Hedgehogs treat wild animals. Upon purchase of a hedgehog it is necessary to know that he can be the carrier of dangerous diseases. It is better to buy domestic hedgehogs which are bred by experts. Additional inspection will reveal, your hedgehog is sick or healthy.
Before getting at home a hedgehog, it is necessary to realize that a hedgehog — a wild animal. It cannot be turned into a domestic kitty who will be tender. This animal will go on need where to it will take in head.
Features of leaving Hedgehogs it is night beings therefore in the afternoon you will hardly see it, and at night it will become real "shumogenerator". Their pads are arranged so that when walking on a plain surface of a floor, they publish the footfall interfaced to a gnash of claws. Late fall hedgehogs fall into hibernation. They at first become sluggish and leave only when get hungry. During this period they suit themselves a nest. As construction materials for this purpose serves various garbage. There can be socks, the cartridge from the tape recorder, threads, pieces of the newspaper. Important during this period not to disturb an animal not to break his preparation for sleeping. If you suddenly found a nest, do not awake a hedgehog. The woken hedgehog is an unprotected and vulnerable animal who can easily ache and die. The vital territory has to be brought closer to the native habitat. It is better that it was the open-air cage or a spacious cage with a large amount of construction material. With the onset of cold weather when the hedgehog falls asleep, it is possible to move it in the room more warmly, but not so that he woke up.
Feeding
In food the hedgehogs are not choosy at all, they eat everything that is eaten by the person. In nature hedgehogs are quite gluttonous. In summer in one day, the hedgehog can eat up to 50 may-bugs. It is possible to give a boiled liver, but in the small portions. It is a little milk, boiled meat and fish will also be to the taste to a hedgehog. Do not give to a hedgehog of synthetic and store products, such as sausages, sausage and smoked products at all. If in the house there are a cat and a dog, then hedgehogs like to eat a dry feed at them from a bowl. It is not necessary to allow them to do it. It is possible to give: cottage cheese, apples, bread crumbled in milk. As an excellent forage for a hedgehog serve dried insects. It is periodically possible to indulge your pet flour hearts which can be bought in poultry markets or in departments for fishing. It is possible to catch various bugs and grasshoppers in the summer, this food will be to the taste to your animal. Over time hedgehogs get used to new food and do not feel the need for another. The most important – if to you was ceased to want to have a hedgehog in the house, then it is possible to attach it in other family. If you picked up it in the forest recently, then try to release it in the same place. If the hedgehog was born in bondage or for a long time at you, under no circumstances do not release him in the wild nature, he will die.