Can I give my hedgehog canned cat food?

Can I give my hedgehog canned cat food?

Dry and wet cat food can be offered to your hedgehog. A chicken or meat dry cat food may come with high protein to keep your hedgehog active and strong. This can be a highly recommended option to be part of your hedgehog diet. On the other hand, wet cat food can also be recommended.

What can I feed my sick hedgehog?

Rice baby cereal, Vanilla flavored Ensure (Ensure is very helpful for giving the hedgehog an added boost along with vitamins), baby food chicken or other types for a variety, crushed Select Diet hedgehog food, thinned Hills a/d (obtained from your vet).

What kind of cat food can you feed a hedgehog?

High quality, poultry-based cat biscuits seem to be the number one choice among hedgehog owners. Poultry-based dry cat food high in protein and low in fat needs to make up the majority of a hog’s diet. Moist cat food, insects, fruit & veg, boiled eggs and baby food are used to supplement a pet hedgehog’s diet.

Can hedgehogs eat tuna cat food?

Statement – ‘You shouldn’t feed hedgehogs fish flavoured cat food’. False – Whilst some hedgehogs do not find fish flavoured food particularly palatable, there is no nutritional difference between fish flavoured food and any other flavour.

How do I get my cat to stop eating my hedgehog food?

Adding bricks or walls within the feeding station, as shown below, will make it harder for larger animals like cats to get to the food. Putting a dish of water at the entrance will deter cats as they don’t like to get their paws wet! The video below shows a hedgehog navigating around the barriers to get to the food.

Is it OK to feed dried mealworms to hedgehogs?

We DO NOT recommend feeding dried meal worms to hedgehogs, they contain almost no nutritional value and can harm their health. The x-ray of the entire hedgehog shows the effects of feeding large quantities of mealworms, she had severe metabolic bone disease.