A second-year veterinary student examines a hedgehog while learning about care and handling techniques for companion animals at the University of Illinois Veterinary Medicine South Clinic in Urbana. A ...

Hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, and even rats have long dominated the market as preferred picks for pint-sized pets. But there's another miniature mammal that's starting to gain popularity in the pet ...

Your pet is cute, but please stop kissing it. According to the CDC, the dangers of pet germs are real and a salmonella outbreak tied to hedgehogs proves it. As far as pets are concerned, few are more ...

Beware the hedgehog, for it may give you salmonella. Pet hedgehogs have sickened two Minnesotans and nine others nationwide in an outbreak reported last week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

Jackson Anderson plucked Betsy from her bath and swaddled her prickly little body in a giant and fluffy towel. “See? She isn’t grumpy anymore,” the 13-year-old said. “Now she’s happy so she wants to ...

WASHINGTON — Having a chinchilla, hedgehog or hermit crab in Virginia’s Fairfax County makes you a scofflaw, but that could soon change. The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to advertise a public ...

Until recently, it was a crime to be prickly but loveable—if you were a hedgehog, that is. These spiny animals were banned as pets in Fairfax County until earlier this year when the Board of ...