Edwina's Weight Progress

In the following graph, you can follow Edwina's weight progress.  We weigh her in the morning and evening.  Yellow represents morning weight and black represents evening weight.

Interesting Hedgehog Information

The wild hedgehog lives in open forests, in hedges, and near towns.  They can have a territory of up to 6 acres.  They are found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. However, most hedgehogs live in Asia and Europe. The hedgehogs that are bred and adopted in America are mostly African Pygmy hedgehogs.

A hedgehog's predator in the wild is the owl.  Hedgehogs mainly eat worms, beetles, earwigs, and slugs.  They have been known to eat  frogs, lizards, snakes, birds, and mice.

When hedgehogs are born, they grow quills within a few hours of their birth. As the hedgehog gets older it grows new quills. A hedgehog can live to be about six years in the wild and about six to ten years in captivity. Here in Germany, they are protected and are not kept as pets.  

Hedgehogs can reproduce at an age of three months old. 

A hedgehog lives with its mother until it is about six months old. While the babies are with their mother, they are fed milk from their mother. After the six months with mother, hedgehogs go live on their own.  They are very private animals.

Hedgehogs are more active at night - so they are called "nocturnal mammals".  Hedgehogs can swim, run, and climb very well. 

Hedgehogs in Literature

Quite possibly the most famous of all hedgehogs is Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, made famous in Beatrix Potter's book, "The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle".  Click on Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle to take you to a library site which contains the complete book with pictures...

Don't worry....as much as we have become attached to Edwina, we have not dressed her up like Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (although I have been tempted!!!)

Here are more books to investigate - mostly for children...