Seven Hamsters, One Wheel: THE REVENGE

We put all of them in a smaller container while we cleaned their living area, and so they all attacked the wheel at once. Watch for the one we're treating for an eye infection! He looks a bit terrible, we know. We swab his eye with goop twice a day.

Seven Hamsters, One Wheel

When six baby hamsters and one mommy hamster fight for wheel supremacy, who wins?

Uh, the mom, mostly. She's twice their size.

Baby Hamsters v. Broccolis: The Revenge!!

They're sharin' broccolis! They're sharin' broccolis! They're sharin' brocco-lah-haaaa! THEY'RE SHARIN' BROCCOLAH! THEY'RE SHARIN' BROCCOLAH! They're sharin' UHN broccolaaaahhhh....

Baby Hamsters Share A Broccolis

Our hamster babies are finally old enough to wander out and about their living area themselves. Ham mommy doesn't like that very much, and will go drag them back to the nest, but ever so often we'll find them eating some food on their own. So tiny! Seriously, they're like a centimeter or two long. The video exaggerates their size. They could fit on a quarter.

Anyway, they're adorable. And there's five, we think. Five is the most we've seen all together at the same time, but there is a chance there's a sixth or more in there. But we've seen no evidence for that. They just spend most their time buried in fluff under their mom's butt, so it's not very easy to get a headcount of them.

I believe they're still blind at this point. Their eyes haven't quite opened. So they're just clawing about on the strength of their other senses. Not that adult hamster sight is incredibly great...

HamBehBehs

Now in handy convenience size - they fit in your change purse!!

Here is the first photo of our baby hams that we were able to take! They're about a week old now, having been born the day after we realized the little slut was preggers.

If you disturb her too much or cause her stress, she'll, well, eat the tiny purple turds. So, yeah, we keep our distance. But I had a moment of opportunity and took a photo today. So we finally know there's at least three! Three tiny purple turds baby angels.

They stay buried in the huge nest their mom made for them pretty much always. The mom will leave to grab food and then disappear back into it.

Man, how do these things work out? I mean, she started building a nest a few days before these kids popped out. How did she know? No one ever told her how to care for babies, but then she totally does. She even knows she has to build a nest for them.

But then, hams tend to cannibalize their young, so it's not a foolproof thi