The Youngest of All
After Porkie’s demise, I can’t wait for MikiSan to give birth, which happened shortly a few days after that. I was pretty anxious as it will be the first time I can experienced how hamsters give birth and raise their pups. All the cute little pinkies wriggling around the tank, suckling on hamster mummy’s milk. It will be a wonderful experience.
On the day she gave birth, I had to cautiously check if she has gave birth as I didn’t want to stress her out. I found 1 pup which didn’t look normal. My heart sank but I couldn’t confirm. Another pup came to sight, a normal looking one, but was not moving. I hope my eyes were playing tricks on me. Miki was grooming them, but they weren’t moving at all. I waited till the afternoon and there was no miracle. She ate both of them. My heart sank further. I felt extremely sad that the pups didn’t make it. I didn’t know if there were actually more pups. Told myself, it’s not meant to be.
The delivery exhausted her totally and she slept for the whole day, even too tired to eat. Glad that she gained her energy back at night and was her usual active self.
Miki came to me when she was around 8 weeks old. She’s the smallest and lightest of all her siblings then. There was no intention for any more hamsters as Kimchi is supposed to be the last I can have. But I am glad I got her. Miki and Kimchi shares the same mum, Butterscotch(see if you can spot Butterscotch), whose very active as well. These 2 girls sure takes after their mum. Thus it’s hard to get nice shots of her.
I love the way they snuggle when they sleep. There are tonnes of their sleeping pics sitting in my hard disk. Results are always so much better because they are not moving. LOL
