Spinning Hedgehogs!

[Cazzie]

Sound advice from Hedgehoggy as ever I'm sure you'll get to grips with the tics sooner or later lol.

Was just wondering tho... any chance of a piccy or two?????!

[Schmoo]

Hi all

Piddle and Poop are doing ok (although not noticing much weight gain could be my rather inaccurate scales!)

I managed to catch them eating this morning and can't see any sign of bullying so perhaps Im just worrying over nothing

I will see what I can do about pictures

[smudge12345]

Hedgehogs are great creatures and will become quite friendly over time

We have one "Bruce" only because he is huge, he weighs about 4lbs and is at least a 3rd bigger than the others, not sure how many their are as they live under the Garage which is up on blocks so they have loads of room.

Bruce actually comes into the utility room to have a look around for food and will quite happily wander across the decking if we are sitting out there at night

One good thing is that they love eating the slugs we have, those big orange ones.

Only thing i advise to all with hedgehogs, if you have a pond make sure you cover it or give them a way out as we learnt the hard way when one must have fallen in and drowned. Now we have mesh over the pond, but have build a walk way down to the water if they need to drink.

Sit out with them at night and they will get used to you and feel quite at ease if you approach them after a while

[lol geoff]

Great thread this, keep it up.

[Cazzie]

Originally Posted by smudge12345

Only thing i advise to all with hedgehogs, if you have a pond make sure you cover it or give them a way out as we learnt the hard way when one must have fallen in and drowned. Now we have mesh over the pond, but have build a walk way down to the water if they need to drink.

Sit out with them at night and they will get used to you and feel quite at ease if you approach them after a while

I'll second all of that!

[Hedgehoggy]

Originally Posted by Schmoo

Hi all

Piddle and Poop are doing ok (although not noticing much weight gain could be my rather inaccurate scales!)

I managed to catch them eating this morning and can't see any sign of bullying so perhaps Im just worrying over nothing

I will see what I can do about pictures

Absolutely! As previously said, they chose to stay together in your outdoor hog house, so I think that in itself is a positive sign. How much do they weigh now?

Originally Posted by Cazzie

I'll second all of that!

And I third it!

[Schmoo]

Hi All

Piddle and Poop are doing fine (Piddle is about 1lb now and Poop is just over 200gs so is gaining slowly!) the difference in size is pretty impressive.

Oh my god! the mess Ive just cleared up has put me in a state of shock I can't quite believe two little creatures could create so much poopI had to give them a little paddle in the sink to clean their dirty little feet (in tepid water so as not to shock them) they seemed happy enough!

They are eating about half a tin of dog food a night now and the most part of a dish of iams kitten biscuits!(which I try to keep topped up) plus plenty of water. They are quite frisky so Im guessing thats a good thing x

[Marcia]

I completely sympathise with you, Schmoo. I'm caring for only one and last night she did no less than 9 poops and many puddles of wee. But hang in there because it's a good sign. Normal poos are your best friend, believe me. From them you learn that the hoggies are doing well and don't have any infections or worms.

Are they still inside your bath? You must be attracting flies by now only kidding.

Marcia

[Hedgehoggy]

Hi Schmoo

Just done an online weight conversion – If Piddle weighs (approx) 1lb = 453g, and Poop weighs (approx) 0.5lb = 226g, that’s rather a significant weight difference between the two. Can I suggest separating them now, if only to monitor Poop’s weight gain over the next few days while he doesn't have to share the food bowl with Piddle, as I would have expected their weights to be similar, and for Poop to at least weigh more than a little over 200g by now.

And, yes, they can be extremely messy critters! , especially when housing one or more together. Housed alone, you may find they’ll toilet in one area only, so separating them may be an added bonus for you too

[wildliferescuer]

Originally Posted by Hedgehoggy

Hi Schmoo

Just done an online weight conversion – If Piddle weighs (approx) 1lb = 453g, and Poop weighs (approx) 0.5lb = 226g, that’s rather a significant weight difference between the two. Can I suggest separating them now, if only to monitor Poop’s weight gain over the next few days while he doesn't have to share the food bowl with Piddle, as I would have expected their weights to be similar, and for Poop to at least weigh more than a little over 200g by now.

And, yes, they can be extremely messy critters! , especially when housing one or more together. Housed alone, you may find they’ll toilet in one area only, so separating them may be an added bonus for you too

I would second this advice. The bigger one may be stopping the smaller one from getting enough food. The hogs we have at Vale are seperated if they get to more than a 50g weight difference & we have found that this helps smaller hogs a lot.