At 08:06 PM 1/13/00 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In a message dated 1/13/00 2:06:25 PM Central Standard Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << Just because gerbils are less
> expensive doesn't mean they don't deserve to have good homes. >>
>I never thought of it that way. I'll bet my mom and dad almost think I'm
>crazy for being so careful with who these 5 inch gerbils are given to. It
>seems--I don't know, strange? weird? odd? crazy?--to me when I think about
it
>too, I guess--after all, in Mongolia these guys are just as big of a pest as
>(wild) rats and mice are here in many places.
Well, in some places in SE Asia, people eat dogs. I thought it was an Urban
Legend until I looked it up. They still do it. Dog is supposed to make men
more macho, so to speak.
> I'll bet they're [neighbors] more comfortable with me
>keeping gerbils than they would be if my brother Ben strated keeping roaches
>again and then started breeding them, lol(I can just imagine the looks on
>some people's faces : 0-), )
Keeping roaches *"again"*? oh, my... What an... interesting young man your
brother must be.... Maybe you could suggest a nice fish tank to him. Have
you ever met Texas Wood Roaches? They're like 5 inches long and they fly.
Often AT you. Supposedly that's why cowboy boots are pointed: for killing
cockroaches in corners. ;)
> << One woman put it: "Our babies can always come home." >>
>That may be another problem. I haven't talked about taking any gerbils back
>who need to be taken back yet with my mom(also, we're moving this summer),
>but I get the feeling she and dad wouldn't be very happy if someone couldn't
>keep a gerbil anymore and returned it to us. It seems like that wouldn't
>matter much anyway, since I assume gerbils aren't returned much(especially
>with precautions taken to be sure they'd have good owners who could and
would
>care for them)(right??)
Plus they don't live very long, relatively speaking, even with the best of
care.
> and we won't be here in Florida much longer, anyway
>and will be moving next summer. I get the feeling not many people would go
>all the way to Colorado, or Mongomery Alabama, even(those are our most
likely
>spots to be assigned to) just to return a gerbil to the person who gave it
to
>them : 0-),
Just don't let your brother bring his cockroach collection anywhere NEAR
Texas, thankyouverymuch. =)
all the best,
Rebecca...
