Growing up

A few days after we discovered the babies of Snowy and Rabbit, we discovered that Betty and Jacky had their own too -- six of them to be more exact.

For a while, Kimi's room has a grand total of 15 hamsters, with 11 of them babies.  Soon, one of Snowy's died but as soon as that one went, the remaining 4 grew fast.  It wasn't the same for Betty's brood, however.  So we thought, there must have been a difference of at least four days between the births.  Sadly, it wasn't so.

Last Friday, Betty succumbed to a disease.   It could have been anything, since we could not touch the babies, the parents nor the cage until the babies are big enough.  Within the same day, one of her babies died.  Then another by morning.  We hand-ed the little ones the best we could -- each of us taking turns in feeding them throughout the day.  In a span of three days, Jacky lost his family.

At the same time, Snowy had her own losses.  She is now down to 2 pups.

The good news is:  Snowy's two white pups are going strong and they have grown so big too!  I'll post photos soon.

Anyway, Kimi was sad throughout this whole exprience.  She learned a lot about taking care of babies, hamsters and about allowing her pets to go through the experience with her.  She is growing up so fast.

And yesterday, she told me she will sone have to start werig a baby bra... sigh...