Hedgehogs keep coming, I guess they’re not ready for sleep yet.

how do we get them to warm up to us? does it take long? any useful information helps!

Lady Agnes waking up to hit us with the double sploot... isn't she just the cutest?

caught Cinna smirking at me as if saying “ha! this is mine now!”

Here's a picture of her mid-anointing after she got some tomato as a treat 🥹

My hedgehog (pebble) is a very active 13 weeks old hedgehog, he's pretty friendly and I obviously want to take a picture of him, but his energy outmatch mine and i can't even take a proper picture of him.

Do you guys have a trick to get a cute picture?

Despite the betrayal of been given a bath earlier! Worth not being able to move for ages ❤️

My vet suggested doing a preventative spay on my new hog (Gnocchi). She’s 6 months and has a very clean bill of health. I’ve seen a lot of mixed reviews on this since you can’t really do anything to stop hedgehogs from licking or biting the incision site. My vet is wonderful, and I want to do what is medically recommended. I did express my hesitation for the risk versus benefit, and they were very understanding. I declined at that visit, but did say I would consider it in the future. I’m leaning towards not doing it. However, I would be kicking myself if she were to develop a cancer that could have been prevented if I did decide to do the spay. Has anyone done a spay like this on here before? If so, how was the recovery?

Edit:
Thank you all so much for the advice and sharing your stories. I will probably end up doing the spay now that I have a better idea of recovery. I am leaning towards waiting until she’s closer to a year though, which my vet had let me know is fine! Gnocchi is extremely active now so maybe she’ll be a little calmer by then too🤞🏼

Long story short, around a month ago Poppy (who is nearly 7 and a half) started chewing a little strange and making a weird noise with her mouth that sounded like chewing kind of, but while her mouth was empty. After paying closer attention for a few days, I noticed there was a little bit of swelling starting on the upper part of her mouth/snout and I immediately suspected a tumor since that seems to be so common. I then took a video while she was drinking that gave a good view into her mouth, and I noticed a whiteish color mass behind her upper back tooth. This made me think it was possibly an abscess since she is getting old but that would actually be fixable, and I had a vet appointment scheduled at the next opening. The swelling got a bit worse before the vet, but it was nothing really that alarming. It was kind of hard to see into her mouth without sedating her and I didnt really want to do that just to look since she was so old, and from the videos he also agreed that it seemed likely to be an abscess from dental disease. So, we ended up scheduling a surgery to remove some teeth and drain the abscess and stuff since for that I figured the slight risks of sedating her would be worth it. However, after the surgery, it sadly did end up actually being a tumor so there wasn't really much that could be done that she would be able to handle. He removed a few of the nearby teeth and did what he could from the tumor, but other than that medicine doing whatever it can is the only real option left.

That was Friday morning. After the surgery, the swelling went down and she started looking normal from the outside, but you could still tell chewing was an issue. She was eating and drinking and walking around normally, which I was kind of surprised about, and even walked in her wheel for 10-15 seconds. However, last night (two and a half days after the surgery) the outside of her mouth/snout wasnt swelling at all like it was before, but her eye was bulging like 1/3 of the way out of her head and was surrounded by a red color, I guess either some trapped blood or her eyesocket. However surprisingly she could still close it, was still eating and drinking and acting mostly normal, and seemed to go to sleep and was doing good. This morning she woke up around her normal time, ate and drank like normal, but her eye was a little bit more bulging than last night I believe, closer to 40% maybe even 50% when she was chewing. I called the vet again just to double check and make sure there was nothing else we could do for this problem even though we couldnt do anything about the tumor, but sadly he said there wasnt really much to do about this either other than continuing the medicine and hope it helps with the swelling as much as it possibly can.

I don't want to put her down too early and question if she still had time left to enjoy in her life, but I also dont want to wait until her pain gets a lot worse or something even crazier than just her eye popping out or something happens and sit there feeling guilty for not doing it earlier. I was mostly just kind of wondering if anyone had been through anything similar and was able to talk about how quickly/slowly things happened to help me with the decision on when its eventually time. I know they hide their pain, but if shes still walking around and eating and drinking a good amount and on her own then I feel like it can't be time yet - and I obviously dont want to do it too soon. But her eye also seemed to go from perfectly normal to sticking 1/3 out of her head in like two hours, so I dont know if that means its just going to keep going super fast.

I had to say goodbye to our hedgehog after he got fast growing cancer last month. I have all of his materials: cage, liner, unopened food, blankets, wheels, hide huts, heat lamp, thermometer. Does anyone in the Dallas area need materials or know of a rescue/volunteer that does? I’d be happy to set them out for free or have you pick them up at my husbands office in Dallas.

