Today, my hamster gave birth. The babies were very cute and I couldn't resist petting one. Apparently touching a baby hamster will cause it's mother to reject and devour it. I am now know in my family as "The Hamster Slaughterer." FML
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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
Today, I showed my family my new pet hamster. At the sight of him, my grandmother, who I had no idea hated rodents, let out a loud screech, causing my usually docile hamster to bite me and piss in my cupped hand. FML
Today, my new roommate decided to put his pet hamster in the same cage as my beloved hamster. Apparently he wanted them to make hamster babies. They are both males. His hamster attacked mine and tore it to pieces. I just finished cleaning up the mess. FML
Today, I woke up to one of my hamsters cannibalizing the other. FML
Today, I thought my hamster might be lonely, so I went to the pet shop and bought a new one to keep him company. The new hamster killed the old one. FML
Today, my sister brought her class hamster home from school. Somehow it escaped from its cage, and ran into my room. My boyfriend, thinking it was a mouse, stomped on it. I'm stuck cleaning hamster guts from my carpet, and have to explain to a kindergarten class what happened to their pet. FML
Today, my mom wanted to surprise me by buying me a hamster. When I got into her car, I was actually surprised and even said, "Hi" to the hamster. When we got home, the hamster was dead. FML
Today, I was looking after a hamster for a friend. My dog ate it. FML
Today, I found out my creepy, obsessive neighbor got a pet hamster and named it after me. He has been telling all sorts of stories about his hamster using my name, and he just told me in detail how it died of heart attack. FML
Today, my kittens hunted and killed their first prey. My hamster. FML
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Goobian 3
Today I was born, and this strange creature towered over my mother and my siblings, and touched one of my siblings. Later my mother decided to eat the sibling that the creature touched. Now I am terrified of being petted. FML
Bumlove89 0
I'm sorry to hear that. I honestly didn't know that fact either. I don't blame you because you didn't know and therefore didn't purposely do it.
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Tonyzee 0
LOOKIE here. What i found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivvb8O-8c7E&feature=related
J0su8181 0
Dumbass. If you touch any animals babies then the mom will kill it. You deserved that 100%.
sleepykid00 2
I didn't even know that the mother will eat its babies, if they were touched by something else and I've had generations of hamster breeding (long story). I only know that you don't touch another baby when it comes to other species. It's like petting a cub with the mother nearby; i'll be surprised if you make it out alive.
simplewhimsy 0
This is why you either get all of one gender or read up on breeding habits/traits of the animal you have chosen as a pet. It is your responsibility as a pet owner to take care of them. You failed this time. But, you have learned, and now you have a reason to go look up more information on hamsters so you don't make that big of a mistake again.
YLS 0
To the people saying "WELL HE MAY HAVE BEEN SOLD TWO 'FEMALES' AND NOT KNOWN ONE WAS MALE!!!" If you have ever seen a male rodent, you know damn well that it's male. Those things have balls bigger than their heads. Also, pet stores now generally keep all rodents separated by sex. It would take buying from a shit store to accidentally get the wrong sex, in which case it's another YDI.
delphina 0
Who ever said that she bred it? A lot of pet stores get the sex of the animal wrong and you can end up with a boy and a girl instead of two of the same gender and you wouldn't know until the hamster got pregnant. God, you guys are so judgmental and accusatory. And you would pet a recently born puppy, so you wouldn't really think twice about petting a hamster unless you knew.
Tsukasa_fml 0
This is why you research how to deal with a pregnant pet.
sargent5 0
DEVOUR it??? That is so disgusting...ugh! I hope you didn't have to watch...
erinmariehall 0
I had hamsters when I was younger and I was always told by pet store owners that babies have to be removed a short time after birth because the mother will devour them even if you DON'T touch them... *shrugs* May not have been your fault.
iamspartacus2 0
And you would think that the process of natural selection would do away with those cannibalistic genetics. Like people who try Meth. That's just God's way of getting retards off of the planet.