I meant to have some pictures of the little hamster-horde uploaded with this, but I appear to have misplaced the camera’s USB cord, so you guys are just going to have to wait ever so patiently for your baby hamster fix…
Anyway, we split up the kids yesterday. They’re about a month old now, no longer molest poor Knut for her milk, and have developed a heroin-addict’s obsession for sunflower seeds (well, a heroin addict who likes sunflower seeds, I guess). It took a good portion of the afternoon, but we managed to get all ten hamsters out of their respective cages, tore down, sanitized and reassembled said cages, and then got down to the business of trying to figure out which of these suckers are boys and which are girls.
The parents were pretty obvious since they’ve provided us with pretty good evidence, but it turns out sexing baby dwarf hamsters isn’t so easy. When in doubt, we called it a girl. Until we had a whole bunch of girls and then we started proclaiming the remainders to be boys. Pretty much all we accomplished was to determine that we have to try again in a couple of weeks when I’m hoping the hamster kids will have started sporting a preference for either Disney princesses or killing things, which ought to make the task of assigning a gender much easier.
Oh! and seeing as we have eight nameless almost-sexed hamsters now, we’re going to need to be giving these suckers some names. All suggestions are more than welcome (although, I understand that this might be easier once I finally get around to uploading pictures). But then considering what happened with Rocky and Knut, unisex names might be the way to go anyway…