Comments on: The Ringworm Story – Follow up

By: Einstein

Einstein — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:41:01 +0000

Any news on Leo and Pickles? Poor poor babies.

I read this all while my little hedgie, Einstein, was sleeping peacefully in my lap. Needless to say, I was absolutely horrified by the lack of restraint from Michelle/Marius. Instead of taking the high approach, you two chose to hurl uneducated slander from multiple accounts. I’m so so grateful I live in the States. Any hedgehog breeder must be registered, and must provide their registered number to the buyer. Shame on the guilty party. If you can’t afford to care for your animals, you should NOT breed them.

I work with an animal rescue in Michigan, and every day we get reports of some whacked out nut jobs trying to breed animals with absolutely no care. I’ve adopted two bassets myself who were both very sick from the lack of care from their owners/breeders. I paid everything out of pocket, resulting in over $14,000 in the past two years.

I honestly, truly, dearly hope that Leo and Pickles are healthy and happy. I would love to see an update!

By: Catje

Catje — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:32:12 +0000

This has quite a fascinating read! I actually ended up on this site while googling “do ducks commit suicide”. What a long, strange trip it’s been…

By: Court

Court — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:00:13 +0000

I’m considering buying a hedgehog in a few years. I came to your blog to see what kind of information I could get on hedgies and see if they are right for me. I’m very glad you posted something like this, I never knew that could happen! Can you give me a website that lists trusted Hedgehog Breeders? I would hate to have to deal with a dodgy breeder such as Heavenlyhogs. Thanks so much!

By: Dydan

Dydan — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:15:37 +0000

Wowsa! Like some of the other posters here, I got drawn to the site by searching “hedgehogs as pets”. I have a friend in the UK who does volunteer work for Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue and they recently got a baby hedgehog in to rehabilitate. After my boyfriend and I squealed over the adorable picture of the curled up baby hoggie in my friend’s hand, we Googled our way to this site.

Astonished doesn’t even begin to describe how we feel.

After reading about Michelle (and her multiple personalities), I’m firmly convinced she is an animal hoarder. I don’t doubt for one minute she loves animals and probably feels she is caring for them as lovingly as possible. However, there is no way one human being can care for so many creatures effectively AND still have time to care for 2 disabled children and an elderly parent. My boyfriend’s brother is severely autistic, and I’ve experienced firsthand how much time and effort goes into his care. There is no way on God’s green earth I could care for him 24/7 and take care of hedgehogs, rats, sugar gliders and every other creature Michelle is claiming to own.

At some point, something has to suffer. Either your children, or your animals. And frankly, neither deserve that. Do yourself (and everyone) a favor and get out of the animal husbandry business before more innocent creatures suffer under your “care”.

By: Random Anonymous

Random Anonymous — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:29:39 +0000

Hahaha, holy crap.

Good read.

By: Foxinthecknkp

Foxinthecknkp — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:31:05 +0000

I really can’t believe I just spent the better part of 3 hours reading through all this. I found this article because I WAS considering a Pygmy Hedgie as a pet but frankly after reading all this, I think I’ll go rescue a mutt from the shelter than risk dealing with a potentially “dodgy breeder”. Seems like I might have better luck. Personally I find what Michelle (and pseudonyms) have done to Ian, Julie, and Chaz to be morally reprehensible. I don’t live in the EU or the UK but frankly after reading this story I seriously wanted to make a trip to pay a visit to Michelle with a whole truckload of ammunition and a good rifle. Sorry…the Texan in me got out a little.

To Ian, Julie, and Chazybaby; I sincerely wish you all the best of luck with your pets and hope this post finds you all in good health and happiness.

To Spike, Steph, and a few others I don’t want to scrollback to name; I thank you all for the informative discourse on this particular “dodgy breeder” and I thoroughly enjoyed reading your posts. After Michelle’s rather painful spelling, grammer, and frank illiteracy, your postings were a balm to this old soul that at least learned American if not the Queen’s proper English.

To Michelle (and her associated companions/voices/personalities/sheer-crazy); Lady (and I use that word so loosely there’s a whorehouse here in Texas taking offense to it) you are quite possibly the most pitiful soul I’ve read about. So pitiful in fact that like a snake-bit dog or a too old to hunt faithful hound; you should just be taken out back behind the barn, away from where the kids might see, and given a merciful shot to the noggin. Real shame you’ve already bred and likely will continue to do so.

