Hi there, I'm new here and so I want to ask all my hammy questions before getting into the chatter
Anyway! Here is the story: My boyfriend and I bought two russian albino dwarf hamsters from a pet store that we trust. A few months passed by and I caught my hamsters fighting badly and what I thought was Beans trying to dominate Pudding (but was in fact mating) so I separated them and low and behold, a few days later I saw the wiggly pink things in the nest! They were meant to be two female hamsters!!
Beans now has a new home and the babies are 5 weeks old (one went to his new home yesterday <3).
When the babies were two weeks old, Pudding started to display symptoms of pregnancy again and she got fatter and had a bulging belly. She started being rough and cruel to the babies so we separated them (it was time for that anyway). A few days before she was due, I saw blood all around the cage. It wasn't a huge amount but it was enough to alarm me. I cleaned Pudding up and assured she was okay and she seemed no different really, she actually seemed more cheerful.
In the next week, she lost the fat and stopped her pregnancy symptoms and since we had no new babies, we wondered if the blood was a miscarriage? I don't know if that is possible in hamsters but I thought I'd ask here. I was positive that they had mated, especially because my boyfriend picked Beans off of Pudding and saw stuff.. :/ I am also pretty sure the babies had already been born and that was why Pudding attacked!
Any ideas on what could have happened or was the mating just unsuccessful? (Thank goodness, she is quite a young hammie!)