Hamsters

Do you remember the other day when we bought 2 female baby hamsters........






well........................





.........they had BABIES!




Just before church today, Callyn came running to me and opened his hand and there was the cutest little baby hamster! It had its stripes and was about 4cm long but its eyes were closed! I said "Where did you get that?". He calmly answered, "In the age. The female hamster gave birth."

I was so excited and we ran to show Daddy! We didn't have time to look for more but the mommy was pleased to have her baby back and carried it up into the wheel where she had made a nest!

When we got home later we discovered another one. So I guess we didn't get 2 females! Now what do we do with this happy family. Even the daddy is helping to build the nest. How can we split up a happy family. But if we don't we might end up with a family of 100 before the end of the year. The gestation period is 21 days and they can have 14 babies in a litter. Luckily we only have 2 although maybe there were more! So tomorrow Callyn says we must go to the pet shop where we bought the hamsters and tell the 'aunty" that she made a mistake! We'll ask her advice and maybe sell some babies back to her!

Callyn had said that he wanted a boy hamster so I told him today that his hamster was actually a boy. He argued a bit and said we bought a girl but I told him you can only get babies if you have a mommy and a daddy hamster so his must be the daddy. I am waiting in fear for the next question............