Super Dog, Poor hamsters

Remember Happy? Our adopted dog? She developed some rashes on her chest (or underbody, or whatever you call that part of a dog's anotomy with the nipples on it?) So we took her to the vet. Allergic to my floor, i think, poor dog. So she was given some medication for the itching. The vet advised us to let the dog wear a t-shirt, so that her claws wont be in direct contact with the skin when she scratch.

That's Jo's old T-shirt. It's one of the Incredible's family - Violet - the girl who can turn invincible. Maybe Happy is wishing to also 'disappear' but she has to bear the 'indignity' of wearing a shirt!

We took her for a walk, and a man commented that she look like superman's dog - Super Dog! Happy growled at him. If dogs could talk, I think Happy said "Say that again man, you're dead meat!" *Growl*

Oh, on a more somber note.... our hamster just gave birth to 6 babies, but they all died!! The mother just cannbalised them . We didn't even get to see the pups alive.There were dead baby hamsters parts all over the tank. (It have birth before we woke up in the morning) Kids were putting on their shoes to go to school when we made the gruesome discovery.

According to http://www.hamster-zone.com/, it’s not at all uncommon to have a mother hamster eat some or all of her litter. There’s no hard and fast reason for why they do this, although some theories exist. For example, first-time mothers may be so shocked by the whole situation that they feel threatened by the new arrivals and simply eat them to remove the threat. Also, first time mothers can produce pups that are undersized or abnormal, thus causing the mother to reject and possibly eat them. Yeeewwww!!!!

By the way, this is our 2nd birthing. The 1st time the mother gave birth to 6 babies, but ate 2 of them. The mother died when her babies was around 2 months old. We gave two babies to my cousin (and they grew up to have 6 more babies!!!. None were eaten!) We kept two, and the female is the one who just gave birth and killed her babies! So sad!