Hamster babies update

[trystinn]

So far, all eleven are doing quite well. We have two runts, both of which are just barely beginning to open their eyes.

Right now, the babies are very active - wandering around the tubes and cages, one apparently never got back to the nest and spent the night with Aunt Frick. We managed to get Wander (as we've now named him) back in with his family.

So pic'y goodness:

"How Mommy Frack tries to keep them all safe and sound:



Nanny Gracie: "I want to hug them, and kiss them, and call them George!"



Our tiniest runt, MiniWeeble:



The larger of the two runts, Weeble:



Chorus Line :)


And yes, we do spend hours watching them travel through the tubes, laughing our asses off, why do you ask?"

Comments

[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

If I lived much, MUCH closer, I'd be over there laughing my ass off too.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Yes, you would!

Its hysterical - they get up in one of the tubes, then a few have a nap attack, which acts like a clog so no other hamsters can get by. Then Mom will decide she's got to move the mass, so she'll back up, then sort of ram them to get them moving. However, it doesn't work terribly well, and she may end up doing it a dozen or so times before they end up moving. Nipping is used rarely, as its not terribly effective.

There's a sort of controled descent of the wee ones down a tube, they splay out their legs like they are free falling and try to keep from wooshing down the tubes. Its a bit of a "50-50" as to how well that technique works. They can climb the tubes, because we have the bubble kind for dwarf hamsters, but they often end up sliding back down. Two steps forward, one step back, essentially.

Really fun stuff, is when Auntie decides to get a hamster back up a tube. She gets behind them, has them straddle her nose, then runs up the tube carrying the baby.

No wonder Mom is plugging the exercise wheels to keep them in - its a 24 hour job keeping eleven babies together. Which is hysterical, because she moves them from wheel to wheel - and we've got three, so that's a lot of baby commuting!

[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

You really should be taking some video footage of this. Some of us have to live vicariously!

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

hahaha I love Satchel...

[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

It's a great strip.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

I don't have any way to get video footage. Perhaps when Dad comes to visit (if he ends up coming) in May. He's a softie for buying me new techno toys.

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

They've gotten so BIG

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Its shocking how quickly they've grown. I'm trying to remind myself that we've got another week, maybe two before they go off to the petstore and new homes.

Gonna miss them :(

However, on the bright side (mischevious side, really) - there's a wild male rabbit hanging about our girl's outdoor den. So depending on how motivated he is, we may have two female rabbits pregnant by the end of the month.

Cannot decide if that's a good thing or not!