My hedgehog's new cage!

[Myspoiltpiggies]

My little Dude, Oscar, has a new cage.

This is his old tiny petstore cage. As you can see his hidey and foodbowls barely fit in there along with Oscar himself. I could hear him at night searching for something to do and I new he was bored. But how could I fit any toys in there? The cage is 25 x 15 inches.


I gathered materials from the shed and thought how I could improve his life. I made him a 31 x 21 inch cage. It is in my room above my chest of drawers. As their are walls around the side I decided he didn't need edges round his cage so he only has two grids at the front to stop him falling out. I am able to fit more stuff in there to entertain him and he seems much happier.


He won the rosettes at a pet show!

[Myspoiltpiggies]

His cuddly toys


Food bowls and tube


His hideys

[fourbwabbys]

The cage looks great! He must love all of that room! But, something I wouldn't suggest doing is showing him. As you probably already know, this site is anti-showing.

[Pigaroo Mama]

Very nice job... he is a lucky hedgie.
Does he snuggle with his hedgehog stuffed animals?

[Myspoiltpiggies]

This site is against showing run by breeders..etc.. He only comes along to pet shows. They are much different and I thought they were okay and were allowed on this site Many people on here take their guinea pigs to those type of shows I thought.

[Myspoiltpiggies]

Originally Posted by Pigaroo Mama

Very nice job... he is a lucky hedgie.
Does he snuggle with his hedgehog stuffed animals?

He doesn't snuggle with them but he likes to push them around the cage

[Fluffball]

Its a wonderful cage! Do you have any pictures of him in the cage? We dont have Hedgehogs over here, so I would love to see some of him!

[Solebomber]

I would have to imagine a "pet" show would be much different than a show put on by breeders and wouldn't be classified as a show that promoted breeding and showing based on a set breed type standard, but more of an educational and fun type of show promoting responsible ownership and somewhere for like minded people to get together and have fun with thier pets, of course I would imagine some pets could or would be stressed greatly being transported and in a unfamiliar place where as other pets would have fun and of course that would be the judgement of the pets owner as to wether the animal enjoys going on trips and visiting new places or would totally freak out.

[stitsy&codyPig]

Wow I bet he loves his new cage!

[Fluff_n_roll]

Great cage!!

[Myspoiltpiggies]

Thanks everyone. Oscar only goes to his pet shows once a year and he doesn't get stressed at all. Last time they didn't take him out.. they just looked at him in his cage. They did that with a few because they didn't want to disturb them. He is used to journeys as I like to take him out with me and he walks around the house with me so he's used to lots of noise. Here are some pictures of him!

[Cavie Cove]

Nice hedgehog. Is he an albino type?
I never knew you could have hedgehogs as pets.

[Myspoiltpiggies]

No he is not Albino, funnily enough I always get asked that question African Pygmy hedgehog are lighter than wild ones I suppose. He is a crossbreed - Salt and Pepper x Apricot. I didn't know they could be pets either until I found the person who was selling him

[Kriket]

Oscar looks just like my Em! Unfortunatly she passed on a few years ago, and just didn't want another hedgie, as much as I loved her. Very cute, and such a nice cage!

[Sabriel]

My guinea pigs have a hedge hog toy. We call him Mr.Hedgie. I put him in with my single skinny pig.

My pigs like to push thier hedgehog plush around too.

[Myspoiltpiggies]

Aww Kriket I'm sorry about Em. After Oscar I will probably not get another hedgy, they are interesting pets but not the type to snuggle with.. and they are so much money. But I really love Oscar, he is an intertaining pet!!!

Hehe.. He pushed one of his hedghehog toys to the food dish yesterday, maybe he wanted to share his food

[Sabriel]

Kero used to do that all the time. He was always shoving Mr. Hedgie's head into the veggie dish. Now he's older and doesn't do it anymore He was quite mad at Mr.Hedgie for smelling a bit like Spinel so we put Mr. Hedgie in with Lina. It's quite the love triangle.