>did you ever seen anything like that happen to a gerbil??????
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>Spela
I personally never have because I NEVER give them anything
like that. Ask Lorraine Hill at the Complete Hamster Site, she
is documenting hamsters and gerbils being maimed and killed
by fluffy bedding, as she's trying for legislation to prevent the
stuff as being labeled 'safe' for small animals.
Deb
Rebel's Rodent Ranch
>Deb Rebel wrote:
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>> >I give my gerbils cloth too. When i tear up some of my old
>> >clothes and use them as cloth for cleaning or something i
>> >give it to my gerbils too.
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>> >Spela
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>> NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> Cloth has threads and fibers that can wrap around limbs
>> and amputate them, around necks and choke, and if ingested,
>> causes painful and deadly intestinal blockages. Part of the
>> thread can lodge in one part, the other try to continue down
>> the intestinal passage, and it literally saws their insides
>> apart! Or, just blocks the passage totally.
>>
>> Never EVER give your gerbils cloth. Nothing may have
>> happened so far, but it's just a ticking time bomb, that is
>> waiting to happen. You will be unlucky eventually, your
>> gerbils will be badly hurt or dead, and it is so easily
>> avoidable!
>>
>> Give them unscented undyed toilet tissue if you want to
>> give them bedding. It is soft enough and it will be warm
>> enough for them, if you give them enough, to make a nice
>> nest.
>>
>> Deb
>> Rebel's Rodent Ranch
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