Homemade paper cotton, is a hamster breeding process is a very important essential item, you can buy the finished product from the Internet, the finished product is a whole piece of pulp paper, do not add any artificial dyes, cut into finger-wide strips of paper, because after the hamster gives birth to cubs, it will be instinctively driven to find the material to make a nest, if you can't find it, it will be very anxious, although the owner may have prepared a nest for it, but it is useless, it can only use its own nest to feel at ease.

The paper cotton was given to the children by Zhang Zi'an for free, and a pack was only ten yuan, so that the children could cut it into strips.

The children were surprised to see the female hamster eating a paper strip.

"Is the mother hamster hungry, and why do you eat paper cotton?" asked Celery worriedly.

"yes, do you want to feed it something, what if it's hungry and eats the little hamster?" the other child chimed in.

"Do you think it's eating? No, it just stores paper cotton in its cheek pouch to make it easier to carry and build a nest, and the reason why it has to cut the paper into finger-wide strips is because it's too wide for its mouth to eat......

After the paper cotton is transferred in its mouth, it will become softer after being saliva, so it cannot be replaced by ordinary sawdust, which is too hard for it to eat, and it is not suitable for nesting.

It eats several strips of paper cotton into its cheek pouch, then runs back to its cubs, spits out the paper cotton, and begins to build a nest without a teacher, and then runs to the corner to eat the paper cotton.

"Wouldn't it be nice to put the paper cotton closer together?" a child asked, "Save it from running back and forth, it's very hard for it to just give birth, right?"

Zhang Zi'an nodded, "It's really hard, but the production and transportation of paper cotton will inevitably get the smell of people, let it eat it and then spit it out, it can cover the smell of humans with its own smell, so it can't be too close." ”

The children looked at the busy hamster mother, who had just given birth and had been physically exhausted, but she still worked tirelessly to go back and forth over and over again, building a shelter for the children, and couldn't help but respect it.

Zhang Zi'an took the opportunity to say: "Your mother experienced much more pain than the hamster mother when she gave birth to you, and in order to take care of you growing up, she paid more hard work than the hamster mother, not only to take care of your food and clothing, and feed you mouthful, but also to run between home and work every day like a hamster mother, earning money in exchange for a bigger and more comfortable house, in exchange for delicious food, fun, and a happier life for you...... So you have to be considerate of your mother, don't always make her angry, and try to help her share some housework within your ability, which is the best reward for her. ”

Thinking of his mother's hard work on weekdays, but he often made her angry because of his studies and naughtyness, a few boys who were usually naughty lowered their heads in shame, and several girls who were already sensitive were even moved to wipe their tears.

If you just stand on the podium and nag, it will never have such an effect, and it will not be possible for children to intuitively understand the hardships of being a mother, and they must be allowed to see and feel it with their own eyes in order to leave a deep impression. If you can do this, the cost of buying a pet and the hard work of raising a pet will also be meaningful.

Whether it is a pet at home, or a school parenting class, the purpose is not simply to let children play, but to cultivate their love and sense of responsibility in the process of raising pets.

The children have already made up their minds that when they get home today, they will try to start learning to do housework, even if it is to help their mother sweep the floor or wipe the table.

"Little Celery is doing a good job of this, you have to learn more from her. Zhang Zian encouraged.

"I ...... I haven't done enough......" Little Celery lowered her head in embarrassment.

Wang Yaning was a little embarrassed, she studied very well, and spent her spare time doing problems and various interest classes, and her mother didn't let her do housework.

In the process of whispering conversation, the mother hamster has moved all the paper cotton in the corner, dug a shallow pit in the sawdust, put the cubs in it, and then covered it with paper cotton to make a simple and warm nest, after all, the newborn hamster is hairless, and the ability to keep warm is very poor.

"Won't baby hamsters suffocate?" someone asked worriedly, seeing that the paper cotton had covered all the hamster cubs.

"Don't worry, that's the benefit of paper cotton and sawdust, there's a lot of space in between, you can breathe, no problem. Zhang Zi'an said, and then took the food bowl commonly used by the female hamster, opened a bag of small steamed buns with goat milk and eggs purchased online, put a few into it, and then put it into a cardboard box as food for the female hamster to supplement his physical strength.

Although he tries to encourage the children to prepare their own pet supplies, baking is too difficult for the children.

The female hamster was still busy making the nest, and even when he prepared food, he didn't have time to eat, but just hurriedly licked a sip of water as he passed by the water cooler to replenish the water lost due to production.

"You have an electric kettle here, tomorrow you can bring an egg, boil the egg in plain water, after boiling, break off the egg white the size of a fingernail and feed it to it, give it protein, don't feed too much, the rest can be fed to other hamsters." Zhang Zi'an commanded.

"I see someone feeding hamsters with bread worms, wouldn't it be better to eat live food?" asked one boy.

The girls all wrinkled their faces in disgust and said, "Don't be a breadworm, it's disgusting!"

Zhang Zi'an stood on the girls' side this time and agreed: "It's best not to feed bread worms, for domestic pets, live food is not necessarily good, because live food may carry bacteria, and bread worms themselves also have slight toxins." ”

In the blink of an eye, a small bulge had formed from the place where the hamster cub was located, and there was almost no trace of the cub.

In the end, the finished mother hamster was finally satisfied, and she also got under the paper cotton, if it were not for the paper cotton still squirming slightly, it would even make people mistakenly think that the cardboard box was empty.

"How does the mother hamster take care of the baby hamster? The children said sadly, but the paper cotton completely obscured the view.

"If you really want to see it, there is a way, aren't there other hamster mothers who are about to give birth? Find an ordinary glass fish tank, or an acrylic transparent hamster cage, and spread the sawdust a little thinner, so that you can look up from the bottom, maybe you can see how the hamster mother takes care of the baby. Zhang Zi'an gave them an idea.

The children suddenly realized that they were full of anticipation for the next delivery process.