Hi
I read your story and i just wanted to let you know
that if you are breeding cloth is not a good thing to
use. the unbreakable little fibers can get rapped
around limbs and cut them clean off. Also the gerbils
can injest the fibers and it can cause intestenel (sp)
blockage. it can not be digested like paper. The best
thign to use for nesting is plane old white toilet
paper. The gerbisl love it and it is totaly safe.
Jocie K
--- Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I haven't been a gerbil owner all that long,
> but I do have
> overall experience with animals, and I must say, no
> one is crazy for
> thinking that they have personalities, or that they
> are trying to
> communicate! Even fish have personalities! I could
> rant out pages
> about all the different types I've come across, but
> since this IS a
> gerbil list... !
>
> I believe that once in awhile, you come across an
> animal whose
> personality is compatible with your own - just like
> once in awhile
> you come across a human who's personality is
> completely compatible
> with your own. S.A., when I used to be able to
> afford to horse back
> once a week, in the 3 years I rode, and all the
> horses my trainer had
> me try, there was this one special one that I just
> clicked with. His
> name was Bronze, such a pretty quarter horse he was!
> From day one, we
> just seemed to understand each other. I knew what he
> wanted, he knew
> what I wanted, and there was no need to repeat
> ourselves!
>
> It's the same way with gerbils. I don't know if it's
> just me, or if I
> just like to think I'm special :) but I always seem
> to have no
> trouble understanding what's going on in their
> minds. I only have 3
> gerbils, but after just a few days of knowing each
> one, it's kinda
> easy to pick out how they will react to me, and
> other things.
>
> Einstein, my first, a Dove male, really dislikes
> being picked up, but
> once he's settled in my hand, he's quite content to
> have me take him
> outside for a little sunbathing. He stretches right
> out in my hand
> while I gently pet him with a free finger. His
> little nose wiggles
> and his ears twitch listening to all the interesting
> sounds and
> smells around him, but not once is he inclined to
> leap from my hand.
> He could care less about chewing things up. He'll
> halfheartedly take
> a few nibbles out of his cardboard toys to let me
> know he appreciates
> them, but would rather dig tunnels under them than
> chew them up!
>
> Trinity, named by my husband (we have this
> all-encompassing deal, if
> the creature -human or otherwise- is a boy I get to
> name it, and if
> it's a girl, he gets to name it!) is a regular ol'
> Agouti, and while
> she has no problem with my hand being in the tank or
> being picked up,
> she doesn't seem to like being out as much, and
> would rather prefer
> to be back to someplace familiar. Otherwise she's
> VERY laid back. She
> let me actually handle Eclipse when he was only a
> day or two old, and
> had NO problem with my hand being in the tank. She's
> my CHEWER. She
> chews everything! She's put quite a dent in the PVC
> pipe I have in
> her tank, and shreds the cardboard boxes the day I
> give them to her,
> if not within the hour! I've had to start rationing
> them out. *L*
> She's is constantly moving and rearranging things,
> and never seems to
> be happy with the way things are.
>
> Eclipse, my little 5 week old Slate, is a charmer!
> Unlike his mom,
> he's quite content to sit in the middle of his
> feeding bowl and
> nibble at whatever. (His mom always takes a piece
> and goes off to eat
> it privately.) He's also a bit more of a nest
> builder than his mom
> seems to be, which I find rather odd. He'll pull the
> bits of
> half-chewed cloth (remnants of some courdoroy *sp*
> pants than I
> hemmed) into a bundle, then hollow out a little hole
> in the middle to
> curl up in, or under. Nothing seems to phase him. I
> can bang doors
> (by accident of course!) or run the vacuum, and he
> just sits and
> watches, but when I call him and put my hand in he
> comes running! He
> sniffs me all over, curious as to what I've been up
> to and who I've
> been spending time with besides him. When I sit with
> him he likes to
> perch under my chin. When he gets older I just know
> he'll be a big
> hit with the ladies! *L*
>
> I've heard that the eyes are the window to the soul,
> and I believe
> this to be true. There's a lot you can read in eyes,
> if you know how.
>
> And that's how I see them. :)
>
> -Jackie & The Copper Dragon Clan
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