My babes would often nip me when they were that age. They soon grew out of
it.
They don't really like being picked up. What I would do is put on a big
baggy jumper and they would find it incredibly difficult to resist crawling
up the sleeves and I could pick them out. Or I would put a jar in front of
them and again they would soon find themselves checking it out.
Now one of them just needs to see my hand in there and she (he?) will
quickly be crawling up it. The other one still needs the jar.
Also doing the blowing thing when they nipped helped.
No more nipping.
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> Hi everyone,
>
> My gerbils often nip me when I pick them up. I have to say that they are
> doing it a lot less now, but I was wondering if this was normal?
> I always make sure that I don't have any interesting food smells on my
hands
> before I handle them, and it doesn't hurt when they nip.
>
> They are 2 females, 9 weeks old.
>
> Thanks,
> Christina
>
