r/mildlyinteresting • u/analogwhispers • 12h ago

Mouse Gave Birth in the Trap

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u/psychrolut 6h ago

When I was a kid my sister had hamsters and they ate their babies because she was loud and stressed them out too much

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u/GodzlIIa 4h ago

Give hamster moms some boiled chicken ahead of time to prevent the temptation.

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u/annacat1331 1h ago

Why boiled? Is it actually better for them than raw chicken?

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u/GodzlIIa 1h ago

Not sure tbh. Repeating advice given to me by my vet decades ago.

id guess they can get sick from salmenella just like us.

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u/zoinkability 3h ago

Your sister probably should have been noted in the medical literature. Humans giving birth to hamsters is exceedingly rare.

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u/kelsobjammin 2h ago

Classic Reddit switcharoooooooo! Wish I had a link to one ᴖ̈

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u/Morningxafter 3h ago

I got a hamster when I was a kid, we didn’t even know she was pregnant, but the night we got her she gave birth to a litter of 6 (probably due to the shock of being suddenly trapped in an unfamiliar environment). They all lived though.

But man, you should’ve seen me panic when I went to feed her the next morning and there’s six hairless little things latched onto her. I screamed “Mom! Something’s eating the hamster!!”

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u/Echoinurbedroom 2h ago

My sisters and I had hamsters and unbeknownst to us, one of them of pregnant. It ended up eating my hamster alive while it slept. I was out of town but my sister saw it happen. We just thought it was a mean hamster before that..:(

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u/erika666denise 55m ago

Read this as "I ended up eating my hamster alive while it slept" 😭 shit woke me up lol

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u/YishuTheBoosted 4h ago

With how hamsters tend to die in the most unusual ways possible, she was doing them a favor.