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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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Top comments
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)
stoych 19
Anyone else noticed a couple of these cannibalistic FML's have come up recently?? I'm not letting my dog sleep in bed now just in case he gets a taste for human flesh.....
annoy_me 9
Might want to consider this- maybe she decided her habitat was not fit for babies? or some kind of imbalance that would not happen naturally, if hamsters always ate their babies naturally they would never have had a chance.
QU33NOFAWKWARD 16
What has been seen can not be unseen
Mimitrixie 11
Oh I was eating when I read that! Now all I can think about is the half eaten carcasses of baby hamsters! *shudder*
superman3212 8
research does wonders
srogue74 5
man, now i gotta go search for this on youtube.
Messenger117 0
If you put a pillow case or something around the cage to give her privacy she won't do that.
Prissysaurus 3
The only reason for a mother hamster to eat her young is that she was bothered by someone. I worked at a pet store and when our hamsters were pregnant we instantly put up cardboard and didn't bother them at all.
DWynter 11
Hmm, yep. That sounds like a hamster. Happened to me when I was young. Didn't even know my hamster was pregnant. Picked her up one morning, found a bunch of babies underneath. Then, that evening, found a bunch of dead babies.
Therewhenneeded 16
Ouch that sucks. But as others have said it is something that happens. When I was a teenager, I used to raise hamsters. Most of my females were so tame and/or chill I could reach in to clean and change water and food and they would just sleep with the babies and not care. Had one female though...i named her Spaz for a reason. Twitchy as ****, took me a while to get her hand tamed. Her first litter, I checked, saw her gnawing a baby, was sad but figured "It was born defective and/or first litter, she's overreacting." Next three days were fine, she was shaping up to be a good mama. Then I had to clean her bathroom corner and put in fresh food. Mind you, it was a 10 gallon tank and food and bathroom corner were at opposite end of her nest. Cleaned out dirty bedding, put in fresh, refilled her food dish, put in some carrot and refilled water bottle. Check back a couple hours later...all babies gone cept for a half one she was still gnawing on. Was tempted to chuck her out the window but figured she lived up to her name and got too stressed. Her next three litters had a casualty or two but most survived and then I wound up giving her to a friend and replaced her with a wonderful teddy bear hamster who loved nothing more than to sit on my shoulder and eat sunflower seeds.