Re: Emergency - Update

[Evergreen Gerbils Ltd.]

Hello all, So far, so good.  She's still alive, and she's started twitching her hind legs a bit now and then.  She's not been able to eat yet, so I've been feeding her as much KMR as she'll take a couple times a day.  Another theory popped into my head last night as I walked into the gerbil room and startled another of my gerbils:  Is it possible that perhaps she was startled by something and ran into the glass?  Could a gerbil run fast enough to run into the wall of the cage with enough force to hurt herself?  She's fairly new to her surroundings, and perhaps doesn't know the boundaries of her cage yet (I've only had her about a week).  She's housed in an 80 gallon tank, but I glued a pane of glass in the middle and separated it into two 40 gallon cages, and with bedding on either side of the glass, I even have a hard time noticing that it's there.  Maybe she tried to run to the other end of the 80 gallon tank, only to be stopped halfway by an "invisible" glass wall?  Is this possible, anybody know?   Either way, she's alive and seems to be doing fairly well, considering the circumstances. -----Original Message----- From: Gerbil Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Janet Morrow Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Emergency How is she doing today?  I am hoping to hear that she made it through the night and is regaining some of the use to her back legs!   Janet & Elizabeth Mountain Ash