do you sell hedgehogs if so how much?

Kendel Baker | Apr 3, 2020 | Category: Pet store

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Address: 831 Fairport Road Country Club Plaza, East Rochester, NY 14445, USA

Pet World (Owner) | Apr 4, 2020

No, we no longer can sell hedgehogs. A USDA rule change a few years back added hedgehogs, sugar gliders, and prairie dogs to the list of mostly wild animals requiring a USDA licensed facility to sell them. Very few pet stores in the US are USDA licensed as the paperwork requirements that spill over to other animals are pretty excessive, like tracking every mouse and rat sold as to purchaser identity information. So we gave up hedgehogs at that time as it only affected our hedgehogs. Be sure if you are looking for a hedgehog, which do make good pets, that you buy from a USDA licensed source and not somebody operating under the radar illegally. Also be aware of the recent salmonella outbreak in hedgehogs (just Google CDC hedgehog outbreak). Like many animals, hedgehogs can carry salmonella. It's not dangerous to own a hedgehog, you just need to be aware to wash your hands after handling, monitor kids,keep it and it's materials away from cooking areas & immune compromised people, etc.

Megan Pedersen | Apr 4, 2020

They do not sell hedgehogs. You can get one at the reptile festivals for 150 a piece.

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