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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

OMG

(Oh, hey, 95% sure Athena, our hamster, is pregnant. She's nesting, there's a huge lump in her tummy which is MOVING CRAZILY, and she used to be the SMALL one, so uh oh. Which means Boomer is a boy! Make as many Original Series jokes as you like. Us, we're busy getting the cage clean in preparation and deciding whether to keep the little sister-fucker in there.)

Boomer & Athena

It is our new family members, Boomer and Athena!

(We are nerds.)

(And because we didn't like the names Susan and Sharon, which would have been a more dorky reference than nerdy.)

(Though I guess we kind of ended up with Sharons either way.)

I must bring this darling ham to the attention of the wurld!

You can find Pumpkin and many more here: EricFlikr

THIS IS TOTALLY SNICKERS

~anan

Pfft. This is totally the kind of loser Annie would want to date.

Snks out~

cute practeece

so 2 prepare for my time in the spotlight, i am posting pictures of famous hams that i want to be like! i ham just studying and studying all the cute things so i can have my pose set!



anan

Ahh ... memory lane ...

Look how small our babies used to be ...



~maggie

HamCAM: 4.07.08

Feeding the hams

Hey, hamster experts! This is our second round of trying to feed Snkrs medicine through a dropper, and she is getting increasingly uncooperative. We try to hold her in a cloth while we do it, both so she won't bite us and so she won't associate us with the feeding, but it is getting near impossible to feed her, and she just ends up ornery and traumatized.

Any recommendations? Thanks in advance!

Vet visit #2

Our hamster's hiccups came back for a short while this morning, so I quickly got an appointment with our vet. He believes it may be early signs of gastrointestinal disease, which leads to "wet tail," so medicine was prescribed accordingly. Her poop is still solid, and I've seen no sign of diarrhea yet, plus she's still eating normally, so we may have caught it early enough. I have huge thanks for the awesome few of you who pointed out the potential seriousness of her symptoms.

LIVE FOREVER, SNKRS!!!!1

Conflict

You know, Annie was whining the other day that the site wasn't getting enough attention, and mom was explaining that it was probably because it was only about us, (to which I was like, duh, who wants to see the whinings of two hamsters) or maybe because there wasn't enough conflict.

I totally have to disagree with her on that because there is totally some conflict in our cage. Why, this morning, Annie and I completely bit each other and squeaked and then mom and dad separated us and then we stopped. It was crazy. God I wish I had some peanut butter to take the edge off.

You know, as annoying as my sister is, and I would never hurt her like this, sometimes I know how Fred and Rose feel:




snkrs out

*hic hic hic hic*

Our hamster has hiccups!





At least, that's what we settled on after freaking out and thinking she might be choking and attempted a tiny hamster Heimlich. But no, all she needs is some water.