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Hello,
I am a somewhat new hedgehog owner, I have had mine for just over a year. He is around a year and half years old and is getting real big. At first we had him in a 29 gallon aquarium with a mesh lid. Now he is the size of a small cat so we moved him into a dog kennel type thing and moved his house into it and food dishes etc last Monday. He liked it and everything but around 3 AM he woke us up screaming. I realized I forgot to put his blanket (an old t-shirt) in his cage, I put the blanket in the cage he calmed down curled up and went to sleep and was fine the next day and wasn't hurt or anything and was all playful. He didn't scream all week or anything was his normal happy playful self ( which is wonderful since he was abused before I got him a year ago.. he has come a long way) Anyways last night or early this morning he wakes us up screaming again. I am not sure why he seemed fine I opened the gate and he came right too me and wanted to play and stuff, the only thing I noticed is that he drank all of his water. I was wondering do hedgehogs do this screaming when they are spoiled and want things or could it be that I have field mice or something that is making him angry, I live in the middle of no where. Anyways I love my little hedgehog and he is one of the best pets I have had. He is pretty obedient and knows his name etc. I just don't like him waking us up screaming, we have a newborn baby in the house that we just got sleeping through the night and he wakes her up when he screams. Please give me some advice guys :):)

God Bless,

Dustin
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He looks like an African pygmy hedgehog just bigger. I am not sure of the exact breed but he is bigger then any other hedgehog I have seen in a store and he is going through another growth spurt. He is about a little over a foot long right now and still growing. We also keep him active. We play with him he runs around the house freely sometimes and we also when the weather is real nice take him outside and he plays in my wife's garden and eats grubs or those rolly polly bugs. He found a cigarette butt once and hated it, it was sort of cute, he didn't eat it just hated the smell. We treat him more like a dog then I guess a hedgehog. I am going to try to get some pics of him soon.

God Bless,

Dustin
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here are some pics in my office chair, he was not being a good hedgehog and holding still

Dustin

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Hello,
He is about 10 inches I measured him. He is a fun little guy though, sorry he wasn't a foot I thought he was , I shouldn't listen to my wife so much :p

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