A Calgary animal rescue is scrambling to find homes for 35 hamsters after a woman unknowingly brought home a pregnant hamster from a pet store.

The Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society (AARCS) says a community member reached out earlier this month after the situation quickly got out of control.

“There was a couple of issues where they chewed out of their enclosure and got back in with each other,” AARCS director of animal care Amy Cope told CityNews.

“So unfortunately, they did continue to reproduce, and then she had more litters and then all of a sudden she found herself with about 35 hamsters in her place.”

Some of the hamsters were born blind and deaf without eyes. According to a 1998 Oxford research paper, these are anophthalmic white Syrian hamsters, resulting from breeding two hams

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