Sometimes when they “bite” they are just nibbling out of curiosity, so if they bite you don’t assume they hate you, it’s common to have a taster hedgie!
There is something about her energy! I love it!!! She isn’t crazy, but she isn’t meh. I love her energy and the way she speaks! Thank you for all this wonderful info!
Thanks for all of these videos, I'm bonding with my Draco right now and he's very shy because I adopted him from a neglectful situation, so these videos really help.
How did it ended up working out for you? I was just thinking about adopting one that's two years old but I have concerns about this/bonding in general.
@@tina_kovacova It was amazing, he turned out to be the bestest boy. Sadly he got wobbly hedgehog syndrome last year and had to be put down, but I wouldn't change taking him in for anything ❤
I got a hedgehog from a “mysterious” breeder (BIG MISTAKE) he licks me and then bites me, quite hard....I keep trying to bond with him but I just can’t..
Another tip, one time got bit by my hedgehog, and what I've seen suggested and that worked was slowly and calming lifting your hand straight up. They hate their stomach being exposed so they usually let go
My boy has only ever bitten me twice. First time was when I first got him, I had him on my floor and he just ran up and bit my toe. He was just a baby and getting to know me and I wasn't mad at him for it. Second time was I was holding him right after dinner and my hands smelled like food. He barely bit down and stopped when he realized it was just me. 😂 I don't hand feed him, so I guess he just got excited.
@@me0wiex they shouldn't bite unless you have certain scent on your hand or you put them away after they bite like the video says but they might, also it depends on the hedgehog because they may bite harder
I got my Hedgehog 10 days ago. I read everything about them, expect biting. So I hand-fed my Hedgehog and that day he bit me. Thankfully I saw this video and I'm now bonding with my Hedgehog pretty well. Thanks!!
depends on the hedgehog. One of my girls bit me so hard i bled and screamed in pain. She was only 300 grams at the time, and I was confused how an animal that only weighs 300 grams can inflict so much pain. the other one bites but its nothing.
same I'm currently spraying alcohol in my hand right now why the hecc did he bite my pinky fingers 😫 I'm a violinist and was supposed to play today but it's too painful for a pinky vibrato so I called in sick
My hedgehog only tries to bite me and not my husband even though we eat the same things, use the same soaps, etcetc... I DON'T UNDERSTAND lol At least she's very slow so I can see it from a mile away
Could you please do a updated hedgehog routine. My hedgehog is 6 months old and it would be really helpful to know what exactly you do with trix I want to give her the best life she can have.
So here’s another piece of advice, you can kind of push your hand or wherever you’ve been paying towards your hedgehog so then your hedgehog will most likely release wherever you have been bitten. Again this is just a little heads up that she didn’t add and it could be helpful to you guys or the people that just saw this. I’m getting a hedgehog in maybe two months, so I’ve been doing research and that was a solution.
My hedgehog only bit me once, but she made it count. She drew blood and dented my finger nail. She refused to let go. I could not play dead. It HURT! Later I realized I was wearing nail polish. As a result, I never wore nail polish until a few months ago after it dawned on me that I could because she had passed away (RIP Dr. Quill, Medicine Woman).
This video is really help because my hedgehog techniques and I started bleeding and I was so confused but then I realized it might be the soap I use or because my hands probably smell like food
When they anoint there selves, they want to learn their environment it's very important for the hedgehog, if I were you.. I'd rather let it bite my shirt. Tbh it means they like u :3
I had to pick up a wild hedgehog with malnutrition, since it would have not survived winter,... Its basicly that mean unhandled hedgehog, the worst case szenario, if it had been a pet not a wild animal. It might curl up fast never exposes his belly etc. , but it never bites which i'm totally happy about. Like said in the video, it certainly must be a positive conditioning response. About the wild one: It was at 281 gramms. Maybe arround 6-7 months old i guess . The normal weight should have been 500 ( -900 for an adult) gramms with this spezies ( Northern Germany) at least thats what the internet told me so far. The hips had been all skin and bone, It is eating well now which is a relieve ,I've watched your videos about feeding them, it worked super well, it has been very picky at the start. I bathed it 2 times to get rid of flees and to be able to pinpoint ticks and pick them off, after that it let me handle it, even i do it as less as possible ( searching for parasites, weighting and such ) since i want it to go back into the wild again. Every time i feed it i put something inside the enclosure i've worn, to condition feedingtimes to my scent so that it stays a little bit more relaxed arround me. I keep it in a 21°C warm but silent place with the least ammount of traffic( me walking through my home etc.) Again your videos might be about pets, but have been a great help saving a wild one !
