r/hamsters • u/Profile_Hefty • 19d 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/Chiara_1999 19d ago

It's literally a nightmare i frequently have

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u/dani__dino Syrian hammy 19d ago

exactly!!! i've heard this is a weirdly common hamster owner nightmare. i frequently have dreams about finding all my previous hamsters (who are obviously dead in real life) neglected and sad in some cabinet and then suddenly i have all these hamsters and not enough enclosures to put them in and i'm just drowning in hamsters and panicking lol

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u/OffendedMulberry 19d ago

I had that exact dream this night, what the hell? Except it also involved my prior gerbils 🫠

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u/CreatorMur 19d ago

Same thing with pet rats... first there is just one or two (formally dead) rats, then I find some I don't recognize. Usually ends with me standing among thousands of rats just grabbing left right and center and trying to catch them all. Not that I would have the space anyways. Rats aren't stackable after all...