The final count is in and we have 118 hamsters! If you are able to help please consider donating at gofundme.com/The-Florida-Hamster-Fiasco or through our Amazon wishlist at
http://a.co/fEKocKc. We really need water bottles, houses, food, bedding, and wheels.
We fit 118 hamsters into our quarantine room. Our quarantine room is on a separate air supply from the rest of the house to prevent the potential spread of any disease.
Each mom with nursing babies has a nice big cage to raise her little ones. Each adult hamster has his own cage. Every cage has a house (actually we need a few more), nesting material, food, water bottles (we officially ran out), a chew toy, a whimzee, a sprig of millett, and a dog biscuit.
Unfortunately, however, the Flagler County Humane Society was quite thorough in their mass euthanasia of every female hamster. We are quite disappointed in their handling of this. Nearly 100 female hamsters were needlessly killed AFTER we told the director of the shelter we could take every hamster. It actually cost them more to kill all of the hamsters than it would have to just let us take them.
We already have rescues to transfer approximately 85 of these hamsters to once they are cleared to go and I am confident we could have handled many many more. To say I am upset about how the shelter handled it may be the understatement of the year, but all we can do now is love the ones we have here and try to get our name out there so this never has to happen at any shelter again. #hamster #love #rescue #wedidit #thankyou
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