WuIffi
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Hedgehog Very Huffy... - 2007/11/15 10:14
Hello, everyone.
I'm having a problem.
I've had my hedgehog since the 15th of September. I was living in an apartment at that time, which I moved out of around the end of October unexpectedly. My hedgehog, her name is Dazi, has just gotten used to the place.
Now, she was from Lethbridge, Alberta. MUCH warmer than where I had to move back to, Fort McMurray, Alberta, a good 12 hours north. Much colder, outside anyway. From what I've noticed, the temperature of her cage and the room she's in is comfortably warm.
Anyways, what she's doing is the moment I pick her up, she's in a ball and won't come out. It doesn't matter what I do. I can't tell if she's hurt or sick or anything, but I've already taken her to a vet and he said physically she was fine.
My house she's now in has four new people she doesn't know, and three cats. The cats don't bother her but the smell is there, so I can see if maybe that's stressing her out. The new people I can see stressing her out too, but they aren't in the room often, so I can't see that being much of a factor unless they were handling her on a regular basis. I'm the only one who does that, and before this move and even a few days after, she was perfectly fine with me.
I have changed the type of bedding I use for her recently, but that was over a week ago. Could it still be affecting her? And I gave her her first bath because she had made a big mess of herself in the ball I put her in so she can roam... she seems to like to use it as a portable potty. Could that have made her angry with me, angry enough to be huffy and refusing to uncurl for me in over two weeks? She started doing this around October 31st or November 1st, but she was fine before that and we had moved back the 26th of October.
Please help. I would like to know if there's anything I can do to help her trust me again, I don't know what to do. I hope that's enough information.
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