
Was reading up about dwarf hamsters when I came across this:
"Although many hamsters chew on their cage bars, it is neither healthy or safe. Excessive bar chewing can cause the brain to become misaligned, in turn causing brain damage. Likewise, chewing the bars can cause a hamster's teeth to break, misaligning them. Left untreated, they will grow up into the brain, eventually killing the hamster."
Credits to http://www.hamsterific.com/CageBarChewing.cfm-Well, thanks for that cheery piece of info.
Anyway I woke up today to the squealing of my hamsters and found one humping the other.
*horrified*
Mom will skin me alive if my hamsters got pregnant.
Before I could do much, the hamsters scattered and ran around, so humper and humpee got mixed up dammit.
Spent the afternoon sexing them. Trying to sex them actually.
大头(aka 小变态) and 大大头are females.
大大大头 has unfortunately turn out to be a male.
I think.
I did witness them humping so there must be at least one male??
Tried putting my mad mama hamster and the other two girl hamsters in the same cage so 大大大头can have a cage to himself.
Hah. Fat hope.
Mama hamster pounced on 大大头 and nearly killed her.
Mad Mama.
So now Mad Mama is back in her own spacious cage happily running on her shit smeared wheel.
While my two females babies got so traumatised that they hid in their tiny house for hours.
I can't have three cages of hamsters in my house, can I?
And 大大大头can't live in my dustbin forever.
...What if 大头gets pregnant?!
Help.