By Anonymous - 03/08/2013 17:59 - United States - Santa Rosa Beach

Today, my hamster had babies. I came home just in time to witness her kick the mutilated bodies of her two babies out of her house, then crawl back in and go to sleep. Now my sister refuses to touch her and calls her a "baby-eating demon." FML
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pandalover69 26

Hamesters have been known to eat their babies, it's sad but normal.

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Jacksparrow72 21

Damn, nature you SCARY.

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ChakatBlackstar 29

I work retail...so I endorse the consumption of the young...preferably the human young.

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Raykyogrou03 12

Not as horrible as her sister eating them and vomiting them back out again like those cats from a few weeks ago

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Wizardo 33

"At first he died, now he dead" - Reginald D. Hunter

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MadisonDerp 16

The reason they eat them is because, as you probably know, hamster pups are very small and frail. So, like most animals, mothers need to protect their offspring. The parents may see many surrounding threats that could possibly kill or harm their babies. So, since the parents sometimes do not feel like they can do much, a result is that they end up eating their babies so they will not have to see and harm come to them, although eating them is probably the worst of all

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Aero_x 21

It may not be necessarily the case, but did you or anyone in the household touch the new borns? Some animals don't like the human scent on their new borns and actually abandon or murder their babies. Birds do the same thing even when a human just lingers too closely to their eggs or chicks. I once had a hamster that had babies. When my mom tried to handle them, the mother hamster bit off her babies' heads!!

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CharresBarkrey 15

That's a myth

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Aero_x 21

It's not exactly true, but it's not exactly a myth either. It just depends. I know for sure that my pet hamster and bird did them. I was young and hadn't known better, but I was fascinated by every kill met by each touch. I read it mostly depends on the animal as a behavior, you know like psychologically. Just like how some human beings are crazy weird because of peculiar events or upbringings.

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artisticninja713 13

Only two? Something tells me she already ate the others. My hamster had done this too while I was away at camp. I'd left my parents to take care of them, bad idea.

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SkyBlueCloud 21

That'd what you get for getting a rodent. Even dogs and its will kill the babies sometimes but still.... A rodent will eat it upon any time

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sweetbliss3 37

curiosity: did your sister or someone maybe touch the newborns, because hamsters usually only eat them if they smell like something other than the mother; humans. It's weird, but the mom wants nothing to do with them if that happens, so they kill them. :-/

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Aero_x 21

That's what I was saying. I googled that its not depending on the entire race of an animal, but the individual animal itself that has perhaps had a horrible encounter with a human that has caused it to act like a serial killer. It's not a myth. A hamster and bird that were passed around before my parents bought them for me as a kid had continuously massacred their young unless left untouched.

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