Thinking About Getting a Pet Hedgehog? Here's What You Need to Know

You may want to scale back your dreams of a giant hedgehog family down to just one of these little critters. "Hedgehogs do better housed individually," Dr. Nelson explained. That being said, she went on to say that, "If you have two, make sure they are both female. They reproduce very quickly if opposite sex hedgehogs are housed together. Male hedgehogs are not likely to accept another male into their environment."