Hi!
My furpals are numerous! One Great Dane, Max who is almost two; a sixteen year old part siamese cat, 3 Red Eared Sliders, 23 fish, 5 rats, 4 gerbils, and many, many hamsters! All except Max are rescues. The Hamsters are a new thing, and they have multiplied rapidly!
My first hamster, "Big Mama" was the innocent start: I work at a pet store, and we had a blind hamster who could not be sold, so I said, what the heck, I'll take her home and she can live her life out with my furry family! Well, she soon presented me with 11 babies. It was great fun raising them, and at weaning time, I dutifully separated the pups by sex and took them back to the store to sell. Some time later, we had a population explosion of Black Bears in the store and no where to house the mamas and their litters; I ended up with three mamas and 22 babies! I sold the first litter of 11 to a smaller pet store, and of the remaining 11 (two litters, born 5 days apart) I have sold two males. I still have 6 females and 3 males. One of the litters consisted of 3 black and three sandy colored babies. I am intrigued as both parents are black (Black Bears)! The sandy colored ones--all girls look and act just like Balck Bears with identical white chest markings. I have dubbed them "Cinnamon Bears." I would like to hear from anyone else who might have "Cinnamon Bears." I assume there is a recessive gene that causes this color, or perhaps a double dilute recessive gene.
I also have a motley array of older unwanted hamsters enjoying life at the "rodent retirement home," and a family (all female!) of tiny dwarf hamsters who entertain the dog endlessly with their busy activities!
Furpal
My furpals are numerous! One Great Dane, Max who is almost two; a sixteen year old part siamese cat, 3 Red Eared Sliders, 23 fish, 5 rats, 4 gerbils, and many, many hamsters! All except Max are rescues. The Hamsters are a new thing, and they have multiplied rapidly!
My first hamster, "Big Mama" was the innocent start: I work at a pet store, and we had a blind hamster who could not be sold, so I said, what the heck, I'll take her home and she can live her life out with my furry family! Well, she soon presented me with 11 babies. It was great fun raising them, and at weaning time, I dutifully separated the pups by sex and took them back to the store to sell. Some time later, we had a population explosion of Black Bears in the store and no where to house the mamas and their litters; I ended up with three mamas and 22 babies! I sold the first litter of 11 to a smaller pet store, and of the remaining 11 (two litters, born 5 days apart) I have sold two males. I still have 6 females and 3 males. One of the litters consisted of 3 black and three sandy colored babies. I am intrigued as both parents are black (Black Bears)! The sandy colored ones--all girls look and act just like Balck Bears with identical white chest markings. I have dubbed them "Cinnamon Bears." I would like to hear from anyone else who might have "Cinnamon Bears." I assume there is a recessive gene that causes this color, or perhaps a double dilute recessive gene.
I also have a motley array of older unwanted hamsters enjoying life at the "rodent retirement home," and a family (all female!) of tiny dwarf hamsters who entertain the dog endlessly with their busy activities!
Furpal
You should post some pics, they sound interesting.
