>I ask the pet shop worker if she can tell
>what gender they are. She picks them up, looks at them, and says they're
>all male. OK, I bought 2 of them. On the way out the door she says
>"Well, you can always bring the back tomorrow so the owner can look at
>them and double-check." Yikes!! I called the owner this morning to ask
>if I could bring them in and have him tell me what they were. He said he
>could take his "best educated guess".
*chuckle* You just have to love pet stores that can't separate animals according to
sex. I got four of my gerbils from a local Petco which keeps all of its gerbils
together. The first time we went there, it was to get a female for one of my other
gerbils and a male. The manager wasn't exactly the world's greatest animal handler.
I got mad at him when he picked up a gerbil by the tail, but I kept it to myself. He
didn't pick up any of the others that way (thank goodness) or I'd have lost it.
Anyway, he picked up the gerbils looking for a male and he wasn't really sure when he
handed me the golden agouti I wanted to look at. I've got a little experience sexing
rats, so I felt confident I could make sure the manager was right.
==
-Kris
"Just when you think you've won the rat
race, along come faster rats."
--Unknown
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