Hamster Lovin'

In line with other strange happenings in my life, I discovered last night that Jongar is not male. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Jongar is female and now I am confused as to how to refer to her/him. I must change her/his name into something feminine.

This revelation was unexpected because the pet shop said that both Hazza3 and Jongar are male, and they even said that they don’t ever sell female hamsters because they don’t want people to breed them. So you understand my astonishment in light of this discovery.

How did I find out, you ask. Let’s just say that determining the sex of a hamster is tricky business until they start doing things with their cage companions that make their sex a whole lot clearer to us humans with no experience whatsoever in rearing the baby hamsters which we expect to have within 16 days.

Initially traumatized by my doubts, I googled hamster mating and whatnot, and I even looked for videos on YouTube to compare the “events” and make certain it was not all a male fight over cage territory. Hours into my research, I realized that there is no information about male hamster fights which corresponds to what I was seeing, and I eventually gave in to the bitter truth. I even shot a video of the whole affair to document it and show it to my family, and also to upload it to YouTube. I won’t embed it here because my sister thinks that would be in poor taste, and quite frankly I don’t want a reputation as an animal porn producer. It’s true.

So there. Jongar is a girl, any suggestions for a new name? And are you a nice person who loves animals and would like to have a young hamster soon?