I don't remember how long I had my gerbils when I was a girl, but they were
in plastic and never chewed out. Oh, yes, they chewed, but never through.
I have my two in a Safari cage but I inspect it at least daily when I check
for fresh food and water. I don't think anyone needs to throw out anything
just because some gerbils have been problematic. I DO think the cage needs
to be inspected frequently, though.
----- Original Message -----
From: Chad Leigh, Shire.Net LLC and Pengar Enterprises, Inc.
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Cage hookups
> Hi Jamie
>
> Go buy an aquarium (with wire mesh lid) and either throw out your
plastic
> cage or stick it inside the aquarium as an internal playhouse.
>
> Plastic cages are soon chewed through by Gerbils and you will have
> escapees. Believe me I know! I would somewhat regularly have escapees
> until I ditched all the plastic cages for glass aquariums and wire lids.
> Since then I have had 0 escapees except recently when I had to use a
> plastic cage temporarilly after separating some fighting animals and not
> having any free aquariums. While I was away over the holidays they chewed
> their way out and my housemmate had to go catch them again!! And also, I
> had one escapee over the holidays out of an aquarium that had a plastic
lid
> that needs a rock on it and my housemate left the rock off :-(
>
> Anyway, the plastic Harz / SAMS look neat and are fun but are like swiss
> cheese when it comes to escapes and chew-throughs. The worst for chew
> throughs are the separate little feed attachments and the skyrooms and
> stuff like that.
>
> best of luck
> Chad
>
> --On Monday, January 10, 2000 12:08 PM +0000 Jamie H
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> wrote:
>
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Well, I got one little cage hookup the pipes. They love them I was
> > wondering what else you thinki should get.. Im thinking of getting 2 oe
3
> > pipes and a little restinglounge house thingy that they climb up the
> > pipes and sit in there and they can have a great view of my living room.
> > What do you think?? BTW: my cage is a Hartz cage
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jamie
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