Quilling

[horse_chic89]

My girl is almost finished her quilling. she will be 2 mths on sunday. how many more times will she quill???

Also, she pees on my almost everytime i take her out. Is there any way to train her to stop doing this???

[sarah1984]

all baby animals pee and poop ALL the time, she's to little to keep control of her bladder, you'll just have to give her time.

Taria's father is a BIG boy and he went through quilling like almost 4 times, he quilled on and off for like the first 4-5 months of his life....so I"d really just take it day by day, you dunno how big she'll get, concidering both of her parents are very good sized hedgies.

[horse_chic89]

thanks alot, its really helpful to know 2 ppl who know my hedgies parents. :) i hope that the grumpiness will stop soon, she is getting more used to me, and lets me pet her without huffing at me now!!!! oh well heres a new pic of her meeting my doggy

[sarah1984]

her father is a really big grump, so you never know she just might be like him, you never know with these guys. But we love them regardless :D

[horse_chic89]

she is getting alot better with her grumpiness, she wasn't grumpy at all when we went to see them at vanessas for the first time

[Love4Hedgies]

She is so cute! :)

[horse_chic89]

thanks

[hemi_mygirl]

Wow...she's so big. My little girl is about 3 months old, and she's only about 3/4 that size.

[yourmine]

My little guy just had his 6 month birthday last week and he appears to be going through quilling once again! He started losing a bunch of quills about two weeks ago (no bald patches though). At first I was concerned it might be mites but he wasn't really itchy and I had stopped using pine shavings a while back. He hit a growth spurt about the same time and turned into a grump again (he bit me and drew blood for the first time yesterday :( ). For a while I was really worried that he was sooooooooooo small. He's still on the small side of average but not TINY anymore.

[Steph]

They can definitely quill past the 6th month and even in to the 8th or 9th. MOST hedgies are done by 5 months or so but there is always one or two who will break that mold.

If you're handling her a lot during her quilling and using some good techniques for bringing her around she should come out of it. In my experience a grumpy parent does not always equal a grumpy baby. I have a very grumpy Albino who is also my best mom and who turns out some of my sweetest girls, I see that trend a lot, with the exception of one huffy baby we've never seen a genetic link to temperament. I know I differ somewhat in this but I just truly believe there are a lot of other factors out there that overwhelm the genetic. E.G. handling them a lot from the earliest possible time (usually 2-3 weeks old), learning what they like and providing it, living in a calm environment or being prepared if they're being taken from a calm environment in to a not so calm one, etc... I also think the amount you handle a baby during quilling and how you treat them at that stage can have a dramatic effect on their adult temperament.