Sad news... we had the first casualties of 2024. Lost a 4 year old tuxedo urchin and a 5 year old pajama cardinal. Both were not sudden, the urchin was pretty noticeable. the tines started looking untidy and it started hiding in a sheltered shadow spot over the course of a week or so, then quit moving and lost tines, at that point i knew it was the end of the road for that industrious little dude. The pajama just started getting lethargic and hiding too, then was belly up still was eating though. The other urchin and other pajamas are all happy as clams. As an avid practitioner of animal husbandry all we can hope is that for the time we get to enjoy these creatures in our lives, that they are well cared for and lack for nothing.
