I think this depends on the person. There are people I would say of whom
one pet is too much!
If you start to feel burdened by it, loose interest, find its not "fun"
anymore- then yes, you have to many. But what is too many, the actual
number- that depends on the person.
I have ten 10 gallon tanks a 15 gloon and a 20 gollon with gerbils (numbers
flucutae). I also have a varyign number of rats (50 to 75 usually), about
30-40 mice, a small colony of spiny mice, a small colony of dormice, 4
chinchillas, 4 guinea pigs, 2 cats, 2 hedgehogs, a snake, a rankins dragon,
a frog, fish, 5 syrian hamsters, a small colony of dwarf hamsters (...and a
partridge in a pear tree....). I clean cages 5 out of 7 days a week. I
consider my pets my "full time business" (though its not a business, just a
hobby. I have a pet related business though that I do run). I enjoy all
the animals, caring for them, and want to move to a good sized farm soemtime
soon =) I want an african grey parrot and capybaras and a horse.... By that
time I will no doubt by hiring someone to help with "basics" so that I can
still have time to play with all the critters everyday.
~AG
>Someone recently on the AGS (American Gerbil Society) mailing list made
>the comment that at his height of gerbil breeding he had 40 gerbils and
>it was so time/engery consuming that it was no longer fun.
>
>I have 10 gerbils setup in three tanks/clans and it is still
>(surprisingly to this gerbil novice) easy to care for them all. Blossom
>(& Bullet) are expecting any day now, so I'll have to see how the
>addition of a new litter into the mix effects my gerbil enjoyment versus
>stress level!
>
>I am just wondering from people who have or (have had in the past) many,
>many gerbils at what point does it get to be too much?
>
>Donna A.
>ABC Gerbils
>http://www.geocities.com/abcgerbils/home.html
>
>Reminder of the codes...
>:C for general care, feeding, housing, bedding, etc discussions.
>:B for breeding discussions that are less genetics intensive
>:G for long, genetics discussions of the long, "alphabet soup" type
>:M for meta discussion -- discussion on the group itself.
>:$ for selling gerbils, wanting to buy gerbils or related information.
>:I for this is completely irrelevant and "we're just babbling"
>discussions.
>:S for information on gatherings and shows.
>:Z for zoological and scientific postings that do not fit into any other
>category
>:E for this relates *only* to exotic species of gerbils
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