My hedgie recently broke her nail and I found blood all over her cage. So I decided to clean her up with water only and clean her stuff with soap. I found that the tube she sleeps in had a ton of blood. I am so concerned... besides she has not being eating much this past few days... I woke her in the morning to mouth feed her with mealworms and thank God she took them. I am going to mouth feed her for now, I guess. Tonight I will try something I read on the internet; treat that injury with hydrogen peroxide. I know it's something you can do with people but apparently, it is also ok for a hedgehog. I am so sad she has been acting weird lately... she is almost 2 years old. 😭
I just recently purchased a hedgehog, and I'm not had experience with one past the age of 6 and it belonging to a friend. My little guy was cuddling up with me went inside my shirt and I think he licked me before he bit me, but I was more concerned for the fact that he didn't break skin cuz I'm used to rats, mice, cats, and dogs. Thank you for the information that it normally doesn't break skin, cuz it was weird how it honestly felt like getting your finger pinched in the door, but it was on my side. Probably shouldn't have been letting him that close to my skin, but I tend to use very floral hand soap and I know he likes that smell, but I want him to also know what I as a person smell like when I eventually run out of it. Especially cuz he hasn't licked my hands with the smell just comes up to me.
Just noticed your Percy Jackson collection! I collect them too I just finished Aru Shah Which is the Hindu series that Rick helped Roshani Chokshi write!
Tori! I hadn’t heard you mention your husband before! I honestly thought you were like 18! 😝 but I was also thinking about, while watching this video, I thinn what you’re doing to educate people about hedgehogs is so special and I just hope everyone can appreciate your hard work. Also, I have had some really teachable moments with my own pets and other people in the past, and in this way I hope you know Draco will live on forever and ever, and the compassion and care you’ve taught to people has probably improved a lot of hedgehog’s lives, and so in a very big way Draco has done a lot for other hedgehogs, and I just wanted to remind you of that today. Thanks again!
I have an hedgehog is name is olly and it took me about 5 months for him to get used to me and the way my shift is I have just the perfect amount of time to spend with him I get out in the evening and my hedgehog bit when first got him but now he doesnt
Yeah I assumed it was because my hands smelled like food the 2 times he bit me and it was like a nibble it didn’t really hurt it just startled me. Thanks for the info
My boy is going through a biting phase. He never bit me for the longest time but then he turned 7 months old and started suddenly. He breaks the skin and damn, it hurts so bad! Like you said, I just learned to watch for the signs and I pull my fingers away before he has a chance. It's been a few weeks and he hasn't bitten me so hopefully he's growing out of it. 😂
I'm pretty sure that my hedgehog has tried to anoint with me; she's new to my home, so I'm not really surprised if that's the case. I don't hand feed her, and she's still getting used to my smell. I'm working on handling her and bonding with her. I can say from what I've seen with her so far, she's very curious and can be pretty friendly when I do bring her out. I can say that your videos have shown to be helpful. The first time I brought her home, she was sniffing around and did huff a bit once I moved her from my bed to her cage. But, after a little, she was perfectly fine inside it.
My hedgehog has issues with being skittish, he was from a bad home and know one would take him so I did, ( I’m 14) he tries to anoint with everyone he meets and ends up biting them, it’s why I don’t like to introduce him to a lot of people. He doesn’t do it with me anymore after I started to tap his paw when he tried to bite but he is incredibly skittish and it becomes a real problem as he doesn’t come out at night more often anymore. I can relate to yours and Blaise’s situation so much. Sherlock ( my hedgehog) is handled often as-well. If you can give me any information that would be great 👍 I also have rats (Fred and George) I would love more rat videos. Xx -Kara
That one dislike is like wow how dare that person never stop what your doing I love your videos even though it's 9:14 well now 9:15 I'm also writing this while watching your videos well this video now thanks again well bye 🙃😜🙃😜🙃😜🙃😜🙃😜
Morty is just a really grumpy dude so he has a biting tendency. I try to still hold him bare handed but honestly most of the time I have to use a cloth of some sort because I feel as if I have no choice. Especially when I first pick him up because that is when he most likely bites. I don’t think he hates me but he is just about to turn a year old and I have only had him since February. So he is still at the point of getting use to me alone with him just getting over one of his phases of quilling.
When I was first getting my hedgehog the lady I bought him from said that sometimes they like to “taste” you by biting and licking. And when he first bit me (he rarely does it) I was not expecting It to hurt as much as it did, he definitely has a strong bite😭😭
I got me hedgie peanut maybe a week ago and yesterday while she was wandering around I sat in front of a gap that I didn’t want her to go into otherwise she’d be hard to get out. While sitting there she went under my leg and I thought nothing of it until I felt a sharp pain and sat up slightly to see her biting my butt! It was painful but it was a little funny thinking about it
My hedgehog sometimes bites my finger but I also give him worms, could it be that the scent of the worms stays on my finger and that’s why he gives it a bite?
