Hi:
This sounds like that you have a classic case of carbon Monoxide in the
room. Open some Windows - ASAP, and call the Fire DEPT - then get out of the
house.
These girls are feeling listless - because they can not breath fresh air -
second hand smoking does this to them also - over time.
Remove then to an open-air source - and watch them perk up again. If so -
then call the fire and gas company - cause you have a gas loose in the
house.
CO is a deadly colorless and odorless gas released from malfunctioning
furnaces. Gerbils are sometimes used for testing presence of Co, and so are
songbirds.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerbil Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Julian and Jackie
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 7:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HELP! :-\
Amber White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>Hey all, if someone could reply back to me as quickly as possible, I'd be
>much appreciative! I came home from work tonight and found my two girl
>gerbils sleeping in separate parts of the cage (which is something they
never
>do)...I said to them jokingly, "What did you two do, have a fight?" And
then
>one of them (Chloe) came out of her nest (it was underneath one of those
>commercially-sold logs), and she was sort of staggering. I thought at
first
>that she was limping, and I got paranoid that maybe she DID fight with the
>other one, but she was just wavering, like she'd gotten herself dizzy. The
>other one (Cecilia) sort of peeped out of her nest of bedding, but made no
>move to get out (and that is TERRIBLY unusual, because normally they're
both
>out standing on their hind legs when I get home from work)...I even picked
>her up, but she hardly moved. I scooped both of them up (by this point I
was
>crying...I've never seen them so listless before!) and looked over them,
but
>there aren't any cuts or scratches on them, which would signify that they'd
>been fighting. There aren't any vets near where I live that deal with
>gerbils (boy have *I* got a bum deal), and I don't know what was wrong with
>them.
Didn't someone else recently describe a group of gerbils that all became
slow and wobbly at the same time?
--
Julian
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National Gerbil Society
http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
