Mathew Perlick purchased his first hedgehog, Jezebel, from a pet store in New York and then four weeks later came back to his college dorm to five baby hedgehogs. Jezebel was a mother. “Technically ...

"She has two girls and two boys," said Roberts, who has made a business of raising and selling the playful, trendy and trouble-free African pygmy hedgehogs. She also shelters hedgehogs who have run ...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio - Hedgehogs are pretty adorable as small animals go, but as pets they're also high maintenance. Sure, they're small and they live in cages like mice, gerbils and hamsters, but ...

MANSFIELD, Ill. - Sarah Roberts lifted a little hut covering Bailey and her offspring and plucked the protective mother off her babies, four tiny hedgehogs that looked like a clump of cactus. "She has ...

GARDNER, Massachusetts (AP) - They are tiny animals with cute faces. They're covered in quills. They roll into prickly balls when they are scared. The ideal pet? Hedgehogs are steadily growing in ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Can man's best friend be replaced by a prickly pal the size of your palm? Sign up here. Busy pet lovers have been buying hedgehogs, whose nocturnal habits make them appealing to the ...

Hedgehog owners should refrain from kissing their small, spiky friends, health officials said. Since Oct. 11, people across eight states have been infected with a particular strain of salmonella, the ...

Hedgehogs may look super cute, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a warning for anyone who wants to give one of these spiky furballs a kiss and a snuggle: Don't. Ill people ...