If you want a hedgehog in the USA, I'm your girl. MAKING WAVES.I want to share my love of hedgies wi
I am building my brand: Hedgehogs by Quillaby Hedgehogs are very low maintenance and are sustained from good quality cat food. I have habitat supplies available for purchase such as the housing itself, hideaways, food bowls, wheels, water bottles, and washable bedding. My babies range from a standard salt and pepper hedgehog with a pinto pattern to albino and reverse pinto with split eye, ear, and
face color. The price will be determined depending on their s*x, color, and pattern. The price begins at $200 for a standard male, $220 for the standard female, $250 for reverse pinto and other uniquely marked males, and $275 for reverse pinto and other uniquely marked females, the full masked or quad masked hedgehogs can range up to $350.
23/03/2025
I came back guys. Still fighting for my kids to return. Still grinding and making waves. Please pray they return my boys. Follow my blog on blogger.com it's called The Family Shepherd Corporation. We're going to change the world by meeting needs we see aren't being met. Good things to come.
Thank you for your support in helping me find my place here. I love you all. Being The Mother Of Hedgehogs has been a great blessing.
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How The Journey Started.
I was a girl who loved hedgehogs. I had a boyfriend in high school who wanted one as a present for his birthday. I ended up falling head over heals for “Sonic” who turned out to be a girl, so respectfully renamed “Sonny.” We broke up like that happens sometimes, and for 8 years I dreamt in my dreams a recurring dream finding hedgehogs in the forest and collecting them in my shirt. I dreamt of going to new houses and those people had multiple hedgehogs in all color ranges.
This dream ate at me for 8 years until one day, a friend said she had a hedgie and asked if I wanted her. I immediately said yes. That was Dottie.*RIP* Dottie was my sweet love, and I got her a boyfriend “Meatloaf.” They had two beautiful babies “Bear” and “Baby Dottie.” I started my journey with this dream in mind: I wanted more human children, and my (ex)husband refused to give me anymore. I had such baby fever, I got my needs met by having hedgehog babies to raise. I ended up buying 2 more from craigslist (for those of you asking, no don’t do this. It was a mistake, but it is my story.) I got Helix and Princess Prickles. Helix had a litter with Bear, which produced my very own loving boy and light of my life “Niko.” All memes on my page star my little “Nik Nik” he is my baby. I tried rehoming him many times throughout my struggles and he always returned home to me. He will never leave me again!!! NEVER. He’s MINE!!! Muahahahhahaha lol ok back to the story...
My love for hedgehogs led me to look for other fellow hedgehog lovers to talk to because my (now ex) husband didn’t get it or respect me. (To this day still doesn’t.) I found Instagram to be an amazing tool to reach the hedgehog world. Y’all, it was/is glorious!!! I found all of the colors I could ever imagine, and I found actual breeders. I found that there was an actual “club” if you will, and an educating community that would help me be ethically and morally correct. If you know me, you know those are my middle names. I strive to be perfect, as you know I will always fail myself because I’m human. I don’t ever quit, I learn from my mistakes and rise above and become a better version of myself. It’s who I am and what I do.
I met Gigi, Lilian, Amy, Kaysea, Janine, Erin, Jacey, Farrah, Sharay, Jacob, and Firequills Hedgehogs. There are other breeders that are very influential to my story, and you all know who you are. They are the ones I do business with because they understand love and most importantly, my vision. Thank you to all of my mentors. My mentor is Lilian from Pokeymoms hedgehogs and hers is Amy from Hoodz Pets (I consider my grandmentor :D). I got my first two pedigreed hogs from Cupcake Hedgie Farms; Quillaby and Fiji. I got my next two from Kaysea, however we couldn’t find their pedigrees, but I knew they were healthy because I trusted Kaysea- I got Sanza and Clementine. Then, I found the most beautiful hedgehog markings I have ever seen at Top Notch Hedgehogs of Miami. Janine had mastered the art of a gorgeous hog. They’re all glorious. I bought 4 from her; Moses, Charleigh, Sawyer Brown, and Cammie. The temperament needed work. Moses always bit the living daylights out of me. I didn’t know then, that it was me who needed the work lol. I then bought 5 hedgehogs from OkeyPokey Hogs; Harper, Melody, Ultraviolet, Klarabelle, and Niall. Erin (the owner) was amazing. The love she put into her hedgehogs was very evident. That is when I decided to be like her. I re-homed any “biters” or buttholes and wanted to start over. They all went to loving homes. People who knew how to love and understand better than I could at that time in my life. Thank you to those who saved those poor misunderstood souls from me when I was too dense to figure it out. Jacey and Farrah were very inspirational to me because they were about ten years younger than me, but doing what I was doing. They had a jump start on life. I’m very proud of those two young ladies. Sharay helped me find the most beautiful AND sweet babies in the world. She is an amazing breeder-I got Duff, Jaded, Ginger, Haruka, and Kirova from that Godsend. Jacob- boy oh boy. That man, *pardon me I’m choking up* He befriended me at the Hedgehog convention in Kentucky. I loved him ever since (as a friend). He has an incredible husband :P. He was just a very good friend to me throughout all of the ups and downs. Thank you, bro. Firequill Hedgehogs designed my logo and also showed me how to persevere through real life struggles, but also still keep looking towards the future-you are important to me.
