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Any tips for hedgehog ownership or reasons not to? I had a roommate who sold them, but I've recently become curious about owning one.
He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it. -- T. H. White, "The Once and Future King"
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How about "Spiny Norman"?
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I used to own one. You know how you sometimes see people walking about with them, with the little hedgehog faces poking out of their arms looking all cute and adorable?
That wasn't mine.
Mine was reallly mean. If you got close to him, he'd ball up, and buck his head at you. They have extra long fighting spikes on their head, and he'd make a grinding, clucky, hissing sound while trying to get you with the head spikes. That said, I had him for 2 years, constantly taking him out, holding him not unlike a falconer with my heavy leather work gloves hoping to get him used to me and the ex so he would be cute and funny.
It just never happened. Finally the ex had enough and we donated him to a daycare. Teach those kids some responsibility! We replaced the hedgehog with a pair of ducklings. that's another story, other then to say that the TV show FRIENDS is a liar liar pants on fire and ducks DON'T make good pets in an apartment building.
Back to the hedgehog, I have no advice other then pick one that doesn't ball up and try to stab you when you hold it. Pick one that lets you hold and pet it with bare hands. Other then that, they're pretty great. They don't make much noise when you leave them alone, the food is cheap, and they aren't poo factories so cleaning the cage and wood chips isn't like cleaning a ducks pen.
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He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it. -- T. H. White, "The Once and Future King"
