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Anonymous
Who's had the beautiful experience of seeing mothers eating their children?
>> Haunter !Ym9iVooAJY
Disgusting.
>> Anonymous
mine didnt eat her's but she certainly did sit on them very hard
>> Anonymous
Weird thread is weird.
>> Anonymous
OP here.Sorry for not telling my story.
I had hamsters.Six came out of mother stomach.Then i made the mistake of grabing them impregnant them with my odor.Aparrently mother didnt like this, and start eating them.She started with the head.The body moves for a couple of seconds.Only one left, i had to kill it with a needle.
>> Anonymous
>>297661
kawai desu ne~ ^________^
>> Anonymous
>>297661
Let's turn this into a horror story thread, we had a great one a while ago.

My sister got a hermit crab for her birthday, and she was pretty excited. She immediately forgot to feed it, and lo and behold, we checked up on it one day and mushrooms and mold spores were all over the portion of the tank where it died. We never got another pet for her.
>> Anonymous
When I worked as a Lab Technician, one of my responsibilities was to breed our mouse colony. I saw Moms eat babies sometimes. Some of the Moms would eat every little bit of their pups and others would leave the heads lying around.
Usually when I found the pup heads, they were scattered around the cage but once I found a Mom who was trying to take care of her pup heads. She had all the heads in here nest and sat on top of them like she was trying to nurse them.
>> Anonymous
>>297731
sounds like a paris

I had two mice when I was little and one of them ended up developing cancer. It had a huge tumor growing out of its side and one night it popped and the mouse died. My dad found the other mouse eating the dead one before I woke up.
>> Anonymous
Why the fuck do rodents eat their babies? That makes no fucking sense.
>> Anonymous
>>297778

If it makes you feel better, mice and other rodents don't eat their buddies for no reason. As soon as a mouse dies, it stops giving off its own personal smell that the other mouse recognizes as 'oh, this smells like my friend' and just becomes like a corpse to them. The living mouse, knowing that having a rotting prey body around could attract predators, tries to eat as much of the body as possible to cover up the scent.

So... yeah, still disturbing to see, but the living mouse was just going with its intincts.
>> Anonymous
>>297786

Actually it makes a great deal of sense.

Rodents are animals that can breed fast, and breed often. If, for instance, a mother rodent feels threatened in their current environment (this can happen in homes as pets, if their environment is loud or chaotic, or if they perceive something around them as a threat), she realizes 1) predators kill animals more viciously than she can hopefully cull her pups, so killing them herself reduces suffering, 2) if she fears there's not enough food around, she'd rather kill them quickly than have them starve to death, and 3) if she has to kill this group of pups, she can always have another litter. It's better for her to be able to get away and escape (with the nourishment of her pup's bodies) to breed another day, rather than sacrifice herself to potential starvation. Rodent mothers also cull their pups if they're unhealthy (if she didn't get enough nutrients during pregnancy for instance), if she senses a defect, or if there are just too many pups in that litter to survive.

Everything about rodents killing pups makes sense from their survival standpoint. They don't do it because they're crazy, or evil, or whatever. They do it because that's what they sometimes need to do to survive.
>> Anonymous
I had tons of hamsters as a kid, i was about 8 and the one time the cage was in my room and the momma had her babies, i went to go to bed a few nights after birth and looked in the cage and everywhere there were little legs and half heads..... don't remember what happened after that, but i know for damn sure i'll never get the image out of my head
>> Anonymous
>>297791
You're my new favorite /an/onymous.
>> tigerfeather !CrwtTbFNxQ
>>297791
Er, I think that only that third option really applies. It's realize it's hard to not anthropomorphically refer to their behavior (project our feelings/thoughts onto their behavior), but do you seriously think that the mother is "worried" about how her pups will feel about dying? Animals do not think that abstractly, as much as we might think that they do based on behaviors.
>> Anonymous
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>>297961
Quoted for absolute truth.

