I only left mine in for my chin about 1/2 hour every night. She made a
terrible mess of it, otherwise, and I'd end up having to toss and and
refill her "bathing boat" (it was a mini tureen that I bought at a garage
sale.... between rollings, she'd sit up in it, looking like a wee Valkyrie
sailing along....) every night. If gerbils treat their bathing dust like
Madeline did, I wouldn't leave it in all the time.....
Tam
Deb Rebel wrote:
> >I saw on somebody's website that chinchilla dust shouldn't be left in
> >with your gerbils all the time, only for short periods of supervised
> >time. Is this true? If it is, why?
>
> They make a terrible mess of it. And often times, they will roll
> in it, then use the dish as a toilet, and anything kicked off into
> the bedding, they'll roll in that too.
>
> I give mine a dish of it before weekly cage cleaning, so they
> can enjoy it, then I can clean it all up. They get it for about
> thirty minutes once a week.
