Once when the animal was very frightened by being caught in something, and
in another instance we had a gerbil who liked to nip to play; he would nip,
and then run off. We began to say "NO!" quite loudly when he would nip, and
he would then sort of wriggle and run away. (All of this happened when he
was out to play in the living room.) He soon stopped altogether.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paige McDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Biting Gerbil
>
>
> Have many people on the list been nipped or bitten by their gerbils?
> (not including the exploratory mouthing or nibbling) Or is this rare?
>
> -- Donna A.
I've been bitten only twice, and both times I was seperating a fight between
2 gerbils that weren't very tame yet anyways. I had just gotten them. I used
to get nibbled on quite a bit, but now everyone exept the 'teenage' pups
just
climb onto my hand without any nibbling.
Paige
