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6/21 9:40pm
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You didn't answer my litter training question.  As for the falling 18", did you at least notice needle-on-ground cushioning action going on?
Also, I <3 that commercial.
EDIT: You edited in an answer and now my complaint seems silly, you fiend!
EDIT2: I read that hedgehogs are able climbers,can't he get out of his play pen? And what was the difficulty level of potty-training him?
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ophelia
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Umm, he was kind of squirming around and he rolled out of the crook of my arm and landed on the carpet. His spines stuck in the carpet in a very velcro-like fashion, and he complained loudly in hedgehog-speak.
Tiggy-Winkle was once handled by a particularly dim friend of mine, who managed to drop her about 5 feet onto a tile floor. She just kind of went "splat." She was really mad afterward, but didn't seem hurt at all.
Most hedgehogs litter-train just like cats do. You get a little baby hog, you wait until it goes #2, and you put the dropping in the litter. You can pick up its little paws and scratch in the litter a bit if you want to give it the idea that "this here ground's good diggin'." Like cats, most hedgehogs will naturally want to bury their waste, and they'll catch on almost immediately.
Both Tiggy-Winkle and Velcro were litter-trained as babies. Indiana just never caught on. I don't know why . . . maybe I used the wrong kind of litter? Maybe he's just like that? Anyway, he will "go" where he wants to, and I have to keep something under him most of the time.
A litter-trained hedgehog can run around more freely than a non-litter-trained one, but you can set up floor-protected "safe areas" for a non-litter-trained hedgie to explore. The playpen is kinda fancy . . . you could get the same effect by putting newspaper on the bathroom floor, shutting the door, and just sitting on the edge of the tub, watching the little critter run around. 
I have taken hedgehogs outside, but there are some risks there--eating grass with pesticides on it, for one, and getting lost for another. Also, some big dogs or other predators may try to attack them. I used to take the wire top off Tiggy-Winkle's cage and put it over her when we went outside. It kept off the hawks that liked flying around there. 
Edit: Hedgehogs can be good climbers--that's how Indiana got his name, actually. The playpen has vertical bars, though. Hedgehogs can climb up horizontal rungs, but they can't shinny up poles. If you're really worried, you can get these canvas things that fit over the top and the bottom of the pen. I just have one for the bottom, to keep my carpet clean. I could put one over the top if I thought I needed to, though.
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Thanks for the info ophelia.  I'm guessing that since you named him Indiana due to the epic maneuvers he employed trying to get out of his cage that he didn't have a name when you first brought him home? Or did you merely overwrite his old less boring name?
Will you play this song for Indiana? I'd like to know the results.
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Also, I know I have some sort of personality disorder in that I'm considering hedgehog names and other matters with the resident crazy hedgehog lady (that's a compliment, probably ) six months before I'm even shopping for one, I'm torn on the name because they're all so awesome.
Note: You don't actually have to read/answer this. I'm bored, and when I'm bored I make lists and expand on them!
Voltaire the Hedgehog: I could call him Volt for short, which also plays off the supersonic hedgehog jokes I'm sure hedgehog owners get a lot. Plus Voltaire was the man.
Darwin the Hedgehog: I'm a big Darwin fanboy, also Darwin wrote a little bit on hedgehogs, albeit his info was completely wrong! Unfortunately you really can't abbreviate it well, "Hello Dar!" just sounds stupid!
Judas the Hedgehog: While Judas doesn't really deserve that much respect, I always get the impression he never really had a choice in the betrayal and just gets too much hate. So while I wouldn't name a building after him or something, I think he deserves something. Granted my religious parents would probably exorcise the hedgie when I'm not looking if I named him that.
Descartes the Hedgehog: Come on, he and Bacon pretty much invented the scientific method, and I love me some scientific method.  Unfortunately, Descartes really doesn't role off the tongue well, and it's hard to abbreviate. I'm thinking about suffixing it on, so if I name him Voltaire his full name would be "Voltaire Descartes the Hedgehog." That would reek of awesome.  I'd of course not call him by Descartes, it'd be more of a middle name.
Sigmund the Hedgehog: Freud is awesome, I read a collection of his writings once and wanted to be a psychologist for like a year. Plus "Siggie the Hedgehog" is just neat, plus it opens up a whole new window of JCC siggie jokes since I have a manual signature.
Galileo the Hedgehog: Pros: Was a hoss as we in the South say.  Cons: ???.
Machiavelli the Hedgehog: Essentially The Prince is just about the most brilliant political book I've read, had a lot of super ideas. Unfortunately, "Mac the Hedgehog" sounds lame and there is no way I'm going to call him Machiavelli every time I address him.
