Anyone have hamsters? I have a question to ask

[midnightrat]

Last night I discovered my gf's hamster was missing a leg. It looked like it'd been chewed off:shocked:, we suspect it was the other hamster, it's pretty aggresive. Other than the missing leg he seems to be fine otherwise, he was even using the little wheel in it's cage.

The other hamster is in another cage at the moment, kind of worried it's gone cannibalistic.

Has anyone else seen this type of behaviour in hamsters?

Sorry no pics till tonight.

 

[JDrake]

WTF :Q:Q:Q :shocked:
I only had 1 hamster and it had all its legs...

 

[skrilla]

Hamsters sometimes eat their own young I believe - so your cannibalistic hamster is a likely possibility.

 

[JDrake]

Originally posted by: skrilla
Hamsters sometimes eat their own young I believe - so your cannibalistic hamster is a likely possibility.

Yes, my neighbor's hamster ate its babies - but never a leg..

 

[Queasy]

Well, that certainly isn't going to make me feel better about the two hamsters my wife bought for our son last night....

 

[Syrch]

Originally posted by: skrilla
Hamsters sometimes eat their own young I believe - so your cannibalistic hamster is a likely possibility.

The male will eat the young while the female tries to find for their lives. Pretty grusome seeing this first hand (thankfully we were able to stop the ordeal). But yes it is possible that the other bit its leg in a "argument"

 

[FoBoT]

hamster drumstick? yuck, not enough meat

 

[narutofan36]

i heard rabbits sometimes chew the testicles of other rabbits for competition of females. Could hamsters do this?

castrated

 

[alien42]

hahahahha

i had to sibling hamsters and one tried to kill the other so they had to be seperated