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Snowball's Hedgehogs Breeders of African Pygmy Hedgehogs.
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Love a good hedgehog cuddle after work. This is my current girly looking for her forever home. She does love a good cudd...
23/09/2023

Love a good hedgehog cuddle after work. This is my current girly looking for her forever home. She does love a good cuddle 🦔🦔💞💞

2 females still👀🏡 💞💞💞Update: only one girl left. Mixed female still available.
24/03/2023

2 females still👀🏡 💞💞💞

Update: only one girl left. Mixed female still available.

Don't you just love when baby hogs start becoming little independent know it all. First I get told off for picking them ...
22/02/2023

Don't you just love when baby hogs start becoming little independent know it all. First I get told off for picking them up as it's just to unsettling to be picked up all the time🤦🏻‍♀️ after arguing with them to be able to snap a couple pictures they then decide oh but that was so amusing let's try to jump out they cage🤦🏻‍♀️ no hedgehogs were harmed in the event of taking these just a couple morioworms and my hand 🤣🦔
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So I would like to jump on the Topic of WHS in hedgehogs. This is an important read on Hedgehogs.Wobbly hedgehog syndrom...
16/12/2022

So I would like to jump on the Topic of WHS in hedgehogs. This is an important read on Hedgehogs.

Wobbly hedgehog syndrome (WHS) is a progressive, degenerative, neurological disease of the African pygmy hedgehog.The cause is believed to be genetic. Nearly 10 percent of pet African pygmy hedgehogs are affected, due to their limited bloodlines.

Symptoms and signs

The disease slowly degrades the hedgehog's muscle control. This first appears as a wobble while the hedgehog is attempting to stand still. Over time, the hedgehog will lose control of all muscles from the rear of its body to the front. A tentative diagnosis can be based purely on the clinical signs, but definitive diagnosis is only possible from post-mortem examination of spinal cord and brain tissues.

The hedgehog's health will deteriorate over the course of weeks or months, and in the advanced stages of this disease, they become completely immobilized, making euthanasia a recommended consideration.Most animals die within two years of diagnosis.

Symptoms usually begin in hedgehogs before they reach two years old, but can occur at any age.
Treatment

There is no known cure for WHS, which has been compared to human multiple sclerosis. Various vitamin supplements, antibiotic and steroid treatments have been used; some appear to temporarily improve the signs or slow the progression of the disease, but as signs of WHS wax and wane, it is difficult to assess the benefit of treatments.No treatment has been shown to prevent the progression of paralysis.

Two more babies to the addition! Well done Alby and Sonic on your 2 healthy babes. For more information please contact m...
05/12/2022

Two more babies to the addition! Well done Alby and Sonic on your 2 healthy babes. For more information please contact me. 🦔🦔🦔

Twinkles baby all grown up ready to leave the nest. She can come with her own viv if preferred. Message for more details...
02/12/2022

Twinkles baby all grown up ready to leave the nest. She can come with her own viv if preferred. Message for more details.

Twinkle's baby has been identified as female and is growing up fast.She'll be off to her forever home at the end of Octo...
02/10/2022

Twinkle's baby has been identified as female and is growing up fast.
She'll be off to her forever home at the end of October.

Twinkle and her baby
03/09/2022

Twinkle and her baby

Another clean hedgehog.
29/05/2022

Another clean hedgehog.

29/05/2022

Hedgehog bath time!

Hoglets all ready to go to their new homes.
07/05/2022

Hoglets all ready to go to their new homes.

07/05/2022

Ariel having a run about

We've now sexed the baby hoglets.2 females and a male.All are doing well and a month old already.
14/03/2022

We've now sexed the baby hoglets.
2 females and a male.

All are doing well and a month old already.

Mummy and babies doing well
26/02/2022

Mummy and babies doing well

Update on Alby's litter of hoglets.All doing well and growing fast.It's difficult to get pictures as we don't want to di...
22/02/2022

Update on Alby's litter of hoglets.
All doing well and growing fast.
It's difficult to get pictures as we don't want to disturb them but here are a few.

The latest litter of hoglets. Born 13th February.
20/02/2022

The latest litter of hoglets.
Born 13th February.

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