I've fallen in love with hedgehogs... or at least one in particular-- our hedgehog, China. She's prickly and a bit moody but has quite an amusing little personality.
Look at her go!
China recently got an addition on to her cage (okay, okay... so the addition has been there for almost a month but the angle of the ramp to the upper section was too steep for her to climb without some form of tread-- figured out a solution and now she can explore. Shouldn't have found it as amusing as we did when we first put her on the upper level and she slid down the ramp).
Hedgehogs have very poor vision and, if there are no railings or safeguards, they will walk right over the edge of the surface they're on. The platform that was added to her cage had about a two inch lip that she could not easily walk over. Thought it was perfect and felt better that she'd have more space to romp and well... do all things hedgehogs in captivity like to do...
Once the tread was added, we woke her up and placed her on the upper level.
She sniffed around a bit and scurried down the ramp straight to her wheel. Ran for a bit, ventured up the ramp... and then... well...
....yeah... she jumped. Ran on her wheel, ran up the ramp and jumped over the edge again. (It's about a 1' drop... scary to witness, but she's unharmed-- and actually tried to do it again)
We now have a barrier that extends to the top of the cage so there will be no possibility for hedgehog suicide in the future....
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