I have just got back from my summer holiday with my family, and we stopped to pickup the hamsters from friends of the family that had agreed to look after Iggy and Bob.
I went upstairs with my sister and was immediately able to see some pink objects moving around in the hamster house. My sister ran to see our parents claiming that there were baby hamsters in the cage.
My parents would not believe my sister, because 2 boy hamsters cannot have babies. My dad looked inside the house and confirmed that Bob was indeed feeding her litter. The pups could only just be seen underneath their mother, and Iggy was running around very excitedly.
An emergency cage was quickly made and Iggy was separated from his young family, in case he chose to kill the pups, if the scent on the babies was affected by human smells.
Bob or Bobbi as she is now known is being cared for by Chris, who has previously raised Hamsters and other rodents before. My mum and dad think that this is the best thing for Bobbi, but now that we have been home for 2 days, my sister is missing Bobbi very much. It will be at least 4 weeks before Bobbi can come home.
The number of pups is between 5 and 6, and so far Chris would like to keep 2 as payment for rearing them, and my sister and I would like to keep 2 babies as companions for the separated Iggy and Bobbi.
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