The minute hamster is nearly six-weeks-old but only measures about one-and-a-half-inches long and can fit comfortably inside an egg cup. Pebbles was the runt of a litter of about 20 born on Christmas Day.
Owner Gillian Lowe, 51, assumed the frail creature would die but was delighted when feisty Pebbles survived along with her six normal-sized siblings.
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Ms Lowe, from Geldeston, near Beccles, said: “The mother will usually keep the strongest ones and eat the rest.
“After a couple of weeks they started to get their hair and I saw this little one. I thought it would die for sure, but despite staying really small she has survived.
“She is now thriving and does everything the others do. The others are a normal size, as are the mum and dad, but she will not grow any more.”
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