So Lizziey got two new hamsters.

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Male and female.

When I mentioned this, she said she'll just bring the babies back to the store, that the salesperson told her to do this.

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Hamsters eat their babies, don't they? And are terribly unsocial, right?

Yeah, this is gonna end well.

Comments

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

My knowledge of rabbits is limited to what Roald Dahl (http://www.roalddahlfans.com/shortstories/geor.php) and Richard Adams (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380002930/103-0992582-2015033?v=glance) have told me, but they both claim that rabbits, like other rodentia, do eat their young to prevent overcrowding. Though according to Adams, this is rare, and is most often prevented by simply never giving birth in the first place--in situations of extreme stress such as overcrowding, the does absorb the pups back into their bodies.

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

Rabbits are lagomorphs, not rodents. Closely related, but not technically rodents. :)