Hedgehogs

The hedgehog makes it home in burrows in the ground even deeper then normal and the hedgehogs gather and keep to stay warm just like any other animal would do.

Hedgehogs can live on dry cat food just fine, but you should feed it mealworms or insects occasionally to give it extra nutrients. They will usually eat at night, so have their food and water filled regularly.

Hedgehogs are mammals, when they are first born they nurse from the mother, then the mother will eventually introduce their normal diet.

Hedgehogs can be social and friendly with their owners, but wary of strangers. Hedgehogs have a good sense of smell and will learn to recognise their owners scent and become comfortable with it. It all depends on how much you handle them. often hedgehogs are curled up into a spiny ball and will hiss and jump slightly when touched at first before they know who is touching them. best way to pick up a hedgehog is to slide your flat hand under the bedding that the hedgehog is on and lift them up. Usually they will then uncurl and snif at your hands, and if they know you will then become comfortable realizing your their mum/dad. As far as being cuddly, well Hedgehogs sometimes will snuggle into your sleeves or coats when your holding them, but they are prickly and can hurt if you get pricked.

Gerbils can talk with their bodies. When they look like they are kissing they are saying hello. Also when gerbils thump their hind legs it can be telling other gerbils there is danger, it's excited or it wants to mate.

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They hibernate during the winter. In most cases the males enter hibernation first (and arouse first during the spring), with the females following shortly afterwards. Most hedgehogs will have started hibernation by Christmas, although it varies from place-to-place and can be heavily influenced by the weather/climate and by any supplemental food available to them. In warmer climates, such as those in New Zealand, hedgehogs may forego hibernation altogether and remain active all year.

no, if it is a pet hedgehog it should not hybernate

"Pet hedgehogs need to be kept indoors in the warm and should never be allowed to hibernate as this can be dangerous for domesticated hedgehogs."

see http://www.hedgehogs.org/pet-hedgehog.htm for further details

To protect themselves and sometimes to antimidate their enemys

No - it's illegal most places to keep wild animals as pets. Not to mention, it's highly dangerous for you and will most likely kill the hedgehog due to stress.

A wild animal can never be a pet because they are not domesticated.

Wild hedgehogs will eat just about any insect they can get their hands on.

Domesticated hedgies can be fed mealworms, crickets, silk worms, wax worms, and repti-worms. Farm-raised ONLY, no wild-caught insects may be fed to domesticated hedgehogs!

Hedgehogs aren't adapt swimmers so they don't need to swim unless they are overweight and need low impact exercise. Other than that hedgies are quite content to their wheel.

This is for the African Pygmy variety. But most hedgehogs should be about the same. Content to dry land.

You need to ask the breeder you got the hoglet from what they fed the hoglet prior to purchase. Once they tell you, you should feed them that brand of kibble until they adjust to their new environment. Give them as much as they want to eat at night; but monitor how much they eat so you can tell if there's a problem.

Once you've given them a month or two to settle in, you can switch to a different food if you wish. However, make sure it's a great quality food (no by-products), and that it has around 30% protein and 15% or less fat.

Yes, but it is not highly recommended. They are known for eating cat and ferret food, found at local petstores and sometimes grocery stores.

Also they will eat meal worms, which can be bought in large quantities at exocicnutrition.com, which also provides food made specially for hedge hogs.

On ebay you can get the right food as well. The best brand for hedgehog food is called pretty pets, although it is rather expensive. So I would just stick to insects, and cat/ferret food.

You can offer it to your pet hedgehog to see if it likes it. Break it up into smaller bits for it.

As for wild hedgehogs, they might or might not; they are largely opportunistic feeders.

It depends on how large your hedgehog is. It would be wise to remove any tubes from the cage if possible, because more often than not your hedgehog will get stuck. My father used to breed hedgehogs so I'm not just talking out of my a**. I hope this helps.

Predators include wild dogs, wild cats, birds of prey, badgers, and other various animals.
Birds of prey, jackals, wild dogs, and possibly wild cats.

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Long legs, teardrop shape, beady eyes, dish ears, quills over back.

In the games and Sonic X, when Shadow uses Chaos Control, he is taking power from a Chaos Emerald to warp time and space.

The Chaos Emeralds turn thoughts into unlimited power and, in the right hands, can be used to control factors that are normally uncontrolled, like time and space (Chaos Control can stop or slow down time). Of course, this is all just make believe, the seven Emeralds are a creation of Sega and Sonic Team.

The Archie comics versions are different: the Emeralds are merely links to a great source of power called the Chaos Force. The Archie version of Shadow has a direct link to this and can use Chaos Control without Emeralds.

yes, in sonic underground his brother and sister names are manic and sonia

Heck ya they do and they like to kiss i once saw them sucking face it was very wet and furry. Later i saw the same one and it had a hickey.

They're vertebrates, they're born that way. An animal looking like that and living like that has to have some sort of supporting structure, and for the hedgehog it's a spine.

Or maybe you're thinking of the things that make them prickly, not the backbone. There are plenty of animals out there who would make themselves a meal of a fairly slow and harmless animal as a hedgehog, so the spines developed as a defence. If threatened the hedgehog curls up into a prickly ball, and anyone trying to bite or claw it end up getting hurt.

THe hedgehog ended up taking that route instad of developing an ability to run, hide or bite back.

A hedgehog is a small, nocturnal, insectivorous (sometimes almost omnivorous) mammal of the family Erinaceidae, with 17 species in 5 genera.

The hedgehog is a smaller mammal, walking very close to the ground on four long and thin legs. They commonly have a "tear drop" shape when viewed from the top and sides. Their backs and the tops of their heads are completely covered in short quills. They can completely roll into a ball to protect themselves from predators. While these quills do prick tender hands, they have no venom, are not barbed, and are not projectile in any way. Their face is elongated, almost like a shrews, with beady black eyes and a adorable button nose at the end. They have 36-44 teeth.

One species, The "African Pygmy", is domesticated. It's actually a hybrid of the Whitebellied hedgehog and the North African hedgehog. They typically weigh 1/2 pound to 1 1/2 pounds, and are adored as exotic pets due to the fact they are considered "relatively low maintenance". They come in a wide variety (135 colors, with dilutes being developed).