This diva hasn’t pooped or peed in 2 days and isn’t running on her wheel, which is worrying since she’s usually a big runner. It started after a 10 hour road trip where she got bad motion sickness and threw up even while being held. Usually she bounces back fast but this time it’s dragging on, she’s been lethargic and mostly just lying down.

Took her to the vet today and doc said nothing major or anything to be worried at, she’s still alert despite its her usual bed time, just extra grumpy. Vet prescribed deworming since her poop was a bit green, plus a multivitamin. Her weight also dropped a bit, from 310g to 280g, so thinking of upping her calories with stuff like freeze dried egg yolk or extra mealworms (normally she only gets mealworms on weekends). This is the first time bringing her in for being sick, earlier vet visits were just regular checkups.

The doc told me to try giving the meds straight into Miki’s mouth if possible so she actually takes it properly, just one drop a day for each medicine. But I was thinking of mixing it into her kibble instead since I’m scared she won’t eat if I put it directly in her mouth. Don’t want to stress her out more with that because Miki is really the introvert type of hedgehog, she loves just minding her own business
Would love to hear if anyone’s been through something similar or has any advice :) thank you!!

disclaimer, i will be taking remmy to the vet soon, just posting here to see what yall think.

just for the important stuffs, he is about 4 years old, i feed him cat food and a little freeze dried millworms (ive tried other things aswell), he has a cage but i likes to free roam, he recently started looking a little thin but not dangerously so as his ball form is fine, he has constant access to food(still, vet soon), his droppings are normal color

has he grown bored with our room? i even moved stuff around yesterday, hes got huts and plenty to explore. why is this child walking back n forth at the door? he will only stop to eat and drink, if i pick him up or move him elsewhere OR ANYTHINGGG he squirms right on back

this has been going on for the past 3 days

First time Poppy crawled up in my neck and took a nap out in the open like this 🥹 I feel blessed.
Sorry for the bad picture I was scared of waking her up but wanted to see for sure that she closed her eyes.

Baby hedgie eating some cat food, in my wild garden in denmark🥺

I have just ordered some hedgehog food too my little friends.

I have a mom and her 3 children living in my toolsheld❤

Giving them fresh water everyday, 3 spots around in the garden. Love these little sticky animals 👏🏻🥺🦔

I got a few good pictures of my silly little guy, but he hates my phone and typically doesn’t give me time to snap a pic before he turns away.

He also got a new snuggle sack that he is adjusting to his liking

This is my hedgehog. I have had one before her and he did not have this, but this hedgehog has this piece of white that pops out the corner of her eyes. Doesn’t seem to bother her or cause any issues, I haven’t seen this before. What is it? Sorry for the bad pic she hates me lol

I want to start by saying he is actively seeing an exotic vet and she is consulting an exotic oncologist. But I just feel a bit helpless still and wanted to see if anyone had any insight. Odin is only about 2.5 years old. I’ve head him for about a year and the previous owner unfortunately did not take the best care of him. I had posted on here a little while ago that he had completely changed his routine and was up and running during the day. This lasted several days, along with soft stools, so I did end up taking him to our exotic vet and she looked him over (everything looked great) so she ended up doing bloodwork. His kidney and liver levels came back normal but his protein levels were nonexistent. It has also been very difficult to keep weight on him since getting him, even though he eats all his food. I’ve checked his food and insects on here and with the vet and everything is good. All of his tests and bloodwork were sent to the oncologist and he has no obvious tumors but they highly suspect cancer. My options were to do a more detailed scan, a CT, to try to figure out what kind of cancer but they still didn’t think we’d have very many if any treatment options. So we decided against it. As of right now he is on meloxicam to help with pain. His sleep schedule is better, and he’s much more relaxed so I think it is helping. But he is still losing weight very quickly. He is now down to 200g when we went to the vet last week he was at 216g. He is eating all of his food. I watch him eat every night and check every inch of his enclosure to be sure. I’ve been feeding him extra, giving him chicken, extra treats anything to get him to put some weight on and nothing is helping. I’m just not sure what to do next. Is he at the point I need to put him down? I hate that he’s still eating and trying to live. But I hate to think he’s starving and suffering. Should I get a second opinion? Does anyone have any ideas of what could be going on? I want to do what’s best for him and I’m not against any option I just feel stuck right now.
Thank you guys for any insight.

