your tighten the screw, can still come loose, especially when attached to the cage. In general they are NOT considered safe for hedgies at all.
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Re: My new baby ***Updated 03-02-09***

nikki said:
Comfort wheels are fine. I've used them lots.

By putting something inside of the silent spinner any urine, which normally drains through the holes, cant drain and because of the scooped shape it will just stay in and your hedgie will be running in it all night. Silent spinners, no matter how much your tighten the screw, can still come loose, especially when attached to the cage. In general they are NOT considered safe for hedgies at all.
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I'll check it out, i'm pretty handy with cars and things that move i'm sure I can make it safer for her.
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Re: My new baby, Lily Ann!!! ***Updated 03-02-09***

I just named her Lily Ann!!! Yay! :mrgreen:
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