Sent to me in error -----Original message----- Subject: Gerbils, Rats, Avail $$$ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: a gangi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:52:37 -0700 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all, first I got a cute story for you all, then I got soem critters and supplies avilable described below. A few months back we had a female rat, a lovely himilayane downy rex named "downy". She had a litter but lost them all =( She was so obviously depressed over it all (can tell by their behavior) so we gave her a couple of gerbil babies. Now one died, but the other one lived and she totally doted on it and loved it. Its very cute and interestign to see what behaviors are inherient and what is learned. For example, there is this hanging rope "bridge" in the cage and downy, her mom and sister will climb up on sit in a row on this thing to watch me and beg for treats. Now how many gerbils do this? None of mine (and we got alot!). But now this little rat raised gerbil does it! The gerbil likes to try to sleep ontop of the rats (I think inherent from how gerbils sleep piled in a heap) and its funny to watch this tiny gerbil fall off a rat in its sleep then still sleep try to get back onto the rat, and the rat wakes up and thinks it wants to cuddle so she starts grooming the gerbil and the gerbil wakes up and it grooms back. too cute!!!! Now dont anyone go off and try this at home!!! Rats normally see smaller rodents as prey and will attack them. My rats have grown up since babies with other smaller rodents liek dwarf hamsters and mice so they have learned for generations other species are their kin. The other problem is soem species carry illnesses that dont cause them harm but cause other species harm. Like rats can carry sendai and tyzzers and not show symptoms but these can kill a gerbil. Mine have spent months in quarentine and we don't bring in new animals with out quarentining them in another building first. All this said, I have soem happy news. Seems all the critters had spring feer and now midway through summer the results of such are showing up! We have adorable young gerbils. One of them I have totally fallen in love with it is a patched nutmeg split for schimmel (aa C- eef G- Sp) The yellow has semi faded because the schimmel partially is interacting witht he spotting gene, but the nutmeg is still stronger- so we have this lovely creme coloured gerbil with black ticking. so pretty! Many of the gerbils are available- we have doves, blacks, nutmegs, honeys, rews, slate burmese, agoutis. All are very friendly and curl up in our hands. most carry a slew of colours and can be used for breeding all kinds of neet stuff liek polar fox and silver agouti and all kinds of foxes. most are AGS registered. We also have a black baby boy guinea pig with a gold spot on his face and one gold foot available. I also have used 10 gallon tanks, brand new superpet guinea pig cages, all kinds of treats, water bottles, dry food, toys, bedding etc available at approx 25% less then retail. Im in N. Illinois, west of chicago. I do NOT ship animals. If you'd like supplies I will ship supplies but shipping costs apply which kinda ruins it for the savings part enless you live in a place where stuff is really hard to find. ~A.G. Free Pet Treats, WOOHOO! http://www.rodentfancy.com/petnouveau/samples.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -----End of original message from a gangi----- -- Julian ************************************************************************ * Jackie and Julian * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * National Gerbil Society * * http://www.gerbils.co.uk/ * ************************************************************************
