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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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
Today, I woke up to one of my hamsters cannibalizing the other. 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, I insulted my younger sister's hamster. She then smashed me with a stool. 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 was looking after a hamster for a friend. My dog ate it. FML
Today, my little sister was in charge of doing the vacuuming, when she decided our hamster had "dust on his back". 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, I was babysitting my neighbour's six hamsters. My cat got in the room and opened the cage. I came home to no hamsters in sight and a very satisfied looking cat. FML
Today, I got a hamster against my wife's will. I can't wait until she wakes up and I have to tell her it's loose in the house. FML
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pandalover69 26
Hamesters have been known to eat their babies, it's sad but normal.
Jacksparrow72 21
Damn, nature you SCARY.
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Comments (129)
Deresius 12
Agreed, why is this even an FML?
ChakatBlackstar 29
I work retail...so I endorse the consumption of the young...preferably the human young.
Raykyogrou03 12
Not as horrible as her sister eating them and vomiting them back out again like those cats from a few weeks ago
Wizardo 34
"At first he died, now he dead" - Reginald D. Hunter
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
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!!
CharresBarkrey 16
That's a myth
allforus 5
Thank you, Charres! Geez
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.
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.
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
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. :-/
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.
J3NNI3LYNN 9
Well then