Re: Update on the great rescue of 1 June-Rebel's Rodent Ranch Clan (RRRC]

[The JenniFUR Clan Jenn Thompson]

About the pups who were eaten, I think:  Do you have enough water in all the
cages?  You should check it everyday.  I have a male pair that love to chew
a tiny hole in their water  bottle, just enough so I think the water bottle
is fine but the water still drains out.  Do you have enough food in the
tanks?  Who do you think was eating the young?  Do you feed the gerbils
enough protien?  Do you feed them any meat (lunch meat, crickets, meal
worms, etc)?  Let us know how the pups are doing!

Happy Wheeks and Squeeks,
              -Jenni(the human behind The JenniFUR Clan)
              -the Gerbils(my little handfulls)
              -and Weeble(the female super cavy)

visit our web site at:
http://www.angelfire.com/nm/jennthompson

**GERBIL FOR SALE**- lone male, his cage mate recently died.  He needs a
good home.

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>From: Deb Rebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Deb Rebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Update on the great rescue of 1 June-Rebel's Rodent Ranch Clan
>          (RRRC]
>Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:29:25 -0600
>
>I managed to somehow collect 37 adult and juvenile gerbils,
>and an assortment of pups.  Some furred and creeping; some
>not; some just born, some born after the move.
>
>Sadly I have three pups left of the furred and creeping litter
>of nine.  All the rest disappeared within two or three days,
>two other litters made it to becoming furred....then disappeared.
>
>I took them a few days ago when I discovered the parts of a
>few in the tank...and the last three huddled in a small cardboard
>box I'd given the community.  (Ma, two younger females, a
>younger male).
>
>One had it's tail gone, so I considered that I had been in time
>to save these three.
>
>Yesterday I was ministering to them, and discovered that all
>three are also missing their hind paws.  Some to more of a
>degree than others...the one missing the tail is nearly legless
>in back.  One is more or less severed at the 'wrist'; and one
>has some bone shank sticking out. (which I am trying to get
>up the nerve to finish the amputation before gangrene sets
>in...<glerp>  I am used to being a veternarian's assistant and
>doing some pretty stomach turning medical stuff in the name
>of animal health, but this is stretching it.)
>
>Why don't I take them to the vet?  Forty bucks emergency
>visit; plus probably a hundred an animal for care.  To put
>them down is $25 each...
>
>  There is no joy today in the gerbil branch of the rodentry.
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