After my post the other day about Harley I’ve gotten a lot of questions.  I’ve posted about him in the past welcoming him home and showing off his new bachelor pad but it’s been a while.   People are still confused about the whole hedgehog as a pet thing. Some of the main questions I get are: Can he shoot his quills like …

We finally finished working on Harley’s Hedgie Bachelor Pad!  Here are some photos from when we bought it, before doing anything to it.  You can see how huge it is next to our 180L turtle tank!  It’s actually meant for rabbits or guinea pigs, which is why we had to do some alterations to it.  Hedgies aren’t the most hardy …

Harley has been with us for six days now, and we don’t really see much of him. When we go to bed, this is what we see, when we wake up… this is what we see.   A spikey little ball curled up behind his snuggle buddy (microwavable for warmth) inside his igloo. If it weren’t for the lack of food …

Ok first let me get the usual suspects aside.  My husband, my friends, my family… goes without saying. There’s something I have tried to live without that didn’t go very well, I was miserable. When I first left home when I was 21, back in 1996, I lasted approximately three weeks without any pets. It was horrible!  I wasn’t allowed …

A few weekends ago my husband came in from walking the dogs and said “You might want to grab your camera, there’s some kind of motorcycle thing going on across the street!”.  The sound of motorcycles is nothing new here in Rotterdam, especially in this area.  So I didn’t even notice the sounds of them coming and going, but I …

God I’ve been meaning to write about this for ages but I’ve been so busy the last while with my friend Penny being in town and a few other things that have been going on (that I will write about soon), my blog has suffered. Anyhow, a while back my mother in law asked for some photos of us because …

Harley was out to play for a while yesterday after I cleaned his cage.   He isn’t out very often in the day so I took advantage and got some pics.  Check out those little teeth!  That’s one of the cutest things about hedgies, they all look like bucktooth little nerdballs. He’s all ‘Please get me from my good side’ in …

I have a problem.  I am completely and utterly addicted to animals… Turtles especially.  I can’t get enough of them, every one I see I fall in love with and want to take it home.   This is all my pets and they are all awesome.   I really love caring for them and making cool enclosures for them like Harley’s Bachelor …

That’s apparently what has been wrong with Harley lately.   I noticed the other day when I took him out of his cage that his ears looked dry and ‘gunky’ so I went to one of my hedgehog forums to ask what to do about it. The advice I got was to give him an oatmeal bath and rub either nipple cream, …

This weeks FOAD is 100% dedicated to my cats.   Don’t be fooled by the photo, they look cute but they are evil, pure evil! By evil, I mean incredibly intelligent and crafty… and even a little insane. In the past I’ve had moments where I was sure I was going to crack and give them away, but I’ve had them …

Well since they have been living with us for almost two weeks, it’s probably time to introduce them!  Molly (on the left) and Cleo are our baby dumbo eared rats.  We bought them two weeks ago after falling in love with them in one of our local pet stores.   They are almost three months old and are very very cute! …