It's Just Me, Justine: Wednesday Whatever

I don't think I've mentioned the latest addition to my family, Nova the hedgehog! The boyfriend and I were discussing pets one day and were listing off different animals. I was like, "Oh hey! What about a hedgehog?" and he was all like, "OMG! Yes!"

So I randomly decided to check Craigslist, and sure enough, someone was selling their four month old hedgehog! We met up one day in a nearby city and made the exchange, like a drug deal going on right in front of a gas station. The lady who was selling him was selling the hedgehog and their parrot so that her daughter could get a pet pig. Sounds to me like this daughter is a bit spoiled. Maybe not if the daughter had to give up two other pets. *shrug* She told me that her daughter named him Casanova because he was born on Valentine's Day. It was cute, but way cliche so the boyfriend and I just call him Nova.

I have plenty of crazy stories about him. For something so small, he's quite the trouble maker.

One time we let him out to play around the living room. He found his way under an arm chair. Our furniture doesn't have netting under them. There's a ledge just at the base of the chair that he climbed on and I figured he'd be alright. Next thing I know he's climbed all the way up into the top of the arm of the chair. The boyfriend and I are left with lifting up the chair so that he can pull Nova out of the chair. It's safe to say I have now "hedgie-proofed" that arm chair with duct tape.

Lately he's been having wild parties at night without me. The other day, I found him sleeping in his food bowl, see picture below:

About twenty minutes later, I hear him munching away. lol

Yesterday morning, I woke up to find his "cage" (his cage is just a rather large plastic tub) completely trashed. I couldn't find his bowl (which is some pretty thick/heavy glass) until I realized it was on the far side of his wheel hidden in the bedding. All the food had been dumped out. His water bottle was completely out of the hooks that support it and it was laying in the bedding. His pringles can tube was halfway across his cage as well. I just. I don't even.

Enjoy some more pictures of my havoc wreaking hedgie, though!