Surprise, surprise

my boyfriend had forced me to take care of two dwarf hamsters while he's gone, and these small animals had five (or six?) very tiny baby hamsters last night. so we have a big hamster family now. actually the parents themselves are either brother and sister or mother and son or father and daughter, although everyone was sure that they were two female hamsters when they were put together-- yeah, right... anyway, my theory is that these animals don't need to have a certain sex to breed or that they just transform somehow. why? because it doesn't matter which hamsters you put together in one cage; they ALWAYS get babies! they would probably even get babies when they are alone in the cage. in case of a hamster offspring, my flatemate's plan was to put the babies in the freezer and use them as food for his pet, a snake. i don't know. i have to tell my boyfriend first (although he'd probably agree with the plan). as a start, i'll wait for the weakest one of the babies to be eaten (ya, this also happens a lot)