did you ever seen anything like that happen to a gerbil??????
Spela
Deb Rebel wrote:
> >I give my gerbils cloth too. When i tear up some of my old
> >clothes and use them as cloth for cleaning or something i
> >give it to my gerbils too.
> >
> >Spela
>
> NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Cloth has threads and fibers that can wrap around limbs
> and amputate them, around necks and choke, and if ingested,
> causes painful and deadly intestinal blockages. Part of the
> thread can lodge in one part, the other try to continue down
> the intestinal passage, and it literally saws their insides
> apart! Or, just blocks the passage totally.
>
> Never EVER give your gerbils cloth. Nothing may have
> happened so far, but it's just a ticking time bomb, that is
> waiting to happen. You will be unlucky eventually, your
> gerbils will be badly hurt or dead, and it is so easily
> avoidable!
>
> Give them unscented undyed toilet tissue if you want to
> give them bedding. It is soft enough and it will be warm
> enough for them, if you give them enough, to make a nice
> nest.
>
> Deb
> Rebel's Rodent Ranch
