Hamsters

Maggie & family are going to Korea for 1 week holiday and so we offered to take care of their 2 young hamsters for them. Anyway I thought since Valerie is so excited about the hamsters, we can at least 'satisfy' her for the time being.

But it's not exactly the best move.. for many nights this week, she woke up brawling, probably from some nightmare. It's hard to calm her down and each 'session' lasted for like 1-2 hrs. HB is really tired from this ordeal. We are very perplexed what was giving her all these nightmares as HX is out of town (meaning no one to fight with her).

Finally one of the night, she managed to calm down quite quickly and allowed me to cuddle her.. and I tried to probe to see what's bothering her.. so it went

Mom: Is it the school?
Val: no.. (very softly)
Mom: Is it the teachers?
Val: no..
Mom: Is it Nur (our maid)?
Val: no...
Mom: Is it hamsters?
Val: yes...
Mom: Why? (*shocked*)
Val: always fighting...

I was really taken aback. Ya, the hamsters fight.. the black one is very domineering and always pounce onto the white one when the latter comes out to eat/drink. Alot of times, the black one will even seek out the white one and they'll bite on each other. We've separated both hamsters on many occassions as the white one is getting thinner.

I dunno her peace-loving nature is a good thing or a bad thing. It pains me to see her so affected over 2 hamsters fighting. I hope she can learn to cope with such situations as life is definitely not a bed of roses..