Hedgehog eared at home

Jerzy, unlike most other wildanimals, adapt easily enough to a life in a captivity and quickly get used to people. This animal can be purchased at a pet store, and it will be specially grown for living at home hedgehog. If you are in the woods chasing an ordinary hedgehog and then trying to accustom it to an apartment, it's unlikely that your efforts will succeed - the hedgehog will not be able to get used to other conditions.

Decorative hedgehog - manual, sociable and inquisitive, he is not afraid of people. Animal will be happy to sit with you onlap while you watch TV. But be prepared for the fact that the hedgehog is a night beast, so in the dark, he will actively explore everything that is around. In the room, a long-eared hedgehog usually does not enter into hibernation in winter - only occasionally it refuses food for a few days with a sharp cooling.

Care for this animal is not at all complicated, but if you decide to have a hedgehog at home, thenyou should know a few important points. The first thing to think about is a house for a hedgehog. It can be a spacious box or cage with a rectangular (270x80 cm) or square (120x120 cm) base. The height of the sides - the higher, the better. It is better not to let the hedgehog self-study an apartment unattended, because on its way - many dangers. The animal can get confused in the wires, climb into a small gap and get stuck there, get hurt on some object.

You can lay straw or sawdust in a cage, it is better not to use newspapers as a bedding - Typographic paint can harm the animal. In the cage there should be plastic bowls with food and a drinker. Cleaning excrement should be done every morning, a bowl - thoroughly washed and rinsed with hot water. In all children's books the hedgehog is painted with a mushroom or an apple, pricked into prickles. Maybe he really likes to wear them on himself, but, like food, he does not use them. You will be surprised, but the hedgehog is a predatory animal.

The diet of the hedgehog is made up almost all small animals: insects (May beetles, ground beetles, dung beetles),larvae, mice, earthworms, caterpillars, slugs, snails, chicks, frogs, snakes, eggs. In captivity, one should try to feed the pet with the food habitual for it. You can offer worms - bloodworm, hamaris, tubule, as well as chickens and mice. Berries and pieces of fruit can also be given, but there are hedgehogs will be less willing. Do not give up seeds, vegetables, soups, raw meat.

At home hedgehogs can be given boiled liver and fish Is a very valuable food. Fish should be unsalted and quality. It is very useful for hedgehogs to give a mixture that consists of grated carrots and crushed breadcrumbs, with the addition of finely chopped, hard boiled eggs or non-acidic, low-fat cottage cheese. Milk in hedgehogs causes digestion disorders, therefore, contrary to the prevailing opinion, milk can not be given to a hedgehog.

Washing your pet is often not recommended - once in 3 months. "Human" hygiene means is better notuse, buy a special shampoo in the pet store. After bathing, you need to wipe the animal dry, and do not let it go on the floor - so as not to catch a cold. On their own hedgehogs - singles. And if you are going to keep a few animals at home, then they should be placed in different cells.