The split cage introduction shouldn't take months
within a few days to a week (with plenty of switching
sides back and forth every day) they should be
settling down with each other. If they don't get
along after this amount of time, you could try another
week, but then I would give up.
I would find a local breeder and give Fred and a split
cage to the breeder. Have the breeder find a
compatible pup and then return to you a bonded
same-sexed pair. Your parents might agree to that. I
know it doesn't matter so much the number of gerbils
as the number of tanks.
I would definately go with a pup for Fred. He's
probably be a bit traumatized by George and needs a
non threating match who he can nuture (my guess)
Donna
ABC Gerbils
www.abcgerbils.com
--- Leenknegt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> HI,
> Fred is 5 months old. I bought him from a breeder at
> ten weeks old. Then I
> put him in a split cage with, what I found out very
> soon, a very agressif
> male, George (17 weeks). Every day he spent hours
> gnawing the mesh of the
> divder. Every time Fred came to close to the
> divider, he attacked it. This
> lasted 2,5 months. Then I finally put them together
> and George immediatly
> attacked Fred. I separated them, and now they are in
> diferent cages.
> I would like to pair up Fred, with a five week old
> male. My parents say I
> can't buy another gerbil, 'cause we already have 6.
> So maybe, if I can proof
> that Fred WILL accept the five week old, I might buy
> one.
> So here comes the question: Is it possible that Fred
> is embittered by this
> split cage, and will make problems accepting a new
> partner?
>
> During the split cage, and the attacks from George,
> Fred was afraid to come
> near the divider, but the last one or two weeks, I
> found them sometimes with
> the noses together. George would go bizerk then,
> cause he couldn't finish
> Fred off.
> Have you had any difficulty with paring up the
> non-agressif gerbil of a
> failed split cage?
> Thanks for ANY response!
> Sarah
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