"It's awake! It's awake! My hamster woke up! "Little Celery shouted excitedly.
"Mine too!"
"This one moved too!"
Not only hers, but the other hamsters also woke up one after another. They wriggled their bodies in the hands of the children, opened their eyes, and saw the familiar yet strange world again.
Zhang Zian had already poured out the urine sand in the utensils and replaced it with pure wood shavings. He dug a small hole and let everyone put the awakened hamsters in it, then covered them with wood shavings.
Everyone felt sorry for the hamsters that had escaped from the jaws of death. They wanted to hold them for a while longer, but Zhang Zian reminded them, "If your palms are sweaty, it's best not to hold them for too long. Otherwise, the sweat will get on the hamsters and make them lose body heat faster."
The children were nervous, and their palms were sweaty to varying degrees. They quickly put them back on the wood shavings. The hamsters instinctively dug the hole and curled up in the wood shavings.
Their confidence was greatly boosted, and they continued to do the same thing, waking up the hamsters one by one. Later, they even secretly competed to see who could wake up the most hamsters. Seeing the little lives being reborn, they gained a great sense of joy and pride in their hearts. Needless to say, they were very excited!
However, there was only one hamster that did not wake up. It was the three-line hamster that lived in the birdcage. Everyone took turns rubbing their hands, then held it in their palms, desperately breathing hot air on it, but it still did not move, as if it was really dead.
"So stupid! Watch me! "Wang Yaning pushed the others aside and held it confidently.
She had saved the most hamsters before, and even had the illusion that her body temperature was higher than the others.
However, she held it in various positions for a long time, but the hamster still did not move.
"What... what's going on? The hamster can't be dead, right? "she asked suspiciously.
"Brother Store Manager, why hasn't this hamster woken up yet?" Little Celery was so anxious that her face was red. The others also looked at him eagerly.
"Because this hamster is the most frozen," Zhang Zian said, pointing to the birdcage that was ventilated on all sides.
Hamsters' ability to regulate their own body temperature was very poor. Their living quarters should be warm in winter and cool in summer. In summer, they should be ventilated to avoid direct sunlight, and in winter, they should be sheltered from wind and avoid large temperature differences between day and night. On the other hand, this birdcage was not even close to being sheltered from the wind. If it was summer, it would be a good place to stay.
"Then what should we do?" Little Celery grabbed her pigtail. "We don't have anything else. Our teacher doesn't encourage us to spend money on everything …"
"Your teacher is right. However, there is no need to spend money. The solution is very simple." Zhang Zian took an empty cardboard box from the corner and put it upside down on the birdcage. "Isn't this fine? You just need to dig a few small holes at the top of the cardboard box for ventilation, fasten it at night, and remove it during the day to keep warm and away from the wind. In fact, it's better to raise it directly in cardboard boxes. "
"Now we must make every possible effort. Do you have a towel? Something thicker, "he asked.
The children all offered their towels.
Zhang Zian found a cup and filled it with hot water. Then he put a few layers of towels on the cup lid and put the hamster that had not woken up yet in the towel.
The normal body temperature of a hamster was higher than that of a human. If they could not wake up from their fake hibernation with the body temperature of a human, they could only resort to hot water. In practice, they had to be careful. If they did not control the temperature well or did not use a towel to insulate themselves, they could easily be scalded. However, as he said, they could only make every possible effort.
While waiting for the results, Zhang Zian did not stay idle. He asked two little boys to help him carry the shelf from the north window to the south window, where the lighting was better.
The school's feeding room was not small, but there was only one air conditioner. For the whole room, the heating effect was limited. The most important thing was that he had heard from the children that in response to the school's call to save electricity, the air conditioner had to be turned off at night. No wonder the hamsters had all entered a fake hibernation state last night or this morning.
Zhang Zian wanted to help, but he could not. He had to let the children apply to the school so that the air conditioner could not be turned off at night. Otherwise, none of the hamsters would survive. Saving energy and reducing emissions was a good thing, but it also depended on the situation.
