We've got a gerbil that deserves to have a special name and we haven't been
able to come up with one. I've seen so many creative names posted by the
group that I thought I'd ask for advice.
Our gerbil is a little gray fellow with dark red eyes. When he was a young
pup he sprang out of my son's hand and landed on the tile floor. For a while
we thought he wasn't going to survive. His head was tilted so much that he
would fall over when he walked.
Well, he survived all right! He still has a head tilt but that doesn't slow
him down in the least. He's an absolute lunatic! He has no sense of heights
and will leap off of anything. He never walks - he runs at top speed
everywhere he goes. He runs so fast on the wheel that you can't see his feet
and then he stops dead in his tracks, flips upside down and goes flying out
of the wheel sometimes slamming into the wall of the cage. Then he leaps
back up and onto the wheel again. The only time he's ever still is when he's
sleeping.
He's really hysterical to watch and he's almost impossible to hold since he
moves so fast and will leap out of your hands or off your shoulder without
warning.
I call him "the lunatic". But I think he needs a better name.
Got any ideas for a hyperactive gerbil?
Thanks,
Debbie