For many of them, they hate baths so much that just the sound of the faucet being turned on will freak them out enough to let go. Other methods include: Putting some alcohol on a q-tip and touching their nose with it, making a loud noise to startle them, spraying them with a small, reusable perfume atomizer filled with water, putting lemon or bitterant on your hands and pushing your finger toward the hedgehog when they bite, essentially causing them to gag. I've learned a lot of it has to do with how much a breeder handles the babies around 3 to 4 weeks old, and whether or not they correct the babies when they bite to anoint. Some breeders think this behavior is just too cute and allow it to progress to the point where you have a mouthy animal that becomes a concern once they grow teeth. I haven't produced a biter since I started dissuading babies from seeing humans as chew toys. It doesn't take long for a baby to learn that bite = loud noise.
👋🏻 hello! I have a few questions because I might get a hedgehog soon! 1: do the quills hurt??? 😂 2: How much times do I have to wash them? 3: do they carry diseases? 4: can they cause rashes and thingys? 5: how much do they have to be played with because if I’m on vacation!? 6: are they easy to take care of? Also we have a heater!, my brother has TONS of snakes so we have a lot of heaters will that keep them warm?? Thank you for reading this!! Have a great day
I can answer some, I don't have a hedgehog but I've watched tons of videos of experts so here are some answers: if you get stung by a quill, of course it's not like you don't feel anything, it stings a bit but it's not really hard to endure. Clean them not too often, when you can visually see they're dirty and you don't have to use soap everytime because soap can dry their skin out. Also, DON'T leave your hedgehog alone if you go on vacation! Travelling with them is quite easy, just talk about it with the vet.
About the heater, they should have a normal temperature so they don't need heating but if they try hibernation (if they're pigmy african hedgehogs they shouldn't hibernate, they could starve to death) you should try to warm them back to normal body temperature by using your body heat or a heating pad (20-30 minutes). When they attempt hibernation they usually feel colder to the touch and become wobbly and react very slowly.
Thank you so much I’m new and I started to use a new soap and my friends keep coming to my home and see my hedgehog and I think he is curious of the cent and annoyed about all the people thank you I thought he hated me
My hedgehog has only bitten me once(well...multiple times, but it was one situation). I had bought a new phone case online, and apparently my hands smelled like the case..... I didn't know what it was until she started sniffing around biting my phone😂 I took off the phone case, so she wouldn't bite my phone, but than she bit the phone case and just didn't want to let go😂(just a disclaimer: I did make sure there wasn't any harmful chemical on there. I washed it as soon as it came out of the package)
My hedgehog only bites if he smells good on me lol. If I get my finger too close he puts his quills over his eyes and can’t see, then he smells wax-worms on my hand and goes for it, and when he realizes it’s not food he huffs at me and turns away. So make sure that your hands are clean and don’t smell like food.
I’m getting a hedgehog in March and am terrified of getting a biter. This is an amazing video to showcase this. I rescued a wild hedgehog last year, and she didn’t bite so I hope it doesn’t become an issue.
My hedgehog is 3 and loves us BUT....when we first got him, he bit me. He got my right thumb and would not. let. go. And it felt like a death grip. I read if that happens, you need to blow in their face and they'll let go. He got me twice and the second time he bit me, I was blowing in his little face so much he immediately let me go. I'd love to know the PSI on their bite!! He doesn't bite any longer, but he's an aggressive little sucker and very sweet when he wants to be lol
USE PET SOAPS because Jonsons and aveeno are not great brands (although they seem like it ) but they are not safe jonsons used to use aspectice and things that cause cancer! I highly recommend soft pet shampoos .
My hedgehog only bites if I continuously pull him away from something, like keeping him from going under the couch for like 10 minutes, so obviously he does it because I'm annoying him but could it also be because he isn't handled enough/tame?
Hey! So I recently got a hedgie and every time I try to pet him or even get near him he begins to kind of hyper ventilate. If you keep petting him he will twitch as though he is going to bite. The breeder handled him daily but he seems to be very shy. I don’t want to scare him, but I also want to be able to handle and bond with him. Does anyone have any tips? Please!
My hedgehog is a chronic biter when she doesn’t get what she wants and when she chomps down, she chomps HARD and does not let go until she’s drawn blood, I’ve tried acting like nothings happening but as you’d imagine it hurts pretty bad.
My first hedgehog never bit me and he'd smell my fingers and lick and looked like he wanted to so I'd move my hands. But my hedgehog I have now, she bites with no warning and it hurts so bad and I never know when she's gonna do it😅😅
i smoke marijuana and vape pretty frequently and my hedgehog bites all the time 🥺 and i love him so much but i don’t know how pro correct this behaviour other than to stop smoking 😭 and i’m not ready for all that. I’ve noticed he licks/sniffs before he bites so i try to go hands off when he’s doing that but i’m really just stressed because i love him and i want others to love him just he’s for sure a biter because of the smoke
I've got a long eared hedgehog and they are known for biting so I'm here. my girl is currently quilling so she's really grumpy and scared because she's a baby but I'm hoping I can help by being more mindful when I comes the fear factor handling and noises can bring
Hi! I watched all of your hedgehog videos! It is soooo helpful! I remember that you talked about a good shampoo for them but I can’t find the link or the video that you talked about that. Thank you🦔🥰
I have two hedgehogs. I gave one of them a bath and when I put her back the other one bit her. Is that because of her smell? What do I do when that happens?
