Leenknegt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>Hi,
>
>I didn't get any response last time (except Donna but she misunderstood what
>I meant in my mail, yeah, I know it wasn't really clear.)
>So I'll ask it again: AFTER 2 gerbs were in a split-cage, what is the best
>place to take the divider out, with this I mean: where is the best place to
>put them really together, a complete unknown place like the bathtub, a cage
>with smells from other gerbils, just there usual cage,.. Are there any
>tricks to put them in a place, so they are very busy with examening the
>place and then suddenly realise there's another gerb in the room? Maybe let
>the less agressif gerb get in first to look around, so he feels a bit more
>comfortable, and then put the more agressif one with him, so that one is
>less agressif then he would normally be.
>Does anyone understand what I mean? If so, please respond! If this intro
>fails, I have two lonely gerbs, and it's a bit difficult for me to take
>ather gerbs in right now.
>Thank you very much for any response!
>Sarah
The whole point of the split cage is that you swop the gerbils over
periodically , like two or three times a day, so they get used to the
odour of the other gerbil in "their" territory. This means that both
gerbils get introduced to one another in a non-threatening way. Removing
them elsewhere before introducing them will undo all this good work.
introducing unknown gerbil odours will make this worse., Simply remove
the partition from where they are.
--
Julian
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National Gerbil Society
http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
