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[Mar. 13th, 2009|10:10 pm] |
One of our hamsters (all four are as yet unnamed because my little brother has gone through 200 names for each of them so far and hasn't decided on any) gave birth to seven blind red jellybeans today.
I kid you not, they are disgusting to look at and squeal when they get dragged by one of the hamsters en route to the food dish. And when they do squeal they sound like rusty swings, only smaller.
Here's a blurry picture of them in a bed of sawdust. Photo by Nico.
Jason said they might eat their young, like his cats do, and he hits them because they're bad. But I can't hit hamsters because they bite back, the little balls of fur.
And he's right, they eat their young if there's not enough protein in the mother hamster's diet, or if you touch the baby jellybeans and transfer your scent onto them and the confused mother eats them.
Animal pet care sites said they'll open their eyes in 11 to 12 days, and when they do, we should put the water bottle down or feed them pieces of cucumber to hydrate. Then after two weeks we can touch them and clean the cage (eew that'll be so smelly by then). Till then they'll have to drink like, milk molecules from the hamster's tiny teat.
All I want to know is if they're having sex in the cage or if they were pregnant when we bought them. The former is alarming because if they're a horny bunch, we'll have a jar of jellybeans by Christmas.
It's very fascinating and disgusting in a way. I mean, I will never eat red or pink jellybeans again.
Enough of that, here are my favorite phrases from editing this week's worth of regional stories:
| political indefferences | | six dies in car crash | | suspect was also included in the charged sheet... | | ...gathering more evidence to pin down the brain. (mastermind) | | ..application for licensed jives with actual operations... | | personnels | | new-looking suspicious people | | ...here we are stucked with an incompetent leader. | | ...rebels returned to the folds of the law... | | ...the search would be piloted in the first district of Leyte. | A throng of angry militant woman... (my favorite!)
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Words this week that could be replaced with something else:- waylay- ambush
- purseiner- fishing vessel
- adjudged- judged
Last names I like:- Santotome- police story
- Archival- lawyer
New things I learned this week:- A worker who is terminated is required to be told about it a month prior and is supposed to be given separation pay. Under the Labor Code, separation pay should be equivalent to at least one month's pay or successive years' pay, whichever is higher.
- There is a place in the Philippines called Camotes Island. In Cebu.
Yeah, dudes, let's pin down the brain!!
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