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As a treat, or if you cannot find commercial hedgehog food, you can offer your pet low-fat cat food. Never feed your hedgehog fatty, fried, spicy or salty table foods or scraps, and use caution when offering hard food items, such as nuts, which may choke a hedgehog.
Hedgehogs can have as many as 8,000 spines on their bodies. When threatened, they curl into a ball making it painful for predators to try to eat them. A prickly hedgehog ball is not an inviting morsel of food! Hedgehogs mainly stay on the ground, but they can swim quite well and even climb trees.1  Facts about Hedgehogs: 2  When you curl up to go to sleep, you're just getting comfy. 3  When a hedgehog curls up to go to sleep, it's for protection.hen threatened, they curl into a ball making it painful for predators to try to eat them. A prickly hedgehog ball is not an inviting morsel of food! Hedgehogs mainly stay on the ground, but they can swim quite well and even climb trees.