babies uptdate

now they have hair!!
you can see eyelids instead of a black circle
the eat solid food, the move arround and grab with their paws whatever is in thery way, they seat and nibble it

the mother move the nest, at first it was upstair, you may say in the third floor(the orange one), she moved them to the fisrt floor.. all of them, they are now inside a clinex box to small for the 8 of them (6 + parents) but maybe she did that now that they are getting older and more independat.

pay atention to tha oic and you may notice the difference

family pictures

here are the babies first pics!!
they now are 5 days old! they are developping according to what is expected(check my last post)
you can see one of the babies on it's back and another one on it's stomach, crearlly they are going to have black o gray hair.
on the first day they were completely pink!
by tha way they cry!!!
the secodn one is the mother, and the third one is Cotton, the new female

they'r here!!!1

6 little pink hamsters! They were born today during the morning. It's amazing, you can see the little black eyes, they have a big head, tiny paws and you can see the milk in their stomachs!!1

Even better the father is helping the mother to take care of them. they are a bog happy family!


I searched for some info and her's the summary for taking care of the baby hamsters:
4-6 days: some pigment
5-7 days some hair
9-10 days some eyes...open
14-16 days they have open eyes and hair, you can touch them but for short periods of time, and clean the cage
3 weeks: separate males form females
5 weeks: they can go to a new home

The best mother's day ever

ok, I'm not actually a mother, but to me my pets are my kids. And in Costa Rica Augost 15th is mother's day.
I just found out that my dog, Bellota is in heat! FINALLY i've waited for 10 moths since her last heat! You cant imagine my happines.

Hey, ther's more again, FINALLY my hamster Bolita is pregnant, she's huge, her belly is so big, and her nipples are visible, round and pink. I hope to see baby hmasters by the end of the week. AS soon as I can I will show pictures of them. Plus, I bought another one, her name is Cotton. Previously I had bought another russian, but kind of a blond one. She was sooooo histericla, and anoying, I had to change her for Cotton, becuase she fought with the other hamsters plus she was afraid of everything, including me! cotton is so different, she get along with Pelusa, but since Bolitas is pregnant she is not so friendly.

Yo continue with Belllota's story. She is going to be artifitially inseminated by a champion! As soon as I get more information about it I'll make a summary. The date is August 17th!

25 days from that date, we'll now if she is or isnt pregnant!

Bolita an Pelusa's pent house, plus new commers!

Now my two small citters have their masion too. Today I came home form college and there i was, it has a lot of tubes, and a wheel, the water bottle, food dish, and many extra opening for future tubes! it's perfet. They can even interact with Bellota, well she licks them.. and they smell her... it's fun

by the way,, I think the are both males.... It's Murphy's Law no animal in my house will evere reproduce! It sucks... I still have some hope with Bellota.

On a another subject, we found turtles! my borhter had tow by one died after a week and the other one killed herself... she got stuck on to the filter's hose. We went to buy more because he and my father built a huge turtle tank, their own mansion...

for at least 6 mothns we've been searchign for more turtles, ofcourse, for whatever reason they were prohibited in the country... Weel today was our lucky day, on two different petstores they had tons of little read eared turtles..

guess thay are no longer prohibited!
their names are Sofia and Marisol

juanro's bday

Monday 17th was my boyfriend's bday. He turned 23! so I did kind of a treasure hunt with his gift. I bought the complete animated series of XMen, he's a fan. It came in 3 DVDs. so i left 4 clues, the last one was to find the cake. On every clue there was a paper minicoupe, that he loves. It was really fun, and he managed to find all the DVDs, well it was really easy, they were arround the first floor of my house.

If you'r intereted in the paper car models, you can find them at this link, there is a big list of different models, there is a Subaru Impresa, the razing kind, that is extremely real.. and many more. http://genius.x0.com/pmdirectory/

more news

on Wednesday I saw Pelusa mounting Bolita, so I hope to see her grow during the next couple of weeks. Maybe by july 5th I'll be writting about my baby hamsters!
I'll keep my fingers crossed

2 species, 1 bed...

I went to the store to change the male hedgehog for a female, so now it's really Petunia (by the way it's the name of a flower)
she is a lot like ofus, but a little bit lighther

The very next day after Petunia came home (yesterday) when I woke up, my father told me ofus was missin and he watch the boxed where bellota sleeps moving...

Ofus was sleeping, inside bellotas box, under her comforter(an old one we dont use anymore) and Bellotas was still inside teh box...

I cant imagine how did Ofus scape because he never did, and I tought her cage was scaping proofed, but she proved wrong...

Also I don't undestand how Bellota didn't notice that ofus was crwaling under her conforter while she was sleeping on it! She always barks when Ofus is moving even more when she scaped..

Today ofus did the same thing, so tonight I will live a camera to see if I can record how she does it.

What a mix up!

today I was checking that petunia was really a girl, but it's actually a boy!!!! It's a male! then I checked Ofus to see if he was a male, but (lucky) it's a girl!

So know I have a 2 year old female calles Ofusquina
and a 1 month old male Petunio...

What makes me mad is that I was looking for a female for one year and a half!!!! I already had one!
I bought both of them at the same place.

When I get tha chance I will go there and give them a very longgggg speach...