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From: "Persky, Hilary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: gerbils eye stuck shut
> I've seen this, or think I have; sometkmes they need to scratch their eyes
> open after sleep, although rarely. I can't say it ever seemed to be
> associated with problems that I could tell.
I've also exerience this with one of my male gerbils. Seemed like everytime
he woke up, he had to rub his left eye a little in order for it to open. It
seemed that his eye had just enough 'goop' in it for it to be stuck shut. He
didn't have any other signs of illness. It has been 4 or 5 months since I
last seen him like this.
Ann-Marie L. Roberts
T&T Gerbils
Escanaba, MI
AGS member MI004
Please visit my website at:
http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Reserve/1928/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: franklyn 1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 6:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: gerbils eye stuck shut
>
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I noticed a wierd thing tonight with Clifford. I went in to check on
> everyone and when I walked past Clifford he just sat there with his one
eye
> shut. I thought uh oh he's sick and opened the lid and scooped him out.
> While I held him his eye slowly opened. His eye looks fine now and he's
not
> clicking or anything, as soon as I put him in he went to his wheel and
> started running it. Could he be getting sick? There is no discharge from
his
> eye that I could see (yet). I cleaned the acquarium out today and put
fresh
> corncob and aspen back in. Should I start antibiotic just in case or wait
> until he does seem sick? Ideas?
>
> Thank you >Cindi
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