Above is Dexter and to the right is Patrick
Last weekend a few of our rescue hamsters went to their loving forever homes. Patrick the little handsome dwarf hamster, went home. He's is overly adorable and a mush for attention. Also adopted were Chief the syrian hamster and Dexter the dwarf hamster, Dexter was a tad older than the rest, but he still won a new forever home with his charm and good looks.
Hamsters are mainly surrendered to us because they are a litter of babies that was unplanned and unwanted. And we take in up to 10 to 13 babies, and sometimes Mama as well, especially if the litter isn't weaned yet. We then separate babies ( male from female) at the appropriate time so no more babies come about. We are so happy when a hamster is adopted and goes home, they were once unwanted and now they are happy and loved. All the people that opt to adopt are wonderful in my eyes.
Received a call today, and someone tells me that I didn't get back to her fast enough, because she needed a hamster NOW. Ugh, anyway, she bought a female hamster from a pet store that was mixed in with about 50 other hamsters as she describes, males too. And 2 female gerbils, she said they were the last of the gerbils, but I am sure the pet store had more at one point and there were males. So she currently could have a pregnant hamster and two pregnant gerbils! What was she thinking! After I told her she could have up to 30 plus babies on her hands, and will need to have about 8 to 10 cages, tanks on hand when it comes time to seperating them all
when they are old enough to impregnate each other. I told her she could give us the babies when it comes time , we'll take care of them , we can accommodate them and we can find them homes. She says , and I quote " we'll keep them all here and you can find them the homes." Pardon??!! I can see this being a disaster and I have a feeling I won't find them homes quick enough for her, and they are all going to wind up at the pet store. Time will tell.
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