BRWARE OF THIS BREEDER
We purchased a baby hedgehog from…read moreOtsego and all the supplies in June 2020 as a gift for my daughters birthday. I contemplated posting this review, but after seeing so many others with the same complaints, I feel I have to. We brought our sweet little guy home and immediately we noticed his gait was off, as if he was dragging his legs behind him and he fell over all the time. We thought it was because he was a baby at 7 weeks old and surely the breeder would've known something was wrong and wouldn't have sold us a sick hedgehog. We had him for 2 weeks. Long enough to completely adore his sweet little personality and that he loved to lay in our warm hands. I knew something was wrong when I found him laying in his water dish. I warmed him up, got him dry, but he just continued to worsen. I messaged the breeder for advice and was told he was too cold. We moved him, but this made no difference. Through the night he kept worsening so we got him in emergently at the vet, where he died very shortly after. Blaming myself, I requested a necropsy and informed the breeder, who was quite rude and said I don't understand how a hedgehog died at 9 weeks old. We finally got the necropsy back, and my vet said, his death was NOT our fault. He was clearly a very ill hedgehog who had herpes lesions in his mouth and lesions in his stomach, on his liver, and brain, had stomatitis, and died of respiratory failure from bordatella pneumonia, which is kennel cough in dogs.
I informed the breeder at the vets request so that she knew it's possible her other hedgehogs were also infected since herpes and bordatella are contagious. I received a response from her that she does not sell sick hedgehogs and that his death was our fault. I was not asking for a refund or another hedgehog, I was simply informing her and this was my response. She told me she would have her daughter who is a vet tech in another state, and also breeds hedgehogs would call me to discuss the necrospy. I emailed her the necropsy report, she called me once which I missed the call, I tried calling her back, she didn't answer. I left a message and I never heard from either of them again. Beware, do not buy a hedgehog from this women. They are sick, as so many others have said, and she should not be allowed to sell them. I still have the necropsy report as well, to prove this breeder is negligent.