So make sure that you clean your hedgehog at least once in 1 month. Hedgehogs are generally clean animals, and if the habitat is kept clean, other grooming will be required less frequently. It is usually shiny and squidgy, and may be tapered at one end. TIPS FOR GIVING YOUR HEDGEHOG A BATH- If your hedgehog stinks and you are new to this process of giving a hedgehog a bath you can use the following tips- This means if you remove any environmental factors, they'll never make much of a stink. It may also not smell much because hedgehog poop smell is usually stronger and may mask out the pee smell. A high worm burden will often put a hedgehog off eating. Normally black in colour, hedgehog droppings may contain berry pips and shiny fragments from insect body parts. Another common reason for hedgehogs to smell is a lack of cleaning. When I fed him the 40% protein cat food pieces his poop was grainy looking at wet. Hedgehog Poop. I know poop smells but it doesn't seem like such a small animal could produce such strong smelling poo. If you’ve confined your hedgehog to a cage and you do not clean the cage on a regular basis then the poop and urine accumulated inside can begin to smell. Similar to how a dog will roll in a dead animal carcass or feces to mask its own scent (to sneak up on predators), a hedgehog may be doing the same. After the first day i realized that the fecal matter smelled extremely bad and had a strong odor. Hedgehogs with lungworm can have a terrible deep cough like a smoker’s cough. Hedgehog poo is sausage-like in shape, like that of a small carnivore. Badger poo So my question is does your hedgehog's poop reek as well? Before you know it, the hedgehog will invariably after eating and drinking, pee and poop. My hedgehog is going on 5 weeks old and he's now eating a mix of his standard hedgehog food and cat food that's 23% protein and 9% fat. i have never smelled something this bad coming from a small animal like a hedgehog and the texture of the poop … I purchased a hedgehog from a woman off of craigslist. Hedgehogs are naturally pretty odorless animals. Do not worry about your hedgehog eating its own poop, this is not a behavior hedgehogs exhibit. Look out for hedgehog poo on garden lawns and school fields. Do you think this is the case? Fluke can cause excessive hyperactivity and the poo to smell particularly horrid. It is normal for the feces to smell if the pet is consuming a diet that lacks vital nutrients. Since hedgehogs tend to do this when they encounter new smells, many believe it is a type of self-defense technique. It mostly contains pips from the berries they eat, and occasionally remains of an insect. It's almost unbearable lol. The pee at this stage may not smell as it’ll just be a puddle on the cage’s plastic floor. Unlike the pointy edges of fox scat, the hedgehog scat is tapered at one end and curved at the other. Having fish in their diet can also result in really stinky poop which in turn stink up the whole cage pretty badly.. Apart from fish diet, soft foods are another contributing factor to smelly hedgehog stools as well. Soft food generally produces softer stools because of moisture hence also carry a more prominent lasting smell. Normal hedgehog poo will be lovely and firm and dark brown/black. Hedgehog’s scat is shaped like a small sausage and is black and shiny in appearance. This isn't to say you won't smell anything if you get close to them, but we would never consider it a “bad” smell… Someone else mentioned he may have some sort of intestinal infection. I can smell fluke before I see it under the microscope. One of such is their diet. 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