Q-Tips & Vet Appointments

It's been a very eventful couple of weeks. Tiggy's litter is almost over the eye goopies. I had to take one of Caramel's babies to the vet the day before Thanksgiving, because she was having an eye problem. One of her eyes was twice as big as the other and looked really nasty. So I talked to the people at HedgehogWorld, and they said that it would need the attention of a vet. So I took her in, and the vet said that it would be impossible to save the eye. She gave me some pain reliever, and said that if the hedgehog is in a lot of pain caused by the eye, they could remove it. Ouch! She thinks it could have been caused prenatally or it could have been an injury such as a spine poke. At the time I took her to the vet it was depressing because she wouldn't go out of the nesbox like her siblings. Wow, has that changed! My little brother woke me up this morning and told me that a hedgehog was loose. Guess which one? She had crawled up on top of the nestbox, over the side of the tank, jumped down, and started exploring. I think she do perfectly fine in life, even though she only has one good eye.