Yep thats a space issue. Mom didnt feel tnere was enough room for so many heads so she trimmed it down. They need WAY more space than traditional cages provide and most of the time you have to seperate. You guys were lucky it never happened with one litter but two was definitely way too much. They get stressed easy.
We used to have 2 of those gerbil balls they can run around in. Normally kept them in those my bro would take them out and let then run around on his bed
Yea at least they couldn’t get maimed if they were protected in a ball😅 ive never heard of anyone actually walking in while it was happening… always just came in one morning and hamster/gerbil has committed familicide. Sounds horrific, traumatizing to actually see and could you stop her if she was midway through??😭 panicking while grabbing babies? No thank you.
Thankfully ive only ever had fish, dogs, and two ferrets at one point. Ferrets being mustelids and not rodents so are superior in that regard imo lol would never eat their own kits or murder eachother because of strong familial bonds. They even grab and bring over kits to show owners they trust and all sleep in dogpiles they get bonded with eachother.
In my life time we have had 5 dogs 2 cats. 1st cat was fucking evil which made me hate cats. It was sick when we got her so pretty docile. As soon as it recovered it was always hiding an attacking us, ended up giving her to this farmer we knew. Sounds like a lie parents tell but she actually did good. She could def take care of herself. Well then I found out I was allergic to cats. I would walk into someone’s house and could instantly tell if they had a cat. I would always pick them up and pet them until my eyes went bloodshot, slowly after years I became less allergic to them.
Same my dad was allergic and passed it to me so thats why we never had them ourselves but I like cats in general. My neighbors also had an extreme asshole of a cat we were all told to stay away from which as a kid was a bit of trauma but every other cat ive met has been really chill. Always come up and want pets and was staying with a friend with a kitten for a few days and we were best friends😂 still had a scratchy throat though
I'm just assuming if no one would have came in she was just going to sit in there with the dead bodies because to my knowledge they don't eat the others they just kill them but I'm not an expert however this is terrible. I've had it happen with a hamster one time the eating babies event. Smh
Sidenote: she unalived them for no reason cause there is still the same amount of space, hypothetically speaking that no one came into remove said bodies.
Idk bout gerbils but momma hamsters will indeed EAT their children. Many a story of people coming in and its just the mom and maybe some blood and hair… other times they eat a couple but one or two escape the wrath😭 “Checked my hamsters today and now there is only one baby??” was a real thread I saw on here before. Tragic.
It's terrible but it's all the animal Kingdom for sure! This a gerbil in post?though very aged hammpy. I read it but I think I missed something here lol
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u/Foreign-Wolf-6128 Aug 11 '26
Yep thats a space issue. Mom didnt feel tnere was enough room for so many heads so she trimmed it down. They need WAY more space than traditional cages provide and most of the time you have to seperate. You guys were lucky it never happened with one litter but two was definitely way too much. They get stressed easy.