>Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 18:25:04 -0600
>To: "Rena T. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: Michelle Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: To breed or not.....???
>
>At 08:00 PM 6/22/01, you wrote:
>>I am thinking of mating my gerbil with another gerbil across the street
>>(a friend of mine). Anyway, this is what I want to do...tell me if this
>>will work. I want to take one of my females (I have two, together) and
>>put her in to breed with the male in a split cage at first then.....but
>>I am wondering if my other female will miss her and can I bring her back
>>and put her in after they...if I introduce all over again.
>
>Bad, bad, bad, BAD idea. If you could get the female to accept the male in
>the first place, the chances of her re-bonding to her current cage mate are
>pretty much nil.
>
>
>>It is really cute, because the big fat male she has is a biter, but she
>>has been giving him seeds from her hand and gently and carefully giving
>>him a single pet on the head before she gets scared he will bite her and
>>she rips her hand out really quickly.
>
>Well, she needs to try to remove her hand BEFORE he bites her -- look for
>other behavioral clues to him getting defensive -- and to control herself
>enough not to jerk her hand away when he bites. That behavior "rewards" the
>biting by him getting left alone.
>
>She should try the bathtub technique -- put the critter in the tub with some
>seeds and get in on the opposite end, and let him come to her.
>
>
>Michelle
>Flutist
>
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