Well, my two little pups are now five days old! I got scared that these two wouldn't survive after the third one died on the first night (fear brought on by Ophelia's first litter, which had only two pups and didn't survive), but they're doing GREAT! They're starting to get a tiny bit of fuzz now, and they've got little 'Vulcan Ears', as I've started to call them! ;) If anyone wants to look, here's the URL to a picture of them (hopefully it'll work): http://www.geocities.com/pageofluff/day5.jpg Alright, anyway, to my question! With there being only two pups, my next worry is that they might not both be the same sex. I have to wait until around Day 10 before I can determine their sex, right? Have any of you had an experience where there were only two pups, but one of them was male and the other female? I don't plan on selling my gerbils as breeding pairs, because the mother and father are also brother and sister, I think, so there's no way I'm going to be able to keep the pups together if they ARE two different sexes. And I can't keep them with the parents once they're sexually mature, nor would I want to put them each in a separate tank by themselves. So if any of you have had this problem, what do you do? Start advertising early so that there will be people to adopt each of them by the time they're ready to be sold? I know that's probably a silly question, but indulge me...this is only my first time! ;) Oh yeah...this question didn't get answered the last time (unless I accidentally deleted the response), so hopefully it's alright to ask again. Is it still possible to join the Gerbil and Jird webring? I didn't get the HTML code either in email form, or on the page following the application, so I wasn't sure if it's still working or not! Thank you, guys (again)! :) ~*~Amber~*~ The Eisen Clan http://burrow.envy.nu/index.html
