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-RebelScum-
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6/17 7:11pm
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That was very informative. My book also says they have 2-3 incisors, 1 canine, 2-4 premolars, and 2 molar teeth on each half dental arch. Is this reliable?
Also, I've been seriously considering vegetarianism. What are your experiences with it?
Scummy
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Andalite-Bandit
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Ophelia will you make a cartoon paint image about Indiana The Hedgehog? Like those collage painty things you create sometimes?
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Ophelia, this Hubble image seems to reveal that at some point Indiana The Hedgehog was traveling in space and was in the vicinity of the Eagle Nebula. Your opinion of these antics?
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An update on the Scummy pet front, I've been doing a lot of research on a new small furry pet for a while now as I mentioned a few questions back. And while Indiana didn't convince me to get a hedgehog this thread turned me onto the possibility, and I'm really liking everything I've read. I won't be getting a pet for another six months or so as my old and sick dog doesn't need the added stress before it dies, but there's a good chance I may choose a hedgehog when that time comes. You're like a hedgehog prophet or something ophelia. 
Scummy
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Andalite-Bandit
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6/21 1:54pm
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Ophelia you have neglected the fans of Indiana The Hedgehog.
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ophelia
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6/21 2:35pm
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I am sorry, O Bandit of Andalites.  I have various excuses, but I'm sure you don't care, so I'll just skip them.
Andalite: I will meditate upon what kind of random Paint scrawling would best suit Indiana The Hedgehog.
Also: WHAT! And I thought he wasn't using his wheel much anymore because he was getting kinda old and tired. Turns out he's been taversing interstellar space instead. Naturally, I'm the last one to know. 
Scummy: You might want to check out information at the International Hedgehog Association's website. Unlike what the name suggests, it is not an international association of hedgehogs, but rather it is an association of people who like them.
They do have a section on adopting hedgehogs who are unwanted or mistreated, which is a kind thing to do, as well as cheaper than buying one. Taking care of an animal that's had bad experiences with people might not be the best choice for a first-time hedgehog owner, though. Something to weigh the pros and cons about.
I have never actually counted Indy's teeth, but the number you mention sounds about right. I do look at his teeth fairly often, though, since cancer of the mouth and gums is a common cause of death in older hedgehogs. If you catch it early, there's a better chance that it'll be treatable.
They are fun little creatures . . . at least in my opinion.  If you want to know lots of specifics about caring for hedgehogs, you might want to PM me . . . I think even the fan(s) of Indiana The Hedgehog might get bored of that sort of thing.
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ophie, I still want to play with and pet your hedgehog...
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::ignores the fact that everything sounds like innuendo when dp4m says it*::
I'm not sure he'd travel well, but I'd definitely bring him to visit JC'ers if any were in the area.
* Notice I did not say "coming from dp4m."
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Yes, I've been on that site. The site hedgehogcentral.com is also very cool, I'm toying with names right now. I think Sonic is kind of cliche, these are some names I'm considering:
Voltaire
Darwin
Judas
Descartes
Sigmund
Galileo
Machiavelli
Huxley
Also, my book further states that hedgehogs can survive falls from up to thirty feet if they are curled due to their spines acting as shock absorbers. Could you verify this, preferably on tape?
Scummy
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ophelia
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Those would all make excellent hedgehog names. My favorite hedgehog name is Velcro. I had a little hedgehog named Velcro, but he was a pet store baby who came home sick. The vet eventually identified 3 strains of bacteria living in his respiratory tract. He was the sweetest, most patient, most people-loving hedgehog I ever had, but he only lived 7 months.
I just don't have the heart to re-use "Velcro," even though I love it as a hedgehog name. It made everybody laugh when they heard it.
Also . . . No.
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what has been his greatest adventure?
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ophelia
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Hmm . . . to tell you the truth, for a creature named after Indiana Jones, he actually hasn't had a very adventurous life. His most impressive acts of derring-do were the ones that earned him his name--attempting super-hedgehog feats while trying to escape from his new home.
My previous hedgehogs had more adventures--partly because that was part of their personalities, and partly because I wasn't that smart of a hedgehog owner at first.
My first hedgehog was named Tiggy-Winkle, and she decided to climb into a baseboard heater one day. Then she got frightened, and curled into a ball--which of course made her too wide to squeeze back out. The more scared she got, the more impossible it was to remove her. I believe I had to take the heater apart to get her out. (Fortunately, it wasn't on.) Unlike Indiana, she was fully litter-trained, and could be trusted to wander around the house . . . sort of. The thing is, if I was distracted for an instant, she'd disappear, and then I'd panic, thinking that she was going to burrow under the couch cushions and someone would sit on her. I did once fall asleep with her lying on my stomach, and I woke up hours later, not knowing where she was, or if I'd suffocated her. (She was curled up in a ball next to me, like a cat.)
Velcro didn't have a long life to have adventures in, but he would ride on my shoulder for short periods, and he liked swimming laps in a bathtub that had about 3 inches of water in it.
Ironically, Indiana is not too fond of adventures--fumbling around on a keyboard is about as much as he wants to deal with. He likes such exciting things as taking baths, eating, and being carried around very gently.
Really, I should have named him Bilbo.
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Name one sponge.
Also, you really won't try ophelia? It's in the name of peer review and the scientific method!
. . . what about twenty feet?
Also, how hard was it to litter train your hedgehog, and how much freedom did you give her?
Scummy
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6/21 9:02pm
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I did not know a hedgehog can go about the house by itself! I thought a hedgehog stays inside a hedgehog aquarium tank.
Ophelia, how smart is a hedgehog compared to the following critters:
Monkey
Dog
Toad
Ant
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ophelia
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Date Posted:
6/21 9:28pm
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Indy fell about 18" once. He was mad.
You and I would probably be mad if we fell between 2 and 3 times our body length, too.
Also: Hogs On TV!!!
Edit: Yes, some hedgehogs roam their homes freely, the way cats and some ferrets do. Most of them can be completely litter trained, so they keep the place clean. Unfortunately, they can get lost, stuck, accidentally squashed, or trapped in areas that are too cold for them, which can be fatal. Hedgehogs try to hibernate when they're very cold, but they aren't very good at it. They tend to die instead.
A free-range hedgehog in a hog-proofed house is probably happiest. If that seems unrealistic, then a rabbit-cage sized home, plus some safe way to get out and run around, works out okay. Indy has a "playpen" that he can have more freedom of movement in. That's actually where he is in the "eating the Collected Works Of Shakespeare" picture.
He's ambivalent about it, however, even with toys in there . . . I think it bothers him that he doesn't have anyplace to burrow.
As for how smart hedgehogs are . . . they'll tell you in books that hedgehogs are primitive mammals with few folds in their cerebral cortexes, which renders them comparatively dumb.
Of course, anyone who has ever known a hedgehog knows that they only play at being dumb, so as to get others to underestimate them. This is only step one of their unfathomable plan.
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