Wang Yaning seriously recorded the matter in a small notebook. Compared to the other children, it was more suitable for her to be responsible for negotiating with the school.
"It's moving!"
"Come and see! It's awake! "
Little Celery and the other girl shouted almost at the same time, clapping their hands excitedly.
The hamster that was wrapped in a towel opened its eyes and looked around. It stuck its nose out and sniffed around, as if wondering why it was wrapped like a sandwich. It twisted its body and tried to get out of the towel, but was held down by Little Celery in time. If its delicate claws touched the metal cup lid directly, it was likely to be scalded.
"That's great! It's finally awake! "
The two little boys were equally excited. Their four little heads were all squeezed together to watch the hamster that had escaped from death. Although Wang Yaning also wanted to see, she was worried about her identity as a class leader and held back.
"It's good that it's awake. In the future, be careful about keeping them warm." Zhang Zian was also relieved. If the hamster had died because of the children's negligence, they would probably feel guilty for a long time.
"Come here and look at this." He called them together and asked them to pay attention to the sawdust and urine sand that had just been replaced.
"Do you know what this is?" he asked, pointing to a few lumps of brown, soft things.
Little Celery raised her hand. "I know! It's a hamster's poop! "
"That's right." Zhang Zian looked at her encouragingly. "But Little Celery, have you noticed? The hamster in my shop, Xiao Ling, what color is its poop? What does it look like? "
"This …" Little Celery tried to think, but her observation skills were really not that good.
Wang Yaning frowned and said, "It seems to be black, right? Little by little. "
She had come to Zhang Zian's pet shop with Little Celery last time. She didn't expect Little Celery to have such a good memory.
Zhang Zian nodded. "A normal hamster's poop is like that, black particles, but this …" He pointed to the soft brown poop mixed in the urine sand. "This kind of soft poop needs to be careful. It might develop into a fatal enteritis."
The children looked at each other.
"What should we do?"
"Do we need an injection?"
"Can we take medicine?"
They all asked at the same time. They didn't want the hamster that they had just saved to be in danger again. When it came to injections and medicine, their faces didn't look too good. They probably suffered a lot from injections and medicine …
"We don't need injections or medicine. It's winter now. We all have apples at home, right? We can make our own dried apples. It's very effective against the hamster's soft poop, "Zhang Zian added. "Although it's more convenient to buy dried apples online, didn't your teacher advocate making your own food and clothing? Then make your own dried apples. It's not too much trouble. "
He told them how to make dried apples and asked them to make their own when they got home today. Tomorrow, they would see who brought the best dried apples.
The method of making dried apples was very simple. Peel and core the apples, cut them into thin slices, boil them in a pot or electric kettle, take them out, spread them on a plate, and heat them in the microwave for two or three minutes. Then, turn them over and reheat them for two or three minutes. Then, they could take them to the balcony to dry. It would be even more convenient if there was an air dryer at home.
Then, he reminded them, "Although dried apples are good, you can't eat too much of them. If you eat too much, hamsters will get constipated."
Fortunately, he had deliberately followed Little Celery to take a look. Otherwise, even if the hamsters didn't die from fake hibernation, they would probably die from diarrhea and dehydration caused by enteritis.
The others listened carefully and asked questions when they didn't understand. Wang Yaning wrote quickly. She felt that she had learned a lot today and could all be included in the feeding report. Before, she had been very worried because there was nothing to write. Even if she did write, it would be very empty and boring. But today, she realized that the seemingly ordinary feeding process contained a lot of details and wisdom. It was worth thinking about when she got home.
The children were very scared after hearing that. They felt that raising hamsters wasn't as easy as they had imagined. In other words, life was very fragile and needed to be carefully cared for and cherished. They were happy to save a life, but it was painful to watch a life pass by. They already understood the value of life better than most children of their age.
Zhang Zian looked at them with relief. He had always thought that children who liked to raise pets wouldn't be violent, and the facts proved that.
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