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AshleyIRL t1_j54s3eh wrote

You didn't ask for this advice, but please heed the warning about how fast hamsters can reproduce and reconsider housing them together if you must get more than one. In brief, when I worked for the humane society a few years ago we had a couple surrender over 200 hamsters. They started with two hamsters one year prior. Feel free to DM for hamster info and tips if you'd like to.

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Denkir-the-Filtiarn t1_j54y1x0 wrote

Honestly probably better to go with rats. Two female rats. They're really easy to tell apart too, and generally cage mate siblings get along well if they're both female.

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not_my_grandma t1_j6c0qha wrote

When I was in high school, we had an Intro to Psychology course. I was (and still am) super into psychology, so I took the course. Part of the course was that, as a class, we had to choose a psychological experiment and complete it, with everybody turning in their own research papers and thoughts on the experiment.

We chose a fun one from the list of pre-approved experiments- training rats to play basketball. So our teacher goes out and buys two rats. The pet store she bought them from swore up and down they were both males.

Well, we found out our Ralph was a Ralphina when we came to school and found 10 baby rats in their cage. Woops.

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