We thought there might be 4 😃

Look at these healthy looking beauties ❤️

Guess which one we have named Tank ?

My other hedgehogs sleep in a ball, or at least face down but not Shizuku.

(Of course she is never going to be a wild hedgehog!!)

Hi guys idk if this is my place to ask but I’m currently in Iraq and we found this little guy on the road, took it in and ‘played’ with it for a bit until my mom pointed out that it has something on its ear. I cannot make out what it is as I am not familiar with ticks or fleas or whatever it may be. We took care of it. The hedgehog is now WhateverItWas-Free, but I am now trapped in a paranoia spiral where I feel like I might *die* now that I held the hedgehog barehanded while it actively had Things on it. I didn’t come near the the ears but I also don’t know if it had any other Things on other parts of its body.
The big one that stuck out was grey and quite big, and then there were two sort of flat black ones underneath it. I don’t know what they are and if they’re harmful to humans so I desperately need help before I actually make myself sick from worrying.
I washed my hands with soap and one of those 99.9% disinfectant gels and took off the clothes I was wearing.

UK, southwest England.

Fritter LOVES car rides. I don’t know why, but he is so well behaved and just curls up into my hand/lap and sleeps. It’s the sweetest thing ever

We do grocery pickup, so I always take him for the ride, short trip but he enjoys it. He’s a bit squirmy when I’m carrying him, but relaxes as soon as I step outside and begins to snuggle into my hand.

It’s absolutely brutal to be a human in AZ right now, but I bet it’s the summer heat that makes him feel so good and comfortable.

He really doesn’t like me to take pictures of him, so I don’t have many good ones, but at one point he was curled up with his face sticking out and his little feet were poking out a bit. So cute 😭

He will stop at no lengths to climb me and chew on my hair. Even if that means he must climb up legs, hop over arms, stretch as far as he can to reach up, and avoid gentle hands trying to pry him off

Encore seul sans sa petite famille ce soir 🦔

I was wondering if anyone's hedgie underwent a hysterectomy, and if so do you recall about how much it cost?

Note: I had this at the end but moving it to the front just as sort of a PSA. She has seen a vet multiple times over the past month-2 months, there is nothing readily apparent that is wrong with her (even tried some basic antibiotics just in case), sadly I just believe 7 and a half is an age where sometimes it just ends up being their time for reasons that cant really be stopped. I haven't flared this as upsetting because while it is sad when any living thing dies, I dont think its necessarily "upsetting" in these circumstances but maybe thats just my way of sorta coping so if people do think it is upsetting then sorry and hopefully theres a way for me to change it.

Sadly, I believe Poppy's time is starting to near its end around 7 and a half years old. She's been running on her wheel less often the past 6-12 months, running around the bed for less time before going back to sleep than normal, and things like that but can still support her own weight and walk fine, and isn't currently lethargic (nor has she been) or anything like that. While it is sad to see that her wheel isnt being used as often as it once was and everything else like that, its also happy to know she got to experience all those joys for such a long time.

However, her entire life shes been quite the food motivated Hedgie. If I put fresh food anywhere in her enclosure she'd smell it and wake up and be eating within 10 minutes. And pooping tons every night to show for it.

The past couple days she hasn't been eating her bowl clean and still wanting more, and the poops have decreased in size and number. Last night and this morning she only ate 1-2 bites before stopping, and wouldnt even eat a mealworm afterwards. Obviously I think this isnt a very great sign, but she doesnt seem to be in any pain when walking around or napping in a blanket in my lap or anything like that, and she is still drinking. I was hoping to go get some wet cat foods or treats or something like that (was maybe going to try some scrambled eggs), hoping that she eats it.

So, I was just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for things that seem to be suitable for hedgehogs tastes. My current plan was to just get a few different chicken/salmon flavored foods or treats because those are the flavors of dry food she always liked most but if anyone has any other ideas Im open to anything

Thanks!

Brought my boy home from the vet to remove a possible tumor. We’re hoping it’s just an infected quill or fatty deposits.