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Male or Female?

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Question
Hi! I have a qest....I just have 2 dwaf hamsters 1 mounths ago and the silly shop keeper said it was 2 girls but when we gave the money she said that one of them was a boy then she said sorry my bad....today i went outside to see my hamsters and I saw them mating each other,I was sooo scared I didn't dare to tell my mom. I went on the computer and searched I found 2 photos of female and male's bottoms and I was sure that Keiko(my grey hamster)was a boy!!!! But I wasn't sure about Suger (my white hamster) it looked like a boy and a girl's....soooo i really need ur help...can u help me as soon as posible plz......:-)

Answer
Hiya,

Ok i think you should tell your mum and be honest. Tell her exactly what you have said to me about the shopkeeper, because that wasn't your fault. You need to go back to the shop and demand they sex them and give you a pair of the same sex, this is really wrong of them to behave this way. In the meantime you need to split the pair up if you think they are opposite sexes otherwise you will be having lots of babies!!!! If they are young it can be hard to sex them and someone who is experienced should sex them, again the pet shop should do this!!

Like i said, you should go back to the pet shop ask them to sex them, if they say they are opposite sexes then you can explain before you bought them you were told they were the same, and so you would like them to take them off your hands before they have babies. If they tell you they are the same and they have babies then this is their fault too, and it is their responisbility to take them off your hands.

Hope this helps,
Charlie