I'm curious about something regarding fighting gerbils.
I know that hamsters and gerbils are different but something that
happened to me with some hamsters has me scared about putting another
gerbil in with Duncan. I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on
this.
Years ago I bought 3 hamsters and kept them together for about a year.
They seemed to get along fine. I never saw them fight.
One day I came home (after they had been together for a year w/ no
problems) and I found one dead and half of his body chewed off, another
was laying there dying and the third was just walking around like he
hadn't even noticed.
I never knew the sexes of these hamsters, but I didn't have any babies
so maybe they were all the same sex.
Does anyone have any insight into what may have happened to cause them
to kill each other like that after having lived together for so long?
It was a pretty scary experience.
Regards,
Sharon
