Hello gerbil people! My name's James. I'm 16, and I live in Bremen Georgia (USA). Quite a few weeks ago, my dad and his wife's friend have gotten a snake. They brought it to my dad's house because they were bombing their's. Later, when they thought the fumes were out of the house, they brought their snake back. But the fumes were still present (they should have sucked it from the house). So they brought the snake back to dad's house. They had a feeding mouse they were planning on feeding to the snake before he got resperatory problems, but the snake was dying and he wouldn't eat. After the snake did die, I kept the feeding mouse as a pet. My dad's wife saw how good I cared for the mouse (who we named Spike because he eats dogfood, and has lived longer than anyone would have expected btw), so she offered to buy me a small pet. I wanted a hamster at the time, but they didn't have any, so I got a Gerbil. I got the Gerbil, and later that night, I went to some Gerbil help sites. I found Gerbils were social animals, and Cedar could cause resperatory problems, so I went back to the petshop to get some Aspen and another Gerbil. My Gerbils: My first one, Chibi-chan, is the runt of the litter. I originally named her Sebring because I didn't know she was a female. She's had one eye taken by an infection (her right) because I didn't know anything about Gerbils at the time (she had the infection when we bought her! I didn't do it). My second one, Sebring, is an older brother from the same litter. They're both about the same age, but Sebring is almost twice as large as Chibi-chan because she's a runt. I haven't gone to any of those Gerbil genetics pages yet, but I suppose I should check them to find what kind of gerbils I have. Well anyway, I joined this Gerbil list because I really liked Gerbils! I want to learn more about them. Since a 10 gallon tank is just too small for them (to me) (that's what they gave me when I bought it), I'm going to make them a larger cage. I also want to find out what would be good food to give them if I wanted to give them a hand-picked diet. So there you have me and my Gerbils! Soon I want to build a home page for my Gerbils. ===== _|_ |_ _ _| _ _ _ _ _ |_ | | |_| | | |_| | |/_ |_| |_| | | _/ "The little Librarian" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/