Walking on the wood, it is quite often possible to meet a small gray small animal who quietly runs on the affairs, having pressed prickles to a body. This is our old acquaintance - a hedgehog ordinary. It is simple to catch it, the small animal too hopes for the needles and does not resist unless pofyrkat.
Do not take a hedgehog!
So invitingly, having caught a hedgehog, to take him home. And if with you children, then they precisely persuade, and a poor small animal, having left the native habitual wood, will go to the city apartment which is not suitable for its accommodation at all.
Before making up the mind to such serious step, it is necessary to remember: animal, whether house whether wild, is not a toy. The person takes full responsibility for him, and has to provide the living conditions which are brought closer to natural.
Hedgehog not a cat, in the apartment to him it will be bad. The animal it leads a nocturnalism so, having got a hedgehog, be ready that his activity will begin when you are going to sleep. He will go, brattle pads, to rustle in corners, to climb on heights, to fall from them.
Hedgehogs are carriers of a number of serious diseases - lentospiroz, salmonellosis and the most dangerous - rage. Besides, at hedgehogs there are always fleas, ticks. They hide between needles, and the small animal is present no opportunity to get rid of them. Having got to the warm apartment, fleas willingly will change the owner.
So it is necessary to think well before inviting such inconvenient guest from whom, by the way, there is no pleasure to the house - he does not jump to you on knees, does not purr, does not dance on hinder legs, does not bring a ball in teeth.
Hedgehog in house conditions
But there are cases when it is necessary to take home a hedgehog. For example, if the animal is wounded or got to adverse conditions. Then, of course, it is necessary to come to the rescue.
How to arrange a hedgehog
Houses the hedgehog needs to define a shelter. It is the best of all if it is a box with quite high walls. That the small animal did not get through them, it is necessary to make zakraina. From time to time the animal needs to be let out to run about to warm up. In the nature the hedgehogs move much in search of food so the small animal will feel the need for the movement.
What to feed a hedgehog with
At liberty the diet of a hedgehog is very different. He eats a great number of insects among whom there are even poisonous. Frogs, toads, the bird's eggs found on the earth, baby birds, large caterpillars, slugs, earthworms - here approximate food preferences of a prickly small animal. Mice he eats seldom, it is not so simple to catch them to him. Also the hedgehog sometimes eats berries and fruit.
If you hold a hedgehog of the house, it is possible to feed him with crude and boiled meat, chicken, to give cottage cheese with crude egg, grated carrots. Ideally it is necessary to include in the daily menu of a hedgehog newborn (naked) mice, a flour worm. Willingly the hedgehog and a may-bug skhrumkat. And here the hedgehog should not milk. He, of course, will drink him, but then there will be problems with digestion. For the same reason it is not necessary to treat all met hedgehogs with milk.
Allow to go home him!
When your pet recovers, it is better to release him there where found. However, at the same time it is necessary to consider a condition of an animal, season, relief and what is the time the pet stayed at you. If too long, then it cannot already be released - it lost natural skills. In this case is better to present it to somebody who has a garden site. There and to lodge a hedgehog. By the way, for a garden kitchen garden a hedgehog the first assistant, in a day it destroys a lot of slugs and caterpillars.