By: cascat

cascat — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:03:29 +0000

Wow, ,after reading all this im soo glad that Heavenly Hogs is not here in America. Like really, she runs around screaming how rich her “partner’ is and even needs him to come up here to defend her. It seems like all she wants to do is create more attention for herself you can clearly see this as she posts 3 comments all about 10 to 15 mins apart without anyone responding. As for the owners that take in these hedge hogs id advise you to get them checked out immediately. I find it sad that ANYONE that says raising hedgehogs is there passion could ever treat such a hedgehog in this manner. There is even proof that she sent Chazbaby pictures of the infection but yet never went to the vets to get it checked out? And if she is sooooo rich why is it that she couldn’t just hand over the money? Any pet lover or breeder would do it, i mean if your a good one. No breeder would just shoo an issue like this away. It just leads me to wonder, hedgehogs are not as difficult to take care of as 2 autistic children. I do not belive this woman and her partner should have any rights to breed or sell hedge hogs they cleary have noo idea how to take care of. And as for your “fact” that ringworm is everywhere.. is like saying that staff infection is everywhere or worms. The fact is for ringworm to get as bad as it did in the pictures u sent to chaz, the hedge hog had to have had it since birth. It got worse due to your filthy living conditions and stacking these hedgehogs on top of one another. And for your “partner” my family has been remodeling for a few months now and never has our place looked as bad as what has been explained here. If your such an animal/hedgehog lover please do them a HUGE favor and leave them to the wild or to people who will actually care for them.

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:36:21 +0000

As a after thought?????? What in the hell are you talking about? If you turned down reimbursement for you dogs vet bills, well, then, you are just stupid. When a breeder sells an animal, there is normally a bill of health somewhere in the deal stating that the animal is in good health. It is your job to have the animal inspected by a veterinarian, and if the animal is not a fit and healthy animal, it is the BREEDER’S RESPONSIBILITY to either 1) pay the vet bill 2) offer a replacement (although that should be the worst case scenario). If you sold a sick animal, it is YOUR problem, not the new owners. If the animal became sick after an amount of time that you sold it, it would be the new owners problem. The fact that you say you didn’t ring the breeder and ask for a refund..and “how rediculous is that?” ….well you must just be stupid. I’m assuming you are this Michelle person, because the most retarded posts on here came from her. And leeah and Marius and Kay and Adam and whoever else you claim to be. You are not fooling anyone, I hope you know, and why you even try to….the entire world knows how retarded you are, because with all these moronic posts you keep posting you look dumber and dumber. Your “kids” are retarded OBVIOUSLY because you passed on the retarded gene lol!!! If you didn’t receive any compensation from the “breeder” you purchased the puppy from, that just proves that you are even MORE stupid than you have already proved to be. Just crawl under a rock and die. But send out the checks first for re imbursing the unsuspecting customers you ripped off so that you don’t rot in hell.

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:04:22 +0000

WOW. My thought, as I’m sitting here in my living room in Florida, after reading this story I just stumbled upon, is that Heavenly Hogs should be re named Hideous Hogs! WOW! Heavenly Hogs, if I was your customer, I would have smashed all the windows in your house, slit your tires, and lit a bag of dog crap and left it on your front porch. But it wouldn’t matter, because when you are ignorant, nothing helps except an education. So go get one. All of the posts on here from “Heavenly Hogs” sounds moronic and uneducated. How the hell do you run ANY kind of business? It’s obvious that you have no degree. You come across as not even passing high school! Basic business ethic tells you that if you send out a defective (or unhealthy in your case) product, you are responsible for repairing or replacing (or in your case, PAYING THE VET BILL) IMMEDIATELY. Does common sense not tell you that if you are not using ethical business procedures that your customers get PISSED OFF, meaning you get a BAD REPUTATION, and you eventually GO OUT OF BUSINESS. There is no law preventing gossip, and obviously your consumers heard by word of mouth (or internet like myself) that you are selling a defective product. That’s what happens. So you sold a sick animal. You’re sorry. Who cares???? PAY THE DAMN BILL RETARDS. In fact, you should be SO ashamed, that you should write a check for EXTRA to compensate for this man’s stress and inconvenience. If you can’t handle that, then grow up, stop SELLING ANYTHING TO ANYBODY and go get a degree in business management.

By: Lover of the adorable

Lover of the adorable — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:24:50 +0000

Goodness! I just finished reading through most of the posts! I assume by now Ian and Julie have just given up getting their refund, if they haven’t gotten it already? That’s really sad. Thank you for bringing the issue to everyone’s attention, so that if people do decide to buy they are even more educated!