Gender identity issues.
We bought our hamsters a couple months ago, and we were told that they were boys. I was looking around the internet yesterday and I found pictures of male Chinese dwarf hamsters. They all have scrotums the size of their heads. Not just noticable, but disturbingly huge.
I looked over at my hamsters. There is nary a testicle to be found. They're both pretty well fully grown, and completely nutless. I looked in my dwarf hamster book and found pictures of hamster genitals. Ours looked quite a lot like the "female" picture.
So Nobby and Karot need new names. They are apparently girls, so we're giving them new girl names. And we have the difficult pronoun shift of getting used to saying, "she's so cute" instead of "he's so cute".
Karot, the brown one, will now be known as Drusilla, or Dru. Nobby, the white one will now be known as Fred, which is short for Winnifred. So instead of hamster boys named Nobby and Karot we now have hamster girls named Dru and Fred.
Alana
