Lemming Hedgehog - 2008/04/07 11:38Lychee decided to jump off the edge of the bed last night! Was just getting my hand to him to scoop him away from the edge and then he was gone. He’s fine as luckily it was where it met the wall and the narrow nature of the gap would have slowed him down some. We were just working out the best was to get him out but he decided he didn’t need air rescue and scaled the side of the bed to the top. I thought Hedgies were supposed to be inelegant climbers but he looked pretty adept.
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Re:Lemming Hedgehog - 2008/04/07 15:34Hedgies have bad eyesight, so he probobably didn't see the edge of the bed. Hedgies are good climbers, just not good at climbing DoWn...
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Re:Lemming Hedgehog - 2008/04/08 03:30Yes they seem to like the express route downwards. Have always been wary but the speed he set about his little gravitational experiment shocked us. It doesn’t help that now he’s decided to “mature” so has been acting a lot less active and is resistant to be stroked. I was really worried so kept picking him up, but something was poking out of his bellybutton … initially thought it was an injury in the low light of the room so started poking at him, poor little guy, he needs a DND sign for his alone moments , oh and a parachute for his disregard of edges !
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Re:Lemming Hedgehog - 2008/04/08 09:36LOL!!**Mommy of Tweetle the hedgehog!** ~Felicia :]
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Re:Lemming Hedgehog - 2008/04/08 17:20I read somewhere years ago, that hedgehogs have horrible depth perception and aren't great judges of distance so that's why they run off things and make those crazy jumps. If it's any consolation, hedgehogs tend to slow down as they mature, LOL!
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Re:Lemming Hedgehog - 2008/04/09 02:21From my limited experience I think the main problem is they don't look down!
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Re:Lemming Hedgehog - 2008/04/09 21:29Meralex wrote: From my limited experience I think the main problem is they don't look down!
HAHAHA
Yup that could be a problem.... reminds me of the movie Shaun of the Dead when they keep talking about some guy who said dos can't look up!
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Re:Lemming Hedgehog - 2008/04/10 09:29Meralex wrote: , poor little guy, he needs a DND sign for his alone moments
ROFLMAO!!!!!LORI, SOUTHINGTON, CT Mom of: Chloe(dog), Mr.Toad(frog) and Hazel the hedgie!!
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Re:Lemming Hedgehog - 2008/04/18 12:25poe, is scared of heights we put him on our living room table alot which is huge, he runs as fast as he can then stops looks over the side runs as fast as he can to the other side then looks and still cant get down my 6 year old was leaning agents it yesterday watching tv and there goes poe took off running climed up damons shoulder down his chest to the floor
hes scared of heights we think
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Re:Lemming Hedgehog - 2008/04/18 14:05Mine tries to jump off things all the time. The best thing about hedgehogs is they ball up instead of run so they are easy to protect. Just make a loud noise and then you prevent them from jumping before you can move them.
I also read that in the wild hedgehogs will often climb trees and then they can't get down so they ball up and drop and the force of the drop is cushioned by their spikes preventing them from getting hurt. It reminds me of a cat stuck in a tree. Some one call the fire department Becky Mother of Peanut the baby hedgehog
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Re:Lemming Hedgehog - 2008/04/24 16:07climb trees and then they can't get down so they ball up and drop and the force of the drop is cushioned by their spikes preventing them from getting hurt Thats so funny because I actually just read that in my College Physics book! It was talking about collisions and mentioned that exact fact!! haha
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… initially thought it was an injury in the low light of the room so started poking at him, poor little guy, he needs a DND sign for his alone moments
, oh and a parachute for his disregard of edges
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