It’s Percy the hedgehog, and 4-year-old Justin Toth of Stamford got to hold and pet him on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at the Darien Nature Center. Justin was at the nature center’s Tuesday Animal Meet & Greet ...

GARDNER, Mass. (AP) — A growing number of American homes are keeping African pygmy hedgehogs as pets. Here are some questions and answers about the small animals whose backs and sides are covered with ...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio - Hedgehogs are pretty adorable as small animals go, but as pets they're also high maintenance. Sure, they're small and they live in cages like mice, gerbils and hamsters, but ...

For 25 years, Joan Lockley has run a hedgehog rescue from her Staffordshire garden. The 82-year-old says she helped more than 600 of the animals over the past 12 months from her "hosprickle" at her ...

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Mathew Perlick purchased his first hedgehog, Jezebel, from a pet store in New York and then four weeks later came back to his college dorm to five baby hedgehogs. Jezebel was a mother. “Technically ...