>I had my first experience with escaped gerbils last night.
>I had two 6-month old females in a cage with a plastic bottom. Sure
enough,
>after a month of being in this cage they chewed through it. I never
noticed
>it, so they must have chewed through it pretty quickly. It took me an hour
>of enticing them with sunflower seeds, but I captured both of them last
>night!
>At least it keeps my life interesting.....I'm glad they're both allright.
Two days ago, one of my blacks escaped his tank; leaving his mate
behind. I spent a day and half trying to corner him; even laying out
quite a smorgasboard in the live trap; and I swear he'd emerge just
to laugh at me and go run off again.
I finally trapped him behind a dresser, stuff rammed in on both sides
to keep him between the wall and back of dresser. He scrambled up
my arm as I tried to catch him...
Then ran into a piece of 2" pvc pipe I had put down as a potential
trap...I dropped a teeshirt at one end...he'd emerged at the other,
and decided I was too close so went back for the pipe. I stuck a
bottle of throat spray into my end of the tube and got around the
desk before he could get out the tee shirt end and hoisted him
back to his tank.
He was p'ed to put it mildly. She took him back though, and a little
judicial use of duct tape will make sure that lid stays on.
Catching hamsters is a LOT easier!
