ErynSMA
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Hedgie Depression! - 2008/04/21 23:01
Been a long time since I posted, but I came back to share a story.
I've had Butterscotch now since late October, and I've been very consistent about handling her/playing with her for at least 10 or 15 minutes a night, sometimes far more.
However I noticed that after a while, every time I picked her up, she'd always huff and puff and do her grumpy thing for most of the time. It was getting to the point of where I thought that I really must be doing something wrong or that she just didn't like being handled.
So last week I had to have surgery and couldn't be home. I left her in the care of my grandparents, who raised farm animals for years. Even my grandfather gets a little freaked out by Butterscotch in terms of holding her despite his experience with many different kinds of animals, but I knew he'd feed her and keep her watered and cared for.
Well, my grandmother called me about 4 days after the surgery and said that things didn't look so good, because Butterscotch wasn't moving around or eating a lot, which is really unusual. So I got my butt back there, and sure enough, almost no poop on the wheel, and almost a full food bowl!
I was worried up until I reached my hand in the cage. She bristled for a moment, so I knew at that point she was still alive. But the kicker is that she let me pick her up with her quills down. She was crazy after that, climbing all over me and everything.
She got a little huffy after about a half hour, but it's been two days now, and she's far less grumpy when I play with her, her food is being wolfed down, and her wheel is now again poop covered. Everything is as it should be!
I guess she missed me as much as I missed her, which I never would have thought possible. No way am I leaving her for four days again though!
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