I use a small container (a tupperware container) to get my gerbils out of the cage. or I use half a habitrail tube (part of one of their homes is habitrail), I wait for them to get curious enough to get inside and then I scoop up the thing that they have crawled into. and from there I either scoop them up and give them a minute to get used to being in my hand before I try to move them anywhere (which I have to do for Foxy) or I wait for them to jump into my hand (which Jaws does...and the Molly and Dante, the parents of the babies, I just try to leave them alone cause they hate me with a passion..I let my boyfriend pick them up cause they don't mind him) Hope this helps Heather ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 9:37 PM Subject: New gerbils -- cleaning tank > Hi, > > I got my gerbils today. :) They already redesigned the > aquarium, but I'd like to rearrange it myself. I had > to do a hasty rescue after the DEH got trapped behind > the 'den'. That caused a lot of bedding scatter and so > one part of the tank is basically bare. I'd like to > take the gerbils out and put them in the plastic tank > they were shipped in to tuck more bedding behind there > and also make it safer so they can't get trapped > again. > > I was planning on giving them some dust to bathe in > while I was cleaning up the aquarium -- how should I > transfer them to the plastic tank? I don't want to > scare them or possibly make them afraid of my hands.. > can I just do the "scoop" method? > > They're sleeping right now. :) Have been sleeping most > of the day with little wake-up times to try out the > wheel, chew, eat, and drink. *g* And also frantically > dig at the glass. o_o; > > Cheers, > Christina > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
