>><< Can you describe the stripes in more detail. Was there only one? How
>> wide? Was it very thin? Did it run right across the back?
>>
>> Did the gerbils have white bellies? >>
>>I don't know if they had white bellies, the stripes were black and thin
(they
>>were a quarter inch thin, and ran from the butt all the way up to the
ears) I
>>did notice that one of them had a white tail tip, but I don't know if that
>>means anything.
>> ~~~( 3:> Mary <:3 )~~~
>>P.S They had two stripes on either side of them.
>
>Are you sure they were gerbils? I have never seen gerbil striped like
>that. There are plenty of other rodents with stripes in that pattern
>though.
>
>It would be an unusual mutation. Could it have been some other species?
To me it sounds like a ground squirrel, or what we used to call
colloquially, a gopher....
Deb
Rebel's Rodent Ranch
