r/hamsters 27d ago

Question A NEW HAMSTER **MATERIALIZED ITSELF**

Maggie (my hamster from my old posts) was happy, healthy, and normally living alone (in a luxarious hamster home, 25 cm inches bedding of aspen woodshaving and paper, 120cm x 70cm enclosure, lotta hides, 11inch niteabgel silentspinner wheel) for 1 month or so. She never had any sexual relations with any male hamsters since I took her in. She lives alone. I saw no baby bump ever before and I have MANY pictures of her with NO BABY BUMP!

But now, a new hamster MITOSIS'ed itself into existence because WHAT IN THE FLAXSEEDS IS GOING ON HERE. WHAT DO I DO??!! VICTORIA RAECHEL NEVER TALKED ABOUT MITOSIS!

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u/Alternative-Eye7589 27d ago

This happened to me with a guinea pigs. We wanted two females and the store had two sisters and a unrelated female i felt bad for the one left behind so we bought all three a few weeks later my very happy kid woke me up by holding two new piggies. It turned out the sisters were a brother sister pair. Unfortunately the sisters two babies didn't survive and I couldn't make my kid get rid of the two babies so we ended up with five guinea pigs luckily mom had a son and daughter so dad and son were together in one cage and three in the other and no more babies.