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⌈ Secret Post #3039 ⌋

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[Starsky and Hutch]

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[Ernest Hemingway (and his cat)]

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Call the humane society/animal control. They should send someone out to pick it up so it can be transferred to a rehabber.

Alternatively, if you can reach the nest, you can just put it back in. That whole thing about birds rejecting babies if a human has touched them is just a myth.

AC won't take it. The rehabber said they don't take birds. And there is no way to reach the nest.

That's... bizarre. I have never met a rehabber who didn't take birds - I know rehabbers who don't take animals, just birds, but never the other way around.

I agree, but OP said there aren't wildlife places around, this may include animal control.

And is it a myth with other animals as well? Because when I was in elementary school we had pet baby hamsters that supposedly died because kids touched them. I really hope they weren't guilted for no reason...

It might not be a myth for animals who have more of a sense of smell. Handling baby hamsters is a good way to stress out the mother, which in turn has bad consequences for the babies.

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That's a myth too. Your teacher (well, I assume it was a class pet since you mention elementary school, but I guess it doesn't really matter) might have THOUGHT they were telling you the truth but the baby hamsters likely died for some other reason (...or they were eaten by their mother, which is not at all unlikely, and your teacher thought that telling children their touch resulted in the deaths of hamsters was somehow less traumatizing than good old fashioned cannibalism)

AYRT - Looking back, my teacher wasn't that horrible, so my guess/recollection (keeping in mind I was so young) was that she said something like that COULD happen, and then when it did, the other kids were like "see?" I do remember it being another kind telling me that's why it happened, not the teacher.

rodents like hamsters eat their young because of stress, it's more than likely being in a classroom full of loud and handsy kids was the culprit

and if the hamster was a first-time mother or young, they often have a difficult time with their litters and it's not unheard of for a first-time rodent mom to panic and cull all of their pups

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