Sugar gliders/hedgehogs
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OrangeJuice
Established Member
Just a heads up for the hedgies. I owned one for about 3 months, and while he was adorable they're VERY messy. He'd chew up his bedding and pee in it...and then wrap himself in it. They also stink like a ferret does, and any other hedgehogs my family has owned has been very mean. All my friends with sugar gliders only have great things to say about them, they're just so social so you have to spend forever with them.
OrangeJuice
Established Member
If you just google the laws for it it says it's illegal without a permit, which you already know. However it says the cost is about ~50 dollars per animal per year. So the government is gonna be up your butt about the whole ordeal.
jamest0o0
Chameleon Enthusiast
Yeah, awhile back they weren't handing out permits though. Wasn't sure if that changed. I've never gotten a permit before so wasn't sure what it was all about. I'd mainly want sugar gliders. I heard hedgehogs are a pain in the add. I wonder if they hand out permits to people renting?
Andee
Chameleon Enthusiast
Hedgehogs don't really sound that different than hamsters...but from what I know the ones they sell as pets are tropical species and need heating. And I honestly would never recommend feeding them half of what most people do... cat food *frowns* or even dry ferret food... It's that kind of crud that makes them smell as bad as they do. They don't smell like flowers and roses but feed them a species appropriate diet and they don't smell so much like a skunk.
Sugar gliders are like parrots.... they need a huge cage compared to what most people put them in to keep them happy honestly, and unless you have a minimum of 4 hours spread out the day to spend with it then I don't recommend getting one by itself. You would need likely a bonded pair, and it's hard to socialize them if they are strongly bonded because they usually don't care about people as much.
Sugar gliders are like parrots.... they need a huge cage compared to what most people put them in to keep them happy honestly, and unless you have a minimum of 4 hours spread out the day to spend with it then I don't recommend getting one by itself. You would need likely a bonded pair, and it's hard to socialize them if they are strongly bonded because they usually don't care about people as much.
withersshila
New Member
I don't know about in PA, but each hedgehog is different. Some are rude, some are incredibly social (like mine). I don't require any extra heating, but I live in a warm state and I keep him in a room with my chameleons (four heat lights on at once warm the room very well). And he doesn't stink, not like how they've been described so far. I barely smell him. And he's not very messy, in fact he's nearly litter box trained.
