I‘m glad you have an experienced rescuer helping you too, that helps so much. We were clueless about a lot - even the flea thing - we had no idea how many fleas were on the hedgie till we took it to the lady here and she sprayed it with flea killer - it was like a mass exodus! And my husband was totally clueless what to feed it. I told him it would like wet cat food and the rescuer confirmed that. He thought it would eat fruit!