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Hi Everyone... I have recently noticed people referring to an Algerian hedgehog that looks just like mine, but I was told Lex was an African Pygmy... Can anyone explain the difference? Thank you!

Hi Everyone, I have an extremely picky hedgehog who will actually stop eating completely if I make any change to her food at all. When we first got her and tried to gradually change her food to a high quality cat food, she stopped eating and we didn't realize she had been. She ended up very...

Just some cute pics.... Picture #1: It seems the older Lexie gets, the more messy she gets. This is her cage after ONE night (it was cleaned before I went to bed last night). Looks like i'll be cleaning it again this morning! Can you spot the hedgehog? Picture #2: Her homemade fleece bag is...

How old was your oldest hedgehog? I see a lot of people who's hedgies die around 4 and am just wondering if anyone has hedgies who have lived longer?

Do any of you feed your hedgie alfalfa hay? Can they eat it? I would never have thought they would/should eat it, but there was an ad for a hedgehog needing a new home and the owner listed alfalfa hay as it's favourite treat. (I tried searching the forums but couldn't find anything on the...

Does anyone have any experience with same sex hedgehogs in the same cage? Does it go over well and do they benefit at all from sharing a cage with another hedgie? Thanks!

How many of you have been pregnant/with newborns or small children and had hedgies? Any warnings? I've read some posts on not handling the feces or cleaning the cage but anything else? Is it a bad idea? Thanks!!

Each day we weigh Lexie. She usually weighs in around 299g, but every now and then she will be 314 or 289... I don't know if there is something wrong with my scale...or if her weight can really fluctuate that much in a day? I don't weigh her at the same time every day, should I be doing that...

To buy, or not to buy? Pet store's that supply hedgehogs are notoriously terrible at caring for them properly. Still, many people buy from them. Some on here have argued that pet store animals need homes too, while others respond with things like the more you buy them, the more they supply them...

Any advice on how to keep a hedgie from drinking bath water? I change the water when she goes in it, but I never seem to be fast enough.....

So, none of my friends care but I knew you guys would.... As of today I have a littered trained hedgehog!!! It only took 2.5 months :wacko: but for the last week that triangle furniture in the corner of her cage has had fresh poop in it and her liners have actually been clean when I get up in...

Does anyone use a single level ferret nation or critter nation for their Hedgies? Can you pull out the bottom tray (floor) and wrap fleece around it? I'm having a helluva time with the liners...we weighed the liners down and so now Lexies life mission is getting underneath - every night she...

I had my first bought of hedgehog advocacy which apparently develops after purchasing a hedgehog. I bought Lexie from a pet store - although I had done lots of research on her, none of it included forums where I learned after purchasing her that pet stores are a no-no. The store we got her...

What do you do to add more fiber into your hedgies diet? Lex has high fiber foods (well, as high as cat food goes) - but I worry she's not getting enough fiber because cat food is made for carnivores not omnivores...She poops really well, don't worry about that, but she should have more fiber...

So, a few weeks ago I posted on here about Lexie getting really sick and not eating. We nursed her back to health and she's been good since, but over the last week we have noticed she was slowly eating less and less each night (from 20-30 kibble a night, down to between 9 and 12). We took her to...

I don't know if anyone lives in Calgary on this site, or even if this is where I should post this, but if anyone does who takes Chins, please consider this listing. http://calgary.kijiji.ca/c-pets-other-pets-for-sale-Chinchilla-and-cage-100-W0QQAdIdZ278948907 This guy seems like he doesn't...

Do all hedgehogs self anoint? Has anyone had a hedgehog that doesn't do it?

Well, we made some liners for Lexie and this is what happens.... The first picture shows her sleeping under her liner under her tent, and the second one is the constant fleece lump we see wandering around her enclosure. The third one is just cute! Luckily she comes out to poop and pee!

I think my little, 280 gram Lexie could win an eating contest. Now that she is well from our recent troubles...she has been consuming between 21-31 kibbles in 24 hours. Her stomach is only the size of a dime and these kibbles are the size of a dime too so I can't even fathom where all these...

Many people warn about this on the forum, but I have recently had a very bad experience with it and would like to share my information. When we first got Lexie we were feeding her the hedgehog food that she was being fed previously. It didn't have a lot of the bad stuff in it, but it wasn't...