Computer lessons

Coconut here, learning how to use the computer so I can start answering emails.

Man, typing is sure taking a long time! I gotta keep my answers short!

Canoli's Tumble

Warning: if you catch a falling Hedgehog, her spines will puncture you!

Canoli tried to walk off someone and I caught her. She immediately rolled onto a ball ( because hedgehogs can fall up to 7 ft and will be protected by their spines). Her spines punctured my skin a little. And boy was it itchy

The itchy effect is another one if their defense mechanisms. You would think that their spines (or quills) would be enough, but NOOOO they add to it by anointing, which means they will eat something and then make a foam in their mouth, then lick their quills.  This way, if someone wants to try to eat them, they not only get the spines, but they'll also get whatever poison they have on their quills. 

Since we dont have any poison for her to get into, she just uses whatever she eats.  The reason we itch when she climbs on us and her spines are up and not relaxed, is because she has small pieces of dirt and food all over the tips, and it gets under our skin and itches.  It goes away within about 5 mins.

She's fine though, she only fell about 2 inches lol.  

Coconut's playtime with daddy

I LOVE. To crawl all over daddy at night. I like to stick my nose in his ears and then nibble on him (he won't let mom take a picture). But it makes him laugh because it tickles :P. Then I climb all over him. Sometimes I eat some of my dinner on him too. Check out these pictures!

Canoli's new playpen

I am having SOOO much fun in my new playpen!  There are all sorts of bright colors to look at and all sorts of stuff for me to climb on and crawl through and keep me active and enriched.  I know it's a little weird being in a kiddie pool, but it's so BIG! I LOVE it!!

  

Good Morning!

For all of us, it's morning.  Pastrami woke up all cranky and crabbing (crying in sugar glider words), but the second mommy brought breakfast in "bed" (ie: her pouch) she stopped crabbing.  Then when there was no more food on my finger, she started up again, so got more food :)


The "morning" routine starts at 7pm here for our current babies.  Everyone is nocturnal, so they wake up at 7pm.  The rounds start with giving Iberico his gourmet meal.  I portion his plate out so he can choose what he wants, veggies, fruit, baby food, egg, all in separate locations on his plate :P

Then Canoli's mix of her hedgehog food and worms (she usually doesn't eat till later when no one is looking, she's shy!).

Pastrami and Coconut are next, they get fed a lot of their food by hand.  Once I get their mix of food together, they wake up and start to run on their wheel and run around their enclosure.  So I just stick two fingers in their food and give one finger for each of them to lick off.

Last is Sesame, who gets her worm put in front of her and she'll stalk it for a bit until she eats it (check out our youtube page to see videos of that).

We try to feed Iberico the Short Tailed Opossum and Pastrami and Coconut the Sugar Gliders by hand, so that they are used to our smell and want to be around people.  If you want to stop by to feed them, and then play with them now that they are all awake, feel free to let me know!

What to do today?

Hmmmm... what should we do today........



SLEEP!

Play time with Irie

Today we got to play with Irie. She's one of our new volunteers.  She was very nice to me and I enjoyed licking apple sauce off her fingers.  I hope more people come to play with us!

  

Trip to the Vet - by Iberico

Mom took me to the vet today.  I had to get fixed.  I am not sure what that means exactly, although I am certainly feeling a little light afterwards.  All I know is that I had an amazing nap and when I woke up, everyone gave me mealworms!!  Mealworms are my favorite treat!

So all in all it wasn't so bad :)

That's me with Dr. Jamie.  She rocks!