LEENKNEGT-LIOEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>Hi all,
>Just an update. One of the little grey ones I bought some days ago had
>another major stroke. And the brownish one also had one today. I'm not
>used to this , so just let me do my talk . So I can lift up my mind( I
>think you have to say it that way? ;0)
>For the rest, could I avoid such strokes by taking them up frequently,
>but never longer than a half minute or something like that?
>I have a waterbottle hanging in with them, but I don't know if they use
>it. They also always have a glass with water, which I have to replace
>twice a day because of the bedding that's in it. Oz (see below) has some
>kind of waterfear, when I put some water on the tip of my finger and
>show this to him, to check if he is thirsty he really freaks out. He
>starts running as fast as he can, just as my hand is about to eat him.
>The other two don't do this but they also don't like my wet finger
>there. Does anyone know this kind of behaviour?
>THANKS for reading my little 'update'
>P.S.: For the moment they call Xander, Oz and x, I just can't choose.
>Sarah
Hi!
I presume you are talking about seizures and not strokes. A stroke in
English is an interruption of the blood supply to the brain and usually
causes serious paralysis.
The seizures you describe can be stress related but are usually harmless
and gerbils normally grow out of them.
As for your wet finger. Gerbils hate getting wet!
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Julian
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National Gerbil Society
http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
