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omelette
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Re:dry ears - 2008/02/16 16:03you could try giving your hedgie a bath with aveeno bath powder or try vitamin e or olive oil. rub a little on his/her ears. that is if his/her skin is also dry. otherwise, i've heard of people just rubbing a little olive oil directly onto the skin.Lisa My Heart Belongs to: Teddy, Sugar, Sapphie, Fudge, Archie, Chuckie - The Yorkies Emery (Black), Wendy (Siamese Mix), Echo (Tabby) - Cats Omelette - Hedgehog Jack - Guinea Pig Artex - Hamster Lesley - Hermit Crab
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Re:dry ears - 2008/02/16 16:46Other options would be bag balm on the ears, or cocoa butter works great too. Stasi Terrapin Hedgehogs Joppa, MD www.terrapinhedgehogs.com
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Re:dry ears - 2008/02/21 08:26Definately don't use cocoa butter on the ears if your hedgehog is around other hedgehogs though! Cocoa butter is apparently VERY tasty, and the one time I oopsed and cocoa buttered ears in a group girl cage, there was MUCH chomping on ears immediately. I had to pull everyone out, give them all baths to get the cocoa butter off, and then put them back in the cage. :-P Becca
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Re:dry ears - 2008/02/21 11:17Stasi wrote: Other options would be bag balm on the ears, or cocoa butter works great too. I wonder if they have Bag Balm in England? LORI, SOUTHINGTON, CT Mom of: Chloe(dog), Mr.Toad(frog) and Hazel the hedgie!!
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stasi, i've never heard of bag balm. think you're right and that we don't get it england. What is it.
Funny, in my reply yesterday I kind of went into what Bag Balm was and ended up deleting it. I thought it was too wordy. Oh well. It is an ointment made for the teats and udders of milk cows(originally) it keeps them from chapping and cracking . so I guess the farmers kind of started using it on their own skin and it got handed down thru the ages.
My mom always had Bag Balm around. She is originally from Vermont.(Farm country)So I always kept it around. But when I was dating my husband he came over to my apartment and had to use the bathroom, when he came out he had a REAL strange expression on his face when he came out ( ) and he says "Lori, what in the HELL is Bag Balm????" It was hysterical! If you could have seen the expression on his face.
To this day my hubby uses it on his hands in the winter, you know once the shock of it wore off....LORI, SOUTHINGTON, CT Mom of: Chloe(dog), Mr.Toad(frog) and Hazel the hedgie!!
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My mom always had Bag Balm around. She is originally from Vermont.(Farm country)So I always kept it around. But when I was dating my husband he came over to my apartment and had to use the bathroom, when he came out he had a REAL strange expression on his face when he came out ( ) and he says "Lori, what in the HELL is Bag Balm????" It was hysterical! If you could have seen the expression on his face.
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Re:dry ears - 2008/02/22 11:27OMG!!That's so funny!I can't even imagine what your Mom had flash thru her mind until it registered!! I was just thinking that if Bag Balm was called udder cream or something it probably wouldn't have gotten the same reaction, sumthin' about the term 'bag' just brings different ideas to a guys mind.....LORI, SOUTHINGTON, CT Mom of: Chloe(dog), Mr.Toad(frog) and Hazel the hedgie!!
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You may have something similar in the UK though.
) and he says "Lori, what in the HELL is Bag Balm????" It was hysterical! If you could have seen the expression on his face.
