Sometimes, we have to be hypocrites. Sometimes, we have to do exactly what we tell people not to do, for the sake of the hedgehog. This is Goon. Goon was surrendered in November of 2019 (literally only days after we got Maggie, and he was the third hedgehog that week). The first time I picked him up, he bit me. The first time Connie held him, he took a chunk out of her palm. In the near year we have had him, he has not let up on the biting. Yet, I’ve found that otherwise, he is very sweet. I fear that something happened in his life that has caused some form of PTSD, or something along the lines of. My fear is that someone dropped him, and he latches on so he doesn’t fall, or someone hurt him... I will never know, and even the vet who saw him was pretty stumped. Our usual methods of getting a hog to let go, and even to eventually stop biting, have not worked, so we are compromising. Now, in order to be able to handle him, and play with him, I have to wear gloves and long sleeves, should he ever decide to have a snack. This goes against everything I’ve ever told people to do, for it is so vital for a hedgehog to smell their owners in order to get used to their smell, and begin associating it with good things. I’ve decided to give him a second chance, and a forever home. Goon will be staying in the HuffyPuffs family from now on. I don’t feel comfortable letting him go to anyone else with this bad habit of his, because not everyone else is prepared for the responsibility (or the pain) of a biting hedgehog. Welcome to the HuffyPuffs family, #goonhedgie https://www.instagram.com/p/CGSqKOSlnPm/?igshid=qtwmb1qltmas
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