Loving all the advice about how to take care of
little hedgies…Where else can we learn this kind of stuff? Thanks to
Trisha K…This site rocks!

SQUEEEEE!

Meg, you gave us something
really special today with these baby hedgies and their little ‘tocks…So awesome and so prosh..cutecutecutecutecute…

Awwww.

They have a wonderful mom in Holly and a fun grandma in Trisha K.

How cute!

Cuteness Unbound!

Actually, AuntieMame, it’s a really common misconception that hedgies enjoy “tubing.” I think they hate it, and I’ll explain why I think so. In the wild, hedgehogs go looking for bugs in little crevices and pieces of wood. When they’re done, they pull their heads back out and move on. When a hedgehog sticks his head into a toilet paper tube, he thinks it’s a log with maybe some tasty bugs inside. When he tries to pull his head out, it’s stuck, and he can’t get rid of this thing on his head. Think of the last time you tried on a shirt that’s too small. When you try to pull it off over your head, it can get stuck. I know that I start to panic a little when that happens, and a little hedgehog who doesn’t understand that the toilet paper tube is not a log would be scared to death when it got stuck on his head. Watch a video of a hedgie “tubing” – he’s walking BACKWARDS, trying to get away from it. Yes, yes, he goes back and does it again – because they’re small animals. They don’t have enormous brains like people do. That hedgehog forgot already that he got stuck in the tube, he just thinks it’s another log with maybe some tasty bugs inside. I hate watching videos of hedgehogs trying desperately to escape from a tube, and I would never give mine one to play with. I’m working on a care sheet for new hedgie owners that I will be giving with each of my babies, and I intend to stress the cruelty of tubing in there.

Amazing how the hedges start as pink sea cucumbers with feet…and then before ya know it they’re adorable mini hedges!

I can has hedgie too?? But not the babeh pinkies which are kind of “ew”.

Potential hedgie owners, don’t forget the toilet paper roll! Very important!