League_Girl wrote:
Animals eat their own babies sometimes and if there is something wrong with one of them, the mother either eats it or pushes it out of the litter. But hamsters will eat their baby. To this day i wonder if our female dog killed her puppy that was a runt of the litter and wouldn't really nurse because he was found in a pool of blood coming from its face. I also wonder if she was even pushing that puppy away.
I went thrught something similar with my first cat, I was a teenager, I didn't know she was pregnant, she gave birth to 5 kittens in my lining closet, the runt of the litter, she wasn't nursing, her neck was so thin, it looked like a lollypop. I helped her nurse, I held her head until she nurse, my mom helped, she gave her a bottle of milk. I had to pushed the other kittens away so I could help the youngest kitten, weeks later, she got stronger, she was drinking milk from her mommy
She even looked like her, I named her Jessica.