I just got my hedgehog and he bites literally EVERYTHING he comes into contact with. My hands, sweatshirts, blankets, couches, basically if you set him on it, he’s gonna bite it. I’m thinking it might just be all the smells that he’s experiencing that he’s not used to, since I got him from someone that wasn’t taking care of him. I’m not completely sure why he does it though. I’m just learning to have tough skin 😬.
I'm a new hedgie owner and I have a few questions. The biggest one is that I'm afraid he is not as active as he should be. I've had him for a week now (bonding is going well, I'm able to hold him without him getting upset and poking me) but he just seems to hide and sleep all the time. I have a thermometer and a heating lamp. It's averaging about 79 degrees. He's not using his wheel. Should I be worried about this? His name is Rupert, btw.
Hi! My hedgie once, a few months back, stopped walking and started shivering. We immediately took her to the vet and they said that she was probably just cold. She’s fine now, but what are some ways I can be prepared next time this happens? Thanks again!
My hog bit me for the first time. She is 2 years old and ive had her since she was just a pine cone. Its been a week and has not healed yet. I have tiny black spots where she dug her fangs in.
My kid has now been bitten by our new hedgehog three times. The last time it hung on and didn't want to let go. What do we do to make it stop? We really want to give this creature areal good on getting it to be tame and gentle with us. It is always in a ball and we give it baths and attention every day, bribing it with treats. It is a 2-year-old male.
What do you use to line the sides of your hedgehog wire cage. I'm getting a hedgehog in a month and I am buying a critter nation cage, but I dont know what to use to line the bottom and the sides of the cage.
I'm not sure why but my hedgie is more scared of my right hand than my left. Maybe they smell different or something but he just won't open up until my right hand is far away and out of sight. But my left he doesn't mind at all.
My new hedgie has latched on and bit me hard dozens and dozens of times, leaving bloodied, bruised bite marks all over! I was so exasperated. I blow at her hard and say no; the rest of the time I’m peeling off jaws of steel. She came from the exotic shop with mites and on a poor diet, no heat source, etc. just staying as calm as I can.
Hello! My hedgie is a rescue and we believe he was abused profusely to a point he needs to bite, he does not pop or hiss at all.. he just bites, I adore him and I don’t plan on giving up on him. But i need some tips on how to handle this, he’s bit a lot, blowing has actually made him bite me more often so that sucks. And poking his nose sounds like I will lose a finger to him... help!
I had an abused hedgehog with one eye. His previous owner/home sent me some pretty sad pictures. They also used leather gloves to handle him. He bit me and I had to go to the hospital for blood poisoning the next day. I can totally appreciate your situation. I had him for 3 1/2 years until he passed. I made it work by never putting my hands near his mouth. I never blew on him, and used prevention as my failsafe method. I loved him dearly and am even considering adding a hedgehog to my home again. I would pick him up in his beds and transfer him to a fleece for bonding. I would pick him up upon with my hands on either side of his tummy. He eventually laid his quills flat, but I never trusted him to not bite me like that again. He was trying to burrow in my couch and I put my hand out to stop him and that's why he bit me. I hope that you find something that works for you and your little one. As I said prevention was my method and it worked very well. I never let him come into contact with my skin again.
my hedgehog bites me literally every day every time without a reason, like it had becoming one of her habit. And sometimes when i try to curl her into balls, she struggled and wanting me to let go. She just hates curling up :'( What can i do?
When mine takes a scent to his back I refer to it as putting the scent in his hedgie wallet. Mine doesn’t bite too often occasionally he will but it’s never too hard it’s more like testing waters to see what he can get away with.
Oh yeah hedgehogs love the smell of cigarettes for some reason. Mine would always bite my dad whenever he’d hold him and now I’m really starting to think it’s because he likes the smell of cigarettes
I got my hedge hog a couple days ago I try to lay him with me and he bites me... and it’s not even like a oh tiny bite... I literally bleed like I don’t know my hands didn’t smell like food I made sure to wash them and everything ): maybe I’m just sensitive lmfao maybe trying a different time of the day..
maybe try putting a piece of cloth in their cage that smells like you so even when you're not actively playing with it, its still getting used to your smell...?
My hedgehog bit me for the first time today, I feel bad because I freaked out and put her back in her cage :'') she gripped down on my hand for over a minute
