Hedgehogs are surprising beings. Thanks to the quiet temper interesting to appearance and ridiculous "snorting" the hedgehogs often become heroes of fairy tales, animated films, at the same time, as a rule, they always act as positive characters. Some venture to get this animal of the house, wild by the nature.
Features of keeping of hedgehogs
Hedgehogs can become wonderful pets. Of course, you should not bring hedgehogs from the wood and to cage them. First, the improbable stress for a wild animal, secondly, arises danger to get a set of dangerous diseases from a small animal.
Decorative hedgehogs are on sale, for example, African dwarfish who are grown up by experienced manufacturers, it is better to take a hedgehog from them.
For the maintenance of the house of a hedgehog you need a cage not less than 40 quarter in size see Paule in a cage surely has to be smooth or soft, about a trellised floor the hedgehogs can wound gentle pads. In the place where hedgehogs contain, there should not be drafts and direct sunshine. The cage has to be surely equipped with a feeding trough, a drinking bowl, a lodge and a running wheel – the hedgehog will run in him at night when in the wild nature it comes for hunting. Feed hedgehogs with special dry feeds and canned food from insects – they can be got in pet-shops. It is possible to give sometimes pieces of fruit and fresh fodder insects. From time to time it is possible to offer a hedgehog wet kitten food.
Training and trainingMany experts note that on mental capacities the hedgehogs are quite primitive animals. They, for example, are sillier than mice. Nevertheless, elementary tricks and obedience of a hedgehog can quite train.
You can create various "obstacle courses" from make-shifts and display on them delicacies. So your hedgehog will study.
To begin to train a hedgehog follows from the fact that he has to get used to you and fall in love with you. For this purpose he needs to remember your smell and a voice. For a start it is possible to put your some thing in a cage, for example, a t-shirt. So the hedgehog will catch your smell, even when you are absent nearby, and then to you will be much more trustful. That the small animal got used to a voice, it is necessary to talk to him, at least on half an hour in day. It is good if at the same time only you feed him. Then the hedgehog will hear voices of other people, but will not be so located to them. If regularly to be engaged with the pet, soon he will learn the name and will begin to respond to it.
The clown-trainer Nikolay Yashukov constantly is engaged in training of hedgehogs. His hedgehogs are able to roll carts, to jump through obstacles and many other things.
In addition the trained hedgehog can execute primitive commands, "Stand" it seems and "To me". The Stand team of a small animal can train as follows: beckon to yourself a hedgehog with delicacy or the movement of hands, then tell: "To stand!" also block it a way, for example, the book. After the long trainings he will remember that needs to be made. Still it is possible to train a hedgehog in the teams "Curl Up!" and "Be Developed!". The main thing – at the same time not to frighten it at all, otherwise he will refuse to trust you. Saying teams, it is necessary to help it to be curtailed and be developed by careful movements of hands.