For a hedgehog the peculiar leaving different from usual keeping of other animals is required. A hedgehog - a night animal, and you should remember it before bringing to himself such pet. Prepare for footfall of small pads which can interrupt your sleep.
It is required to you
- - cage or open-air cage;
- - laying;
- - forage.
Instruction
1. Place the new pet in a spacious cage or the open-air cage. In a cage surely there has to be a lodge where the hedgehog could hide and have a rest. This shelter needs to be equipped that it was convenient to an animal. Lay in straw or hay, the laying has to be soft and cozy.
2. Create in the room in which there is a cage with a hedgehog, comfortable conditions for a small animal. It should not be indoors cold or too hot, try to maintain normal air temperature. Daily clean a cage to prevent emergence of an unpleasant smell.
3. Wash a cage and a pallet boiled water to get rid of harmful pathogenic bacteria. Regularly clean the pet's toilet and to get rid of a smell, use a special deodorant for cats. Completely change an old laying for new when it becomes shabby. Drinking bowls and feeding troughs need also to be washed with hot water regularly.
4. Except straw and hay include a dry camomile in structure of a laying. The smell of this plant will frighten off blood-sicking parasites. You support only one hedgehog in one cage or the open-air cage. These animals do not live groups therefore small animals will battle for the territory.
5. If you have several animals, keep pets in different open-air cages or cages. The dwelling of a hedgehog can be established on the balcony. In that case it is impossible to remove for the winter a cage to the warm room, otherwise the pet will not fall into hibernation. It will badly affect his health, the small animal can die in the middle of the summer of a stress.
6. It is not necessary to let out for a long time a hedgehog from a cage, he can spoil some of your things. If you have an opportunity, place the pet in the open-air cage outdoors, there to it will be much more spacious and is cozier. Besides, it is the habitat for an animal, and you will not need to equip his dwelling specially.
7. Plant several trees, bushes and flowers. From time to time you nevertheless should clean a hole, but it needs to be done less than in a cage. You need also to feed well the pet, never leave him hungry.
8. You feed a hedgehog with meat, flour hearts, greens and white loaf. It is possible to give to drink to these small animals clear water and fresh milk. It is desirable that milk was house and had no smell of chemicals.