Debi babysat for us so we could go to a wedding. Thanks Debi. Right after she arrived, Tara exclaimed that her hamster had babies. Yep, the very same hamster that the pet store attendant assured us was not in the family way. And guess what? It gets better. The other one is almost certainly about to have her own babies. Seven little critters came into the world today. Jay, Debi and I tried to help Goldie when she dropped one. We know not to touch them. But we tried to rearrange the cage. BIG MISTAKE. Goldie started freaking out and appeared to eat her babies. This was right at the time that we had to take Em to her sleep over and go to the wedding. Poor Debi was stuck here with the mess. The good news is that she was just stuffing the babies in her mouth. She spit them out and is apparently a very good mother.
Ugh. The pet store lady said we could bring the babies back to the store if on the very unlikely case the hamsters were pregnant. I asked about that when we bought them. But my dad said the babies won't survive without the mother. The pet store would just kill them.
Ideas? I was told the brothers and sisters will breed very soon. Eww. and oh no.
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I am starting to believe there is no such thing as a non-pregnant female hamster for sale. :)
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