I want to shout out all of my friends who also helped me through the ups and downs most recently. I don’t want you to feel taken for granted because without you, I wouldn’t have gotten here. Thank you to Morning Star Hedgehogs-Jonell Stetz, May Sully, Jenna, Janelle, Jerilee, Mikel and Kimberly Ketchum-Ketchum Farms (my mentees
I used the entire community to better my program. I got judged, I got outcasted, but I kept fighting. I still love everyone who even tried to stop me because they motivated me to prove them wrong. So thank you to all of my so called “haters” I love you guys and cannot wait until you see how truly beautiful you are. You just gotta quit judging and have understanding. Life will be much easier if you will do that for yourself. I know you’re not bad people, you’re perfectionists just like me, but you have to remember that no matter how hard people try to be perfect, it is impossible. Only GOD is perfect. Have some forgiveness, that is what God sent Jesus to this world for. To prove to you, that no matter what bad things happen, you have to forgive to continue being YOU. THE BEST YOU.
While I was trying to build my brand in 2015, I wrote this, “I am building my brand: Hedgehogs by Quillaby, and soon there will be merchandise to choose from to make your experience more convenient. Hedgehogs are very low maintenance and are sustained from good quality cat food, fruits and veggies, and insects. (Mine love superworms). Soon I will have habitat supplies available for purchase such as the housing itself, hideaways, food bowls, wheels, water bottles, and washable bedding. My babies range from a standard salt and pepper hedgehog with a pinto pattern to albino and reverse pinto with split eye, ear, and face color. The price will be determined depending on their s*x, color, and pattern. The price begins at $200 for a standard male, $220 for the standard female, $250 for reverse pinto and other uniquely marked males, and $275 for reverse pinto and other uniquely marked females, the full masked or quad masked hedgehogs can range up to $350.”
The entire time, I fought my controlling and bullying husband at the time. He told me every day that I could not succeed. (My kids witnessed all of this) He told me I would never be equal to him business wise, intellectually, socially, or any other way. Always asked for proof. Basically spit in my face and said, in my mind, “you are a woman and belong in the house doing housework and raising kids and nothing else.” I was going to school for my Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology while all of this was happening simultaneously. (Remember, I have only been doing this for 3.5 years now.) All of this happened in a short amount of time, and now I have over 10k followers between my IG, FB and not including my personal account.(BOOYAH ex husband) I know I can do this because of everyone who believed in me. That’s all it takes. JUST ONE BELIEVER. Thank you to anyone who lifted me up and encouraged me when I was down. You saved my dreams.
I digress, so this man told me I couldn’t, shouldn’t, and wouldn’t. Finally I showed his ignorant brain on paper, my goals and visions. He shut up for a while. Until he saw I was succeeding without him once more. I almost sold my company over ten times in the course of 3 years. I’m so happy I didn’t. I learned more about life through hedgehogs than anyone could have ever expressed to me verbally.
My mission is to share that truth that I found through hedgehogs. If you can get the most terrified animals on earth to open up to you, you are a good human. If they don’t open up right away, there’s hope, and I will teach you how to understand your baby. Where there is a will, there is a way. Don’t give up hope. Message me. Let’s schedule an appointment. Hedgehogs are the easiest animals to care for contrary to the old (not age, just beliefs) breeder’s beliefs. All they need is cat food, a wheel, and you can give them space or love(smother them!!!). They don’t care either way. What you put into your baby is what he/she will receive and THEN give back. If you just want one for show, cool, if you need a companion to understand you, they’re the pet for you. I also want to confess that while I started my company with no education about hedgehog intra/interpersonal skills, I have changed and made leaps and bounds to perfect my breeding program. My hedgehogs are pedigreed and tracked for health issues in order to not reproduce unnecessary heartbreak. This is sometimes inevitable because we cannot truly predict all genetics, so while I’m doing my best to produce the best quality animal, God always has his own plan. You have to trust and understand his plan. In order to appease the heart ache, I offer replacement after proof that it was a genetic thing and not a nurture thing. I am a firm believer that LOVE cures all, so if you want your buddy to live forever, love him forever. Never neglect him by withholding love (undivided attention/companionship). Feeding, cleaning, and watering are bare minimum. Your hedgehog is a mirror. When you hold your baby, what do you see? Love, or fear?
I love hedgehogs because they taught me how to love the right way. “Live, Laugh, Hedgehogs.”
