The blessed event has finally arrived. I came downstairs this morning and looked in on Blackie and saw that she had her babies. I think she’d had them not too long ago as they looked a bit damp still. Sadly one of them was dead. I was not too surprised when I saw that in all she had had FOUR. I removed the dead one and put the whole cage in our very warm bathroom to give her a quiet warm place for the other babies to perk up. They appear to be doing fine. I haven’t seen her nursing them yet, but we’ve only peeked in a few times and also she is still busy eating up the bloody chips. Which apparently they do so that predators cannot smell them. We haven’t taken them out yet, but I did snap a couple quick pictures. Blackie herself appears active and cheerful and considerably smaller. When you see how big they are it’s crazy to think of four of them squished inside her!
Congratulations! How exciting!