Questioning petsmart employees?

Question

is it possible that petsmart employees gave me one female and one male hamster after saying they were both female? lol just wondering or is it very easy when hamster are probably very young to tell the difference. i just hope my hamsters were getting territorial and not having babies hah just want your opinion!

Answer 1

It's entirely possible.  Pet store employees are not necessarily trained in any way and are not typically capable of sexing most animals.  I would absolutely separate the hamsters until you know for sure.

If they are syrian hamsters then they must be separated anyway as they are a solitary species and will fight to the point of serious injury or death.

Answer 2

its pretty easy to tell the difference between a male and female, but at stores like petco they order the pets and they put the males in 1 tank and the females in another so its not the employees fault so much as the sellers for mislabeling them probably