Recent content by GreaseLightning

So, for those of you who are curious, the Metacam did make an improvement. She still continues to get up, eat, drink, poop, and sometimes use her wheel, but then she goes back to sleep. She gets her Metacam on a few mealies. At some point during the night, she must get up again, because I have...

Went to the vet, who did an exam under sedation. Absolutely clean bill of health, except the leg that has arthritis apparently has worse arthritis and decreased range of motion. The conclusion was that it's possible she's so uncomfortable moving around that it's easier to just sleep all night...

I doubt that it's the light that bothers her. I have my main light for my room on a timer, so there's nothing directly over her cage that could bother her. Where I live, anything over her cage would probably overheat her right now. She's never really acted strange when I use lamps for light/heat...

I've had my hedgehog, Rizzo, for about 2.5 years now and I believe her to be at least 3 years old total (she was a craigslist rescue, so it's anyone's guess, really). Lately, in the past 2-3 months, I have noticed that she has been sleeping/inactive more and more. She sleeps all day...