Huxley the Hedgehog: "Darwin's Bulldog" is a more subtle evolution reference, and evolution is my big passion so ol' Tom Huxley has some significance to me. Plus, "Hux the Hedgehog" has a nice ring to it when I'm feeling phonetically lazy!
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ophelia posted:
A free-range hedgehog in a hog-proofed house is probably happiest.
How does one go about hog-proofing a house?
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ophelia
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6/22 7:54am
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Jeffro--lol.
Actually, naming a hedgehog after a cactus wouldn't be a bad idea. "Saguaro" is kind of a cool-sounding name, even if saguaro cacti look absolutely nothing like hedgehogs.
Scummy: I like Volt, Hux, and Siggy . . . Volt would be an especially good name for a speedy hedgehog. And actually, looking into hedgehog ownership 6 months before you get one is not a bad idea at all. For one thing, they're kinda expensive. They also have a lot of eccentric needs, and they have a breeding season and a "meh" season. You'll have the largest selection of responsibly-bred babies in the spring and early summer. (Pet mills can just churn the critters out all year, but they often end up sickly, like my poor Velcro.) Looking at a time like next March is not a bad idea at all.
Indy did not have a name when I got him. He was designated as "green," due to the little green spot of paint they'd put on his quills so they could tell him apart from his littermates. (He still has a bit of green on one quill.)
I did find some old baby pictures of him . . . here he's just a few weeks old, still living at the breeders':
Aaand the Sonic song was a "no." He doesn't like loud or harsh noises like that. He did like this song though, which I downloaded the other day: Song For Judy And Bridget. I think he liked the slow beat and soft sound of it. At any rate, he got all calm and quiet when I was playing it.
d-g: Good question. Basically you need to remove anything they could get stuck in or behind. It helps to either have few things to hide under or a very brave hedgehog--'cause once they see those feet clomping toward them, they're likely to dive under the couch, and getting them out again could be a huge hassle.
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I imagine.
Does Indy respond to his name, or just ignore you unless you have food?
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Thanks opheila.
Out of curiosity, just how many Sonic the Hedgehog jokes/references do you actually get from people when they find out you own a hedgehog? Because I've been making them left and right, but I've noticed on pretty much every hedgehog video/whatever I've seen that has comments someone has to say "SONIC LOLOLOLOL" every few posts or so.
EDIT: On the Sonic note by the way, I was reading an old article that mentioned hedgehog breeding and all the potential colors, and it said that breeders were currently on black and red hedgehogs, and blue.
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Ophelia, on Halloween would you consider dying Indiana the Hedgehog blue and putting little red shoes on his feet and convincing him to walk upright?
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How would you "convince" a hedgehog to walk upright, anyway? 
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Has Indiana found the Chaos Emeralds?
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Ophelia is it possible for a hedgehog to speak, like a parrot or a goldfish?
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Is Indiana an interdimensional being?
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darth_grievous1: He doesn't come when I call him, no . . . I do have a kind of nauseating "hedgehog voice" that he will respond to, though. It's pretty much your standard nauseating pet voice. "Hello, baby. Hello, sugar. Awwwwww, did I wake you up? Are you a sleepy baby?" etc. 
When I talk like that, he knows I'm talking to him.
Scummy: Really, most people are too stunned by the idea of having a hedgehog in the house to connect him with the videogame. A lot of them want to know if he's like a porcupine, where the quills will come out in your skin. The only people who really ask about Sonic are young kids, who mostly want to know if hedgehogs can really do the things that Sonic does. (Pretty much . . . no.)
Andalite: Umm, I don't think you can dye a hedgehog blue. His belly hair maybe, but not the quills. I think you'd have to spraypaint him. This would probably not be a good idea. Also, his feet are the size of largish pencil erasers. I don't know what size that is in shoes.
Scummy again: Put one in water, and let them rest their front feet on your fingers. Voila! Standing hedgehog.
BF2001: Possibly. Sometimes I suspect that he has, and that he doesn't want to share their power with me. But whenever I ask, he just ignores me.
Andalite again: Hedgehogs do not speak as well as parrots, however their powers of speech are superior to those of goldfish.
Whitey: Again, possibly. I have a piece of paper that identifies him as the offspring of "Carly" and "Xavier," and that says he was born on 9/13/04. The full identities of his parents are not revealed, however, and the form of the date may be misleading. Perhaps he was born on the 4th day of the 13th month in the 9th year of the Reign of Andalite. Even if it's all accurate, interdimensional information is terribly hard to interpret. So it's all very difficult to say.
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If all three of your hedgehogs were to fight each other in their respective primes who would win?
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