What do hedgehogs do at night? yes I know they are nocturnal and that is when they are active but this hoglet is still feeding in the day and learning to forage as well. He should be too tired to do much at night!
Now he's getting bigger and eating some cat food (as well as his favourite worms!)he is pooing more and it is definitely getting more smelly. So, every morning I clean his home, put fresh newspaper around the bottom and then put his soft chenille towel for a bed and on that goes his furry pouch and a flannel.
The flannel goes over the top of the pouch in case he needs some privacy. He takes the flannel label and pulls it in his mouth so it covers the entrance to his pouch and then tucks the label under his head (I tried to photograph this as its the cutist thing but as soon as I start to move the flannel he moves as well, so have not succeeded so far). Did you know hedgehogs had comfort tags? I am a bit worried he may have a complex.
Anyway I'm getting distracted, the whole point of this was what goes on at night?
You see in the day he poos in one end on the newspaper, so I carefully put some extra and tuck it up around the edges a bit in case his aim is not too good. he is male after all!
Well this morning, he seemed to have managed to poo at the wrong end and up the only bit of unprotected wall of his home. So was he having some kind of all night party and got lost on his way to the bathroom end?
He was also very hungry this morning and managed to eat unmashed cat food. At the time I did not think about the post party munchies (but maybe!) my reasoning for that was yesterday during the garden forage for worms, he found a snail and started to eat it. Yes, I can confirm that snails also make hedgehogs self anoint but they also get covered in snail slime and then it gets transferred to their spikes.
Actually I think that answers my whole question about the extra poo and the smell. The moral of the story is 'don't eat snails at partys'.
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