Cooking vegetables?

[wyvernrider18]

Do vegetables that you feed to your hedgie have to be cooked? I don't know if Shadow likes his carrots cooked, but he sure went crazy for them raw. I did cut them up small enough so he could easily eat them...

[Nancy]

Carrots should be cooked because they can get caught in the roof of their mouths or between their teeth. Same goes for an other hard vegetable that doesn't quickly soften when wet. :)

[HedgeMom]

If they are in a fine dice or shred, raw is perfectly safe, in my opinion. Sticky foods like raisins need to be avoided but hedgehogs eat hard crunchy kibbles with no problems and they are much harder than carrots.

[Nancy]

If they are in a fine dice or shred, raw is perfectly safe, in my opinion. Sticky foods like raisins need to be avoided but hedgehogs eat hard crunchy kibbles with no problems and they are much harder than carrots.
Kibble breaks down with saliva which carrots don't and if a chunk of carrot gets caught in the roof of their mouth, it won't soften.

[HedgieHaven]

Raisins ??? This was a treat lots of my hedges love.

[PrettyHate]

No raisins- can get lodged in the roof of their mouth. Same with peanuts and the like.