If you have several breeding females and you find yourself in the situation, whereby you have to foster pups. Julian states: You can only put pups with a foster mother if she has pups of her own that are less than about 20 days old. Female gerbils have a strong instinct to kill pups unless they have just given birth or are already nursing young pups. On the other hand, males will not normally hurt young pups that are introduced to them. CHANGES IN THE RESPONSES OF MALE AND FEMALE GERBILS (MERIONES UNGUICULATUS) TOWARDS TEST PUPS DURING THE PREGNANCY OF THE FEMALE: Elwood, RW, 1977, Animal Behaviour, 25, 46-51 -- Gary's web pages - http://home.talkcity.com/StudioDr/go5 Save the GML!
