hamster....um?

[animallovers200]

:confused: ok well earlier i was talking to one of my friends and we were talking about hamsters and she told me that her sister had a hamster before and the petstore said it was a male, but alittle while after she got it, it had babies and she was cleaning out the hamster cage since she kept them and when she moved the old bedding she found a shriveled up baby hamster head! i know disgusting :( , the mother hamster had eaten its baby...is this true that the mother hamster would do that if the baby is sick? or was my friend doing it just to spite me?

Please give me your opinion and information.
Jessie :cutie: and Phantom :hamster1:

[TiaMaria]

Its very true animallovers. If it was sick or weak, or if it was going to die, the mother would leave it and move the litter somewhere else, sometimes. Sometimes a mom just leaves it or she may eat it...It all depends.

[o0sapphirerat0o]

The mother may have been really nervous or scared as well.

[yodelinghamster]

right! hopefully she was not cleaning the cage when they were younger than about 2 weeks. If so it ia not very good to do that...

[animallovers200]

no she didn't clean the cage before two weeks, wich she said was the problem cause her roomed smelled. lol

[LuckyBunny888]

Yep tis true...thankfully Ive never had any of my hammies do that and was able to check and handle the babies since day one! Mommy was a very good girl about it too! I love my black bears!