Back!

Many things have happened since my last blog post! I moved to Boston, for example, and my camera broke. It seemed a little silly to update the blog without pictures: they're pretty much the point. Here are some new ones and a little text!

I still have Sophie, Nacho, Garland, and Canoe. Michael Phelps lives with Dad and my sister now, and Motorboat and Calcifer were adopted by two awesome people through the Hedgehog Welfare Society. 

Sophie and Nacho are sharing a cage on top of a table. Garland is under the table 

and Canoe is next to it. They used to be together too, but I had to separate them in November or December because Canoe was getting really aggressive. Their cages used to share a wall, and I would hear Canoe rattling it all night trying to get to him.

Here is a picture of Steve holding Canoe! It doesn't really capture how small Canoe is - he's nearly 100 grams lighter than Sophie.

Canoe is still Steve's favorite. He's very friendly, and I am trying to train him not to put his visor up when people handle him. He needs to do well in the conformation show at the hedgehog show!

Nacho only seems to like one person, but when she sees her she goes crazy. It's adorable! That's Nacho on the left. This is just after

I weighed her and just before I tried cutting her nails. It took about 20 minutes to get 1.5 paws! She is very stubborn. She currently weighs 460 grams, which is down 10g since 3/25. She also has sneezes, but only when I have her belly-up trying to get her nails or when I'm filling the sink for her bath. She still has some of the white stripe she had as a baby, and has a darker mask than Sophie but lighter than Canoe. I'm not super good with hedgehog colors, but I think she is lighter than either of her parents. 

Garland is doing well - he tried to hibernate during the drive to Boston and again at one point in January, but I was able to warm him up and he has been going strong since. He's still grumpier than any of the others and wants nothing to do with toilet paper tubes, boxes full of tissue paper 

strips, jingly balls, stuffed animals, or pretty much anything that isn't kibble or a wheel. He does like snuggling, though, and it is the cutest thing when he falls asleep on my lap with a paw sticking out. :D Here he is checking out some new stinky cat food! He didn't like it. :( 

The drive from Minneapolis to Boston was super long, but Steve and I only stopped once (in Milwaukee). We were driving through New York at about 4 in the morning when I felt something tickling my ankle and pulling on my pants leg. I looked down and Nacho was in the footwell! She and Sophie had somehow gotten out of their Sterilite bin and were running around the car. It was terrible! I couldn't find Sophie until we got to Medford.

Anyway, I'm sure I'll be taking pictures more often now that I have a working xD card. Sorry about the long and unnanounced hiatus!