Echidna Notes

[den]

1- Fips is rapidly approaching 700g. I am adding ICBINT to his milk so he gets used to chewing lumpy bits. Over the next week I'll reduce the milk and increase the meat. Right now he's eating 100g+ every feed.
2- His spines are long and very sharp.
3- When he doesn't want to be picked up, he curls up to present his spines and pushes forward. Tonight he caught my hand between the hard plastic wall of his cage and his spines.
4- Very sharp.
5- One pin-prick on the palm bleeds a little bit.
6- 20 pin-pricks on the palm produce a surprising amount of blood. It is also itchy and painfull all at once.

Comments

[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

ouchies

[tigermorph.livejournal.com]

Owwie!

They have little rubber tips for cat claws....don't they have the equivalant for echidna spines? ;-)

(enjoying the image of Den trying to get a pile of tiny rubber socks on Fips' spines....)

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Ow, pointy!

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

OUCH!
Fips has passed test 2: Demonstration of Defenese!
Whaddaya do when you can't run away? Show 'em the spines and make them pay!

[tavella.livejournal.com]

But they are good instincts to have to survive in the wild!

[keethrax.livejournal.com]

As a one time owner of a pygmy hedgehog, I feel your pain.

He was incredibly skilled in wiggling the muscles under the particular spines in contact to ensure good penetration. If he was curled up, angry, and in the palm of your hand, you could actually watch him wiggle and sink deeper and deeper...

Still miss the little bastard though.

[ngarewyrd.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it's time to get out the welding gloves again

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

Yeek. I had that sometimes with Mr. Cranky when he didn't want up. Echidna spines look even meaner than hedgehog spines.

My condolences.