I kept many, many mice over the years from being a little kid to the end of high school. I saw the mothers eating their babies only a few times, but they always ate off the skull and hollowed out the brain of the babies. Sometimes it left no face, or maybe only the top of the skull was missing... The worst was when one had just a bottom jaw left with perfect tiny teeth and tongue exposed.

Another horrible moment was when a beloved old mouse had a gunky-looking eye, so I took her to the local country vet. He took her from my hands, squeezed too hard as she struggled a bit and popped her pink eye out onto his hand. I cried out in horror and he put it down in the back room.

I loved each and every one of my mice ;-; Now I have three cats from three separate hand-raised litters of abandoned kittens and can't have any mice ever again.
>> Anonymous
>>297791
execpt the mother doesn't care shit about her childs. She will do everything that benefit her, that's all.
No "she doesn't want her babies to suffer" bullshit please.
>> Anonymous
>>298021


If the mother "doesn't care shit about her childs", then she wouldn't be a member of a species that provides post natal care, like producing milk, finding food, raising pups to be mice. I'm not really prepared to get into the whole, "Don't project human emotions onto animals" debate, but suffice to say, post natal care is wired into a mother mouse's brainstem. Pinkies don't raise themselves.
>> Frankengun !HgIdo42VU2
This thread is fuckin funny as hell, archive plz.
>> Moo !XBOXgikTFw
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>> Frankengun !HgIdo42VU2
>>298042
Mmm, Cadbury eggs....

Fuck, now I want some. >:(
>> Anonymous
>>297791
>>298027

FAIL.

Mice do not understand abstract concepts like "my suffering babies".
>> Anonymous
>>298057
how do you know ?

are you the mouse whisperer?
>> Anonymous
We had three puppies waiting to be euthinized. They all had parvo, and one died before well...the pound could kill it. Anyway, since they where off in their own part of the building as to not spread the disease, we rarely checked on them. 3 puppies became two plus skeletal remains of one in about 6 hours.
>> Anonymous
As a child I had the joy of finding the mom hamster of my couple had eaten her 8 babies.

The next litter I gave her more food, especially vegetables, and the 9 little bastards were fine. Then one day I came home to find a crow had eaten the mother's fucking eyes.

I fucking hate hamsters now.
>> lollilops
>>298682
..your hamsters were outside?
>> Anonymous
>>298691

It ate her eyes through the cage bars. Pretty crazy, when you think about it.
>> lollilops
>>298695
Wow. I guess that's why you're on 4chan now.
>> Anonymous
>>298027
There's instinctive care like weaning them... that hardly includes
>1) predators kill animals more viciously than she can hopefully cull her pups, so killing them herself reduces suffering, 2) if she fears there's not enough food around, she'd rather kill them quickly than have them starve to death,

>>>298095
Consider OP's story. They didn't smell like the young she'd just given birth to, inside her enclosed cage, so she fucks them up... yeah small rodents are real intelligent
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>298726

D:
>> A better story.... Anonymous
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My blue dumbo rat's first litter was of 9 pups. One of them was stillborn, and she didn't seem to know what to do with it, so I put my hand in the nest and took it away, probably getting my scent all over the other pups. But that didn't matter, Nanwe grabbed my finger and started grooming it like she always does. I was able to pick the the pups, take them out and photograph their development from day one, then hand them back to the mother one at a time, and she'd nestle them back under her belly. Pic related, it's one of the pups all grown up
>> Frankengun !HgIdo42VU2
>>298682
rofl
>> Anonymous
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This rat was an excellent mother. That is all.
>> Anonymous
I saw hamsters doing this when I was, like, 8 at the pet store. I cracked up for hours.

Is there something wrong with me????
>> Anonymous
>>297786

They eat them as a twisted way of protecting them. They'd rather kill them themselves than have something else do something terrible to them.

