I put everyone on paper, gerbils and hamsters; and I clean weekly;
the gerbils don't knock you over like a hamster will, especially at
three weeks out.
When I first got my menagerie expansion (to add gerbils) I let a
cage go and noted how much it smelled and when. I quit the
experiment at 3 weeks (two nearly grown juveniles in a 10 gallon
glass aquarium on shredded recycled paper) and can say, that
at a week, the cage generally doesn't smell at all. UNLESS the
waterbottle leaks because some dimbulb jumped up there and
chewed a hole in it while chewing the hang loop off it.
You must have a bladder infection or something like the scent-
in-wood-stuff problem mentioned.
Deb
Rebel's Rodent Ranch
>I have 35 and can't smell it either.
>~*~Fran~*~
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>Subject: Re: urine problem , what can be done ?
>
>> From my experience (I now have 13 gerbils) gerbils should not urine
>> frequently, or mark with urine, and the smell should be very mild.
>> Perhaps there is some sort of medical problem here (?)
>>
>> gerbils4 wrote:
>>
>> > hello allI love my gerbils and I dont mind giving them all the space
>> > they need in my room , I dont even mind the animal scent they
>> > producethe problem is with ... well , their urine .I dont know if it
>> > just my gerbils , or maybe all gerbils are like that , but when ever
>> > they are in a "new" place the first thing they do is to mark it with
>> > their urinethe thing is that they consider their place as "new" every
>> > time after I have cleaned it !so in a few hours it has such a smell
>> > that I'm having a problem to even get near it .does anyone has this
>> > kind of problem too ?do you have any suggestions what can I do
>> > ? thankshila.
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