Hello everyone
This post is dedicated to MAXIMO my hedgehog, my baby. I lived with him a little more than three beautiful years, he loved to drink water (he drank too much water), eat chicken, strawberries, his vices were sleeping a lot of pricking and biting people.
It was a gift for my sister, but after two days of not being able to touch it because it was rough, "it became a ball, leaving the spines tense, which at the minimum contact made a very loud noise and made a noise typical of them to frighten their predators." Interested because it caused him much fear.
On the third day I was encouraged to take it with my two hands while it was made small ball and I put it on my chest (it hurt a lot that I was pricking), I lay down and leave it like that as the minutes went by opening until I was lying on my chest looking at me but with Fear because its barbs continued to leave them hard. For a week it was like this until I stopped being afraid and he let himself be touched, leaving his spines low, I had gained his confidence.
Soon I used it to sleep with me and when I wanted to go to the bathroom I started scratching my chest warning me. I left it on the floor and it came to my feet to be lifted. When I was nervous or scared I calmed him down by calling him by his name (he would get nervous or aggressive and bite anyone who was not me). I always left him in my bed to run or cost in my sheets (he liked to sleep under the sheets), one day when he was tossing and turning in my bed I got a little closer to call him baby, without thinking he turned around and He ran to where I was, it was a beautiful moment, from that moment I always called him a baby to come to me.
In his third year he began to drag his left leg at times he could not walk well so I took him to the vet and diagnosed him with the wobbly hedgehog disease, it is a progressive, degenerative and incurable disease. It was a few months until one day I could not walk it was horrible to see him in those conditions, his last day of life I spent all day with him, a moment I wanted to eat his favorite food the chicken bringing it to his mouth to see that he did not put crazy for her as I always did I realized I could not move her mouth either, then I started crying and begging her to please eat saying: baby, baby please eat. At that moment I draw strength to crawl a few inches to put one of his paws on my thumb and stood staring at his face, after that I picked him up to go to nap with him. At night holding him in my hands while he looked at me and I caressed his little head gave his last breath leaving me totally in tears.
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Sleeping very comfortable
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I will never forget my baby