They might also be sick, or maybe she can't have as many babies so she eats them for nutrients. Hamsters also eat other sick hamsters.
>> R.D. !!qFhBIHR1ap8
My zebrafinch Rocìo started eating her eggs, so I took away her nest :>
>> Anonymous
my neighbors *who lived in a trailer* kept a small cat who had kittens in a tiny cardboard box she couldn't get out of.
she crushed all but one and i just took it next door to my mom and said we were keeping him.
he made it to 7 years then someone hit him w/ a car
>> Anonymous
>>298887
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

serves him right, shitty cats
>> Juba, The Baghdad Sniper !1EVr3uyPJI
>>298832
>They'd rather kill them themselves than have something else do something terrible to them.
ANIMALS ARE NOT THAT SMART.
>> Anonymous
>>299136

Pull your head out of your ass, you dumb fuck. Animals have brains and think and process thought, unlike you.
>> Anonymous
>>298832

Though to be fair, hamsters eat other ill hamsters so that a predator won't smell the other one when it dies. It's all about protecting yourself and living to breed another day in rodent world.
>> Anonymous
>>299156

more like I'mma get some nutrients outta this before that predator does....there is no mercy involved at all...

A) evolution favored those that ate their young when disturbed..they regained the nutrition and are able to try again sooner than those that let the predator eat the babies, thus being out of the calories and the progeny.

And/Or

B) stress related cannibalism is found mainly in domesticaed animals. As humans take over much of the caregiving then the parental fitness of the line is reduced. Many many species of animals that have been domesticated for a several genrations make shitty parents becuase they where being bred for many other things besides parenting ability...There are now many domesticated animals and fish tat are worth a premium if that "good parenting" or "easy birthing" can be said about the parents. Chanfags Thinks everything eats there babies becuase they saw their hamster/gerbil/rabbit/mouse/bird/fish do it...the odds leaning heavily in the favor of them being genetically shitty parents.
>> Anonymous
>>298057


That wasn't what I was saying you fucking idiot. Can't you read? Are you amerikkan or something? What I said was that a mouse is programmed to give extensive postnatal care to her pups, therefore the statement that she "doesn't give a shit about her childs" is inaccurate. I am NOT commenting on the whole "killing the babies to save them from a terrible death" debate. I'm staying the fuck away from that one.
>> Anonymous
>>299156
Yeah, you should probably just kill yourself now.
>> Anonymous
oh shi- with all these story i want to puke
>> Anonymous
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BABIES ARE MADE OF CAKE
>> Stabby
>>299331
this is what you said:

>she realizes 1) ...killing them herself reduces suffering, ... 2) if she fears there's not enough food around, she'd rather kill them quickly than have them starve to death

Both of which are retarded statements that assume mousey can think in abstract terms. Yeah I'm American, what the fuck of it?
>> Anonymous
ITT INTERNET TOUGH GUYS
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>>299156
Shut up. A mouse will not eat babies to save them from a potentially horrible death. She'll eat them because she's hungry. Mice aren't smart enough to understand the concept of what's best for anyone but herself.
>> Sage Anonymous
Aahahahahalol.

Actually, everyone shut the fuck up, I've seen enough. Sage.
>> Anonymous
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1. Open this image.
2. Save it as lol.hta
3. Open the file you saved.
4. Shit bricks.
>> Anonymous
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>>299344
Bean paste, faggot.
>> Anonymous
... I'm a night watchman at a pound. This is the saddest thing to watch. I understand why it happens. Better this way than mass euthanasia.
>> Anonymous
I'll just leave this here,

I once had a pet hamster, along with two ferrets. The hamster has one of those little plastic cages with the cheesy little desert background and whatnot. The ferrets cage, which was underneath the other cage, was just a normal cage with bars. Well one day, the hamster got somehow escaped and fell into the ferrets cage. I came home to bits a pieces of a mauled hamster flesh and eyeballs. This ferret was also white. Very bloody scene.