tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59145463121862721392011-07-30T15:02:25.788-04:00EdgePig = sweet little African Hedgehog. Two hedgies, two rescued cats, one worm farm. How many more animals can I fit in a little apartment?Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13470785810110869810noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914546312186272139.post-69497041603005190152009-10-15T19:14:00.004-04:002009-10-15T19:27:30.931-04:00

A new hedgehog is coming! I'm ready for a new one, and she is as different from Sally Snert as it is possible for a hog to be and not start an entirely new coloration. New hedgie-pog is an albino! I will be getting her after the 17th. Hopefully she & Miss Felicity will hit it off. If you click on the title "Albino Hog," you'll go to my excellent breeder's site!

Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13470785810110869810noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914546312186272139.post-54586334781157281922009-10-13T16:41:00.001-04:002009-10-13T16:43:18.873-04:00

Here's a photo of the reason for this burial site. Beautiful, bright mums to honor Sally Snert's bright spirit. They have lasted & lasted.

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Here is Sally Snert's final resting place. The lighter brown flecks are lemon verbena, scattered on her grave mound to repel cats & dogs. They are averse to citrus, from what I hear. And she has stayed safely buried so far. This site is much closer to my building, so I can check often.

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And then, there are the perils of urban pet burial. Initially, I planned to bury Sally at my boyfriend's house, underneath a beautiful little old Japanese maple. However, he is trying to sell & he has raccoons around. How would it look to potential buyers if the coons were digging up the yard? Much less snacking on my little animal? So I picked a little hillock in the midst of my development of

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Hello, Abandoned Blog. My little dainty hedgehog, Sally Snert, passed on in August. I noticed that she was shaking, just a little tiny bit, before I went away overnight. When I returned she was dead in the corner of the cage, prickled up & stiff. Poor, sweet little Snert. Then, unfortunately, I FROZE her. Thinking that, ok, this will preserve her so that I can take her to the vet & the vet can

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Time to whine. I have a broken ankle that is now held together by a stainless steel clamp apparatus. My apartment is an incredible mess. My plants are dying. I am not eating properly. I am teaching two classes. I can't carry a cup of coffee for myself. My sweet little hedgehogs are not getting out of their cage much. I am so incredibly sick of seeing the above view! It's blue for a

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A picture book featuring hedgehogs that is lower on my list of favorites is Ouch! by Ragnhild Scammell, illustrated by Michael Terry. It has cutesy cartoonish illustrations. The main character, Hedgehog, and the goat who solves the problem in the end are pretty charming, but their faces don't convey much expression. Also, the landscape is rather green & fruitful for a time when a hedgehog is

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The origin of Snert. When my boyfriend and I were brainstorming names for the new hedgie, we got onto to snout, and sniffling, and piggy type names. After this little burst of naming, I came out with Snert, as a name for a male hedgie. They are constantly sniffing and burrowing their little cold cute nosies into you. Well, mine both do! Snert sounds snoutish, and very like what hedgehogs do,

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Right, let's combine hogs and children's literature. A sweet, sweet picture book entitled The Happy Hedgehog Band (1991 in UK; 1992 in US) is one of my favorite pic books featuring hedgies as main characters. By Martin Waddell of Little Bear & Farmer Duck fame, and illustrated by Jill Barton. Harry the hedgehog makes himself a drum, tum-tum-te-tum. When he plays, deep in the heart of Dickon Wood,

Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13470785810110869810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914546312186272139.post-11067285802132029462009-06-17T15:59:00.000-04:002009-06-17T17:14:55.170-04:00

Newbie now has a name! It will be revealed at the end of this post. I started with this list, in no particular order:Truffle Mocha Fern Flower Sally Snert Heidi Hog Lucy Millicent PigletI liked all of them and all went well with Felicity. Some just didn't fit Newbie's personality, though. I threw out Millicent & Lucy. Millicent is too cold & formal for her, and Lucy too boring. Mocha, while

Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13470785810110869810noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914546312186272139.post-40187466619343698552009-06-16T15:22:00.000-04:002009-06-16T15:38:21.075-04:00

Felicity HufflePuff Hedgehog, the original hog, is a snuggler and a sweetie. She has been to visit a classroom of Baltimore City first graders, where she allowed everyone to handle her at least a bit! By the end, she had had enough, and turned into a little ball of prickles and a nose. Nonetheless, I was a little anxious about how she would react to Newbie, the latest acquisition to the

Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13470785810110869810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914546312186272139.post-5361170874462291462009-06-16T15:15:00.000-04:002009-06-16T15:20:12.661-04:00

She is tubular! African hedgehogs enjoy sticking their little heads into empty toilet paper tubes, or specially made tubes of craft foam that are the same size. They shake their heads about, flip over, roll around, walk around, trot around, all while wearing the tube. It is ridiculously cute. Some hogs will tube, then scoop up a bit of handy small stuff, like cat food or pelleted bedding, and

Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13470785810110869810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914546312186272139.post-87072392594218747182009-06-16T14:56:00.000-04:002009-06-16T15:14:17.512-04:00

There is a new addition to the household! A tiny baby African hedgie, chocolate pinto female, currently installed in the bathtub for safety. Felicity, the original hog, is getting along with her just fine, as most female hedgehogs do. However, I am cautious about putting Newbie (that's a placeholder name; she'll get her real name soon) into Felicity's cage, because that has been strictly Felicity

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"Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people -- those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food; and Miss Heliotrope, Maria, and Wiggins were typical representatives of their own sort of people."This quote from Elizabeth Goudge's The Little White Horse (1946) will serve me for blogging categories. I, like J.K.

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