Hi Debbie -- our just turned 7 year old is the official gerbil namer in our
house, and she comes up with some great ones. She suggests: Crazy, Rush, or
Scurry.
PS -- I think it is a good point to pass on to every one having a first litter
that at a very young age a pup will leap right out of your hand. The same thing
happened to me the very first time I took my very first pup out of the tank
(about a week old). Fortunately it was only a couple of feet an onto a rug, so
she was okay; but man has that image stuck with me! We now take them out cupped
in two hands (one on top, one on bottom) and right onto a pillow. And we never
hold them more than a couple of inches over the pillow until they open their
eyes. Donna A.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
