Hi, Snuzzy readers! From now on I’m going to be doing posts every Friday about my hedgehog, Max. Unless you hate him, then I’ll stop! It’s called “Max Cuteness” and it’s going to be a lot of fun!
Let me start off by telling you a little about Max. He was born in late 2008 and we got him in early 2009 at a pet store in Long Island. He was the only hedgehog they had there that would actually open up and play with people, and wasn’t just a spiky hissy ball. Having owned several spiky hissy balls in the past, I thought this was pretty unique.
In nature hedgehogs eat insects, in captivity they can eat “insectivore food” or you can order hedgehog food specifically made by breeders. You can also feed them low fat catfood or store-bought hedgehog food, but it’s not the best for them. Grains are less nutritious for hedgehogs but cheaper to produce, and are often slipped into store-bought hedgehog food in disproportionately large quantities. Max likes to eat, but he likes to exercise more. While moving, Max had to stay in a smaller cage for a while, and he couldn’t use his wheel. Since then he’s gotten kind of fat.
But we got him a bigger cage and a new wheel and he’s working on shedding the pounds ounces!
Awww! He is so cute. Can you hold him or does he poke you?
How big is he?
I’m glad Max got a new wheel for his workouts. His butt barely fits inside his front door! I like the porthole on his house. He and it are both super adorable.
He is a cutie!
@Lancelot, hedgehogs, even the nicest ones, are almost always pokey when you take them out of their cage. Hedgehog emotion can basically be gauged by the angle of their face, if their forehead spikes slant foreword they’re upset (and the rest of their spikes are spiky) but if their forehead spikes are laid back, like in the second picture of him eating, they’re calm (and the rest of their spikes kind of feel like scaly fur). They have short fuses and are almost always little hisspots when you take them out of their cage, but Max will instantly calm down the second he can uncurl into my hand.
@Christine, he’s surprisingly squishy! He actually lost a bunch of weight by the time I took these pictures, and he could easily fit through the door when he’s fat. Kind of like an octopus, he can fit through any hole that’s as big as his head. But he’s slimming down by the minute.
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