Background information: Izzy had been diagnosed with a uterine tumour when we got her ultrasound done in mid-late September. She would bleed from that area because of it. Everything looked fine in the scan and the tumour was small, so we booked a hysterectomy at the earliest date we could on October 29th.
Saturday night at 11PM we noticed Izzy was extremely cold and yellow. She couldn’t wobble a few steps without lying down from exhaustion, as well as spiking up every few minutes in pain. Whenever she walked she’d scoot as if she were in pain from her uterine tumour. We kept her as warm as we could as we drove down to a 24/7 emergency vet.
We got there at 12AM where her temperature was taken and was at 33.4°C, an abnormal body temperature so they put her in an incubator for 5 hours. They checked again and her temperature was at 32°C, she was not getting any warmer. They put her back in with warm packs and raised the temperature, yet again at 10AM on Sunday, she was at 33.8°C. That vet was not as specialized in exotics, so they called her main vet to see if they could get one of their exotics team in so we could transfer Izzy over and she can be taken care of.
We then transferred her over to her main vet where someone from the exotic team took over and she has been there since; being incubated at a higher temperature, given pain medication and subcutaneous fluids, as well as being checked on regularly over a 24 hour time span.
We checked in again this morning of Monday, where they said her temperature raised to over 34.5°C, but then dropped back down when the temperature was lowered just slightly in the incubator, which indicates she cannot hold her temperature on her own. They also said she may be suffering from liver failure which would indicate through the yellowness and lethargy.
The vet discussed with us later on in the day about her breathing becoming irregular and her condition getting no better, how sedation would be lethal for her at this point if we wanted to continue with the hysterectomy that could be causing her the pain. We asked if there is anything they could do about liver failure, but as she is at the point she is now, there is not. She deserves to rest instead of being poked and prodded with a bunch of tests that would just state the known about her having liver failure and possibly a cancerous tumour.
We’ll be driving down and saying goodbye to her as they will humanely euthanize her. I will give her wormies before as it’s her favourite treat in the whole world and have her favourite toys.
I love you Izzy, my sweet angel. 🦔❤️

He is Kiko, he has like 5 months and i bought him from a petshop. He was very skinny and upset and it s “cage” was totaly a mess. I am really happy because i bought him and he looks happy now. He S pretty shy and angry sometimes but i hope we ll become friends 🥰❤️

Biiiig stretch

i just bought miki a new food it is from kitchen flavour for beauty cat the blue one and i think it is safe to say she loving itt the kibble is much more smaller than her old one so she having much more easier time to chew it

Hogs still coming

This is just one video, and she was acting normal before hand. I took her out to hold her and let her run around and now that's shes back in her cage she's acting so weird. She's weirdly active and digging a lot, while pacing and going into herself. Not just that but she's being a big clumsy too? I'm so worried, but I don't know if it's me overthinking it.

My friend has been stopping by to feed Fritter while my family is on vacation, I think he’s stressing her out more than the other way 😭

He doesn’t like it when other people feed him, so he’s been resistant to come out and eat, but he did eat a little bit today. I told her how my family gets him to eat when I’m not there so she can try to convince him to come out, but we’ll see how that goes 😓

My guess is that by tomorrow he’ll be over it and chowing down like he usually does.

Poor guy ☹️ this is the longest I’ve been away from him. But he’s clearly been playing with his toys and moving around, just not a fan of strangers providing him food.

He’s just kinda silly… he climbed fully into his food dish a bit ago to drink water from his other dish, there isn’t a lot going on in his head

This is NOT a request for a diagnosis!

Hello everyone, Today is a day I have long been dreading. I was cleaning my sweet girl's cage and I took a good look at her in her carrier and saw quite a large sized tumor by her hind left leg. She's about 4 1/2 years old and otherwise has never been sick. She has still been eating fine and doing all the things she normally does so I didn't notice it, plus she isn't the friendly sort so I'm not easily able to pick her up and examine her regularly for such things so I'm glad I noticed it.

Luckily, I have an exotic vet I take her to for nail trims and money isn't an issue if she needs care, thank goodness. My concern/question for all of you that have experienced tumors and surgeries is what the after care is like. Because since she isn't a fan of being picked up she balls and will certainly stay balled until I put her down. So if I have to give her something she has to be given orally in a syringe, I have no idea how on earth I am going to do that (assuming a surgery is to be had of course). Or even if it's something topical, with a possible wound there and how she likes to ball that just raised even more questions. I thought if someone could give me some info it might calm me at least a little before I can get her over to the vet (which is closed atm because it's Sunday). Thank you in advance for your help.