Pretty good idea, although knowing mine to be the jumpers they are, they
would most likely jump out unless it were a fairly deep bucket. But
then, wouldn't the fall into the bucket hurt them if it were too deep?
george champlin wrote:
>
> I think a good way is to put a bucket in the middle of
> the floor with a ramp to it. Make a line of treats up
> the ramp and fill the bucket with food. Check every
> hour or so and soon you will find your gerbil safe and
> sound in the bucket.
>
> --- Deb Rebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >A few weeks ago I posted here re: a humane trap,
> > called a Ketch-all,
> > >available from Real Goods. Please do NOT use one of
> > these to trap
> > >escaped gerbils.
> > >
> > >I bought one of these b/c I thought it would be
> > useful in case of a
> > >gerbil escape. To test it out, I set it up and let
> > Pippin climb in. It
> > >caught his back foot and tail! What was worse, I
> > hadn't read the
> > >directions closely enough to open the trap quickly.
> > I eventually got
> > >the thing open and rescued poor Pippin. He was
> > smart enough to remain
> > >still, and he had no apparent injuries. He lost a
> > little fur from his
> > >tail, but no blood. Quite possibly I was more upset
> > than he was.
> > >
> > >Anyway, I just wanted to make sure nobody used one
> > of these for
> > >gerbils! Based on my experience, I believe it could
> > cause significant
> > >injury to a trapped gerbil.
> >
> >
> > Julie, I have a cousin to that trap, a "Havahart"
> > sized 'for squirrels'.
> > I purchased it to catch syrian hamsters who seemed
> > to delight in
> > running loose through the house.
> >
> > For a tailless animal, like a syrian over four
> > weeks, or a dwarf
> > campbell over three months, or any chinese dwarf
> > over four
> > months, it worked well. Once I bent the pan trigger
> > so it was
> > really really sensitive. The animal would have to
> > go so far into
> > the trap to set it off, that the ends dropping would
> > not catch it.
> >
> > Any dwarf campbell younger than three months, would
> > not trip
> > it. And any gerbil I have had, won't trip it. The
> > campbell, is
> > too light and small to trip the pan. The gerbils
> > are too sneaky
> > to trip the pan.
> >
> > I have always had to manually 'run down' sneak up
> > and corner
> > and hand catch, my gerbils. The live trap if I'd
> > bought it for
> > them I consider it to have been a waste. It still
> > works for errant
> > hamsters, and is still set up in the rodentry.
> >
> > Last night I had a gerbil manage to pop a hatch and
> > get out
> > of his cage; and he totally ignored the smorgasboard
> > glued
> > to the pan of the live trap with peanut butter, and
> > came out to
> > the family room to thump in the corner....and was
> > rounded up
> > by hand quickly.
> >
> > So. I think everyone would do better to just work
> > on their sneaking
> > techniques so they can sneak up to their loose
> > gerbils...
> >
> > Deb
> > Rebel's Rodent Ranch
>
> =====
> GEOCHAMP
>
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