Kathryn Skegg wrote:
> One of my pair of female gerbils died on Saturday. She had a
> respiratory infection and despite antibiotics and rehydration she died
> very quickly. I am now left with one eighteen-month old gerbil,
> Viola, by herself, and I think that this will be the last. The reason
> being that I am leaving for university in September and can't take any
> beasties with me. My family are happy to care for her when I go, but
> no extra gerbils. However since she may live to be three or four I
> don't want her to be lonely in the meantime. Although we are ginving
> her lots of love and attention, it's not the same as her having a
> cagemate. Is it possible to intoduce a gerbil of a similar age to her
> so they can live together? A younger one would be easy to introduce,
> but she would live longer than Viola and be lonely when Viola died...
> you see? Any advice would be very helpful. Kathryn
I'd try to find one about her age, if you can. It's much more likely to
work than with a young one.
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