Re: How do YOU see them?

[Amber White]

This is definitely a wonderful change of topic!

My mummy gerbil, Ophelia, is the really calm sort.  She LOVES getting
scratched behind her ears!  Whereas all my other gerbils panic and think that
something is about to bite them on the neck, Ophelia will lay flat in my
hand, and she actually sort of perks her ears forward a bit more so I can
scratch behind them!  ;)  It's so cute.  And she's become a *terrific*
mother.  There are times when she's got all her babies on her, feeding, and I
have to think, "How can you stand it?" LoL!  But she's very patient, and I've
held her little ones from Day 1, and she doesn't get overly worried or
skittish or anything like that.  Her husband, Hamlet, lets you pick him up,
but he doesn't enjoy the ear scratches and he'd rather run around on your
hands.  ^_^  But he's really calm with the babies, too, and it's so cute to
watch him lay over them to keep them warm!  Very good father...what a shock!  
;)

My DEH girl, Chloe, is my baby though!  She's always the one to come to the
front of her cage when she hears me come into the room....she'll get on her
hind legs and tilt her head so she's looking at me with one big dark eye,
which is so cute!  And she's shown herself to be a definite feminist
(fighting off men), which is so much like me that I can't help but love
her...she's like me in gerbil form.  ^_~

And I know this is about gerbils, but my two dwarf hamsters have SO much
personality!  They're both territorial females, so I can't stick my hand in
the cage to pick them up or they'll bite me.  But they LOVE coming out and
being held!  One of them, Sparkles, lets me know she wants out by climbing up
onto her lookout ledge and gnawing noisily on the bar that's eye-level with
her.  She won't stop until I've let her out for awhile, and then she goes
back in her cage and is totally happy!  The other one, Attitude, used to have
her cage in the living room.  Every time Mom or I came out with food (people
food), she would immediately trundle out from wherever she was (even if she
was sleeping) and start climbing the bars of her cage, nose twitching as she
sniffed the food!

Now, I wish my gerbils would act as eager to get out!  ;)  I guess I just
haven't trained/tamed them well enough to want to come see me, hehe!

~*~Amber~*~
